The role of cartoons in portraying the reality: political cartoons based on “october 26th political crisis”

Abstract

Mass media influence the people and the political situation of the country. According to that Political cartoons are an important part of any newspaper. Newspapers involve the influence of knowledge of people and the channel comparatively making more credibility among them. The cartoon is an art that conveying messages and emotions through satire and critical way with the aim to reach the people in the simplest way of communication. Mostly cartoons express the unstable political situations, corruptions, and the current social, economic, cultural, and political situations. A political cartoon is a cartoon that argues about an issue or a political situation. This study tries to express how political cartoons are impacted one of the most important parts of any newspaper. And also the study tries to find the role of political cartoons in portraying reality. Relief Theory used to explain the theoretical platforms to reveal the significance value of the cartoons. Qualitative and Quantitative analysis used for this study. Content Analysis was used to identify the themes contained in the cartoon's depictions. Audience The analysis also used to deal with the views of the readers. And cartoonists are interviewed for this study and 30 questionnaires distributed to the readers. Considering these facts, this study uses the purposive sampling method as it primarily focuses on the Role of Cartoons in portraying the reality: Political cartoons based on “October 26th political crisis” in Newspaper (Special reference with Daily mirror cartoons (October 26th, 2018 – December 2018)).