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General Hancock Gulliver, How Do You Like It As Far As You’ve Got?”

Topic:
Superb Hancock and Awful Democrats
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
Thomas Nast
Date:
July 31, 1880, p. 484
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The theme of A. B. Frost's "The Democratic Trojan Horse" is replicated by his artistic colleague Thomas Nast in this cartoon, appearing in the same issue of Harper's Weekly as the previous illustration. Their message is that Democratic presidential nominee Winfield Hancock, while a giant in his own stature, is controlled by the disreputable and dangerous forces of the Democratic party. Here, Nast translates a widely recognizable motif from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) into a commentary on the 1880 presidential race. General Hancock appears in uniform as the title character in a scene from the beginning of the book when the shipwrecked Gulliver awakes to find himself bound by the miniature Lilliputians. The quote reinforces the twin notions of Hancock's potential strength and his willing submissiveness to keep it in check.
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