Monday, 20 October 2014
The next image is a lithograph of a closed fist with old style shackles around it. It was here I began to think about religious oppression. From my research, religion dominated peoples thoughts and actions at the time. Parents couldn't use contraception because the church was against it. As a result, families were large which made things very hard for them. They could barely feed or cloth themselves as a result of this, which essentially made peoples lives overly harsh. This made them despise their situation even more. The closed fist could represent their anger while the chains are in a cross shape which could be a religious reference. Yet it isn't directly related to the situation. Similar to the eye etching, I chose this image because it can be interpreted in many different ways.
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