For this Research Task I chose the second example, being the most striking of them all, even though the third is more relatable and the first can be written more on.

The illustration essentially represents the action and reaction of getting drunk. It, as made out to be by the clothes and to a large extent, the colours suggests, is either mocking the higher class (although it seems to be a bit more on the relatable side to just be mocking it) or targeting the higher class as its audience.

The first picture shows a young aristocrat and his friends indulging in bottles of “Sherry” and “Port” (two types of wine that were intensely guzzled and even developed by the high and royal classes during the 18th and 19th centuries according to articles I read) and what seems like passion fruit on a plate but I’m not entirely sure what its significance is.

What happens in the next illustration and thus the next morning is a hangover, represented by the two little devils with what I think are sashes or tags, reminiscent of the Sherry and the Port from the night before, beating the young man’s head which is representative of the cause for his apparently quite agonising headache. What happened in between was a night’s worth of sleep after a rigorous bout of wine drinking and passionfruit eating.

The tone, both from the style and the elements, is such that the characters can be seen in a far more romanticised. raw and humorously vulnerable light, in contrast to how they’d appear in real life, along with exaggerated facial features, expressions and a lot of drama in their actions.