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John Bull is a national personification of the United Kingdom, especially in political cartoons and similar graphic works. He is usually depicted as a stout, middle-aged, country-dwelling, jolly and matter-of-fact man. He originated in satirical works of the early 18th century and would come to stand for English liberty in opposition to ...
Verses on the personification of the seven deadly sins - Misogyny - man in house looks out of the window at two youth in street - Woman seduces a man at night in front of his house - Flattery - woman with mirror in right hand - Deceit - woman with three children at whose feet are three sirens with fish tails
Dante has several personification characters, but prefers using real persons to represent most sins and virtues. [ 35 ] In Elizabethan literature many of the characters in Edmund Spenser 's enormous epic The Faerie Queene , though given different names, are effectively personifications, especially of virtues. [ 36 ]
The concept of liberty has frequently been represented by personifications, often loosely shown as a female classical goddess. [1] Examples include Marianne, the national personification of the French Republic and its values of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, and the female Liberty portrayed in artworks, on United States coins beginning in 1793, and many other depictions.
Germania as personification is usually depicted as a robust woman with long, flowing, reddish-blonde hair and wearing armour. She often wields the Reichsschwert ( imperial sword ), and possesses a medieval-style shield that sometimes bears the image of a black eagle on a gold field .
The prominent Athenian statesman Alcibiades has been criticized by ancient comic writers and appears in several Socratic dialogues.He enjoys an important afterlife, in literature and art, having acquired symbolic status as the personification of ambition and sexual profligacy.
Brother Jonathan is the personification of New England. He was also used as an emblem of the United States in general, and can be an allegory of capitalism . His too-short pants, too-tight waistcoat and old-fashioned style reflect his taste for inexpensive, second-hand products and efficient use of means.
Metonymy is similar to synecdoche, but instead of a part representing the whole, a related object or part of a related object is used to represent the whole. [2] Often it is used to represent the whole of an abstract idea. Example: The phrase "The king's guns were aimed at the enemy," using 'guns' to represent infantry.