1. The setting for this cartoon is the following.
- The cartoon shows the US Congress. It is supposedly a session of Congressmen.
2. The people in the front of the cartoon are the members of the House of Representatives in session.
- The people in the back row are the wealthy owners of the big monopolies in the United States at that time. The rich owners of the most important industries and means of production during the Gilded Age.
3. The cartoonist use size to make his point of view in the following way.
- Size in the cartoon is very important to depict how rich company owners are bigger and very influential in US Congress.
- The cartoonist tries to show how wealthy industrial owners can directly influence the US Representatives, trying to force their political agendas.
4. The cartoonist use caricature to make his point of view in the following way.
- The cartoonist tries to critique the huge influence these so-called Robber Barons exerted over Congressmen to do as they pleased during those years when their monopolies controlled the US economy.
- The cartoonist used humor to make people reflect on this important issue.
- The Robber Barons were wealthy owners of the American Industries during the Gilde Edge.
- The most famous Robber Barons were John F. Rockefeller, owner of the Standard Oil Company, and Andrew Carnegie, owner of the Steel Company.
We conclude that cartoonists played an important role in journalism, trying to make citizens reflect on important social, political, and economical issues in America.
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