Satire is Used in the Portraits, Gin Lane, by William Hogarth and Untitled by Paul Kuczynsk

Artists use various kinds of satire on this artwork to strengthen the subject of suffering, poverty, destruction, and negligence. For example, the first thing to look at in a portrait is a woman sitting on the stairs. She was very focused on taking tobacco, she did not notice that her child had fallen from the rail next to her. A desperate child sitting next to her shares a bone with a dog. Sitting in front of a woman is a half naked man who died of alcohol due to starvation.

Gelles (1993) quotes William Hogarth's early 18th century etching work Gin Lane, depicting the possibility of abuse of children caused by abusive parents. A century later American social workers firmly believed that alcohol was the cause of child abuse, and this assumption brought alcohol bans in America in the 1920s (Gelles, 1993). Recognition of child abuse by Kempe and colleagues in the 1960s (Kempe et al., 1962) raises awareness that alcohol abuse and drug abuse are closely related to child abuse (Corby 1993). The earliest causal relationship model of child abuse is focused on parents' psychopathology, and the two most common diseases are believed to be depression and substance abuse (Chaffin, Kelleher, Hollenberg 1996).

One of the themes when looking at "Gin Lane" is child abuse. In the foreground, I noticed a woman I have a snuff because I let her part of her baby altogether. There is a woman who is giving baby gin to the back and to the right side further. In the middle of the page, there is a man with a baby sticking with a stick. Hogarth used this theme of child abuse to shock the audience and intimidate it. Most citizens are ill and malnourished. People who share food with animals and men that are made only of leather and bones are more examples of poverty lines. Chaos and destruction spilled from the picture. There is a man who seems to have committed suicide at the upper right of the print. This alone is enough to drive away the audience from Jin. Perhaps the most relevant event between the two prints is the scene in front of the pawnbroker. An important part of this scene is Pawn's tool.