How Far Do Sources 2 And 3 Challenge The Impression Of The Land League Given By The Cartoonist In Source 1
How far do Sources 2 and 3 challenge the impression of the Land League given by the cartoonist in Source 1? Explain your answer, using the evidence of sources 1, 2 and 3.
The Land League was a political Irish organisation which contained nationalistic members that campaigned for land and economic reform, especially for peasants. It worked to achieve the abolition of landlordism and wanted to allow tenant farmers to own their land, therefore would have resulted in differing opinions and diverse impressions of the Land League. These disputes are shown in Sources 1, 2 and 3.
Source 1 presents a negative impression of the Land League. The source is a cartoon in “Punch” magazine, published in 1881, that shows Gladstone fighting the Land league – represented by the Irish devil fish. The provenance of this source leads me believe that as it is a British magazine, the source could have been based on a biased opinion because a lot of landlords were British. Showing the Land League as this fearful and beastly creature suggests that the Land League engaged in violent and intimidating tactics to achieve control. Its many tentacles also suggests that power and influence was widely exerted and its tight grip on the surrounding rock shown in the cartoon shows that the Land League was an extremely strong movement and something which would not back down easily. Overall I can infer an impression of fear and aggression and shows the Land League’s increasing dominance as it becomes harder to control.
This impression is clearly challenged by sources 2 and 3. Source 2 is an 1879 propaganda poster that states the aims of the Land League, because it is directly from a Land League poster this source is most likely to be reliable. Source 2 gives off the impression that the Land League is in fact organised and “temperate”. This disputes the extremely intemperate devil fish that represented the Land League in Source 1. This challenging of Source 1’s violent impression shown In Source 2 is
The Land League was a political Irish organisation which contained nationalistic members that campaigned for land and economic reform, especially for peasants. It worked to achieve the abolition of landlordism and wanted to allow tenant farmers to own their land, therefore would have resulted in differing opinions and diverse impressions of the Land League. These disputes are shown in Sources 1, 2 and 3.
Source 1 presents a negative impression of the Land League. The source is a cartoon in “Punch” magazine, published in 1881, that shows Gladstone fighting the Land league – represented by the Irish devil fish. The provenance of this source leads me believe that as it is a British magazine, the source could have been based on a biased opinion because a lot of landlords were British. Showing the Land League as this fearful and beastly creature suggests that the Land League engaged in violent and intimidating tactics to achieve control. Its many tentacles also suggests that power and influence was widely exerted and its tight grip on the surrounding rock shown in the cartoon shows that the Land League was an extremely strong movement and something which would not back down easily. Overall I can infer an impression of fear and aggression and shows the Land League’s increasing dominance as it becomes harder to control.
This impression is clearly challenged by sources 2 and 3. Source 2 is an 1879 propaganda poster that states the aims of the Land League, because it is directly from a Land League poster this source is most likely to be reliable. Source 2 gives off the impression that the Land League is in fact organised and “temperate”. This disputes the extremely intemperate devil fish that represented the Land League in Source 1. This challenging of Source 1’s violent impression shown In Source 2 is