Национальные персонификации - антропоморфизмы наций; они могут появиться и в сатирических мультфильмах, и в официальной пропаганде.

Некоторые ранние персонификации на Западе имеют тенденцию быть олицетворением национальной мудрости и богинь войны Минерва/Афина, and often took the Latin name of the ancient Roman province. Examples of this type include Britannia, Germania, Hibernia, Helvetia and Polonia.

A national personification is not the same as a national animal, and many countries have both, quite distinct from each other. The division is not, however, always watertight - for example, in some cartoons it is the national animal rather than the human personification which is used to represent a country.

Персонификации по странам

Pictures

• Britannia arm-in-arm with Uncle Sam symbolizes the British-American alliance in World War I.

• Germania representing Germany, from 1848.

• Delacroix, Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1827)

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  The Israeli Srulik.

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  The Palestinian Handala.

• 1914 poster showing Marianne, Mother Russia and Britannia.

• Famous French political cartoon from the late 1890s.

• Statue of Mother Svea representing Sweden on a building in Stockholm.

• World War I recruiting poster featuring John Bull.

• Brazilian Constitutionalist Revolution recruiting poster, showing a Bandeirante with the dictator of Brazil, Getúlio Vargas, in his hand.

• Deffroad Cymru, the Awakening of Wales (1911)

• Zé Povinho, caricature a Portuguese working class man of the 19th century

• In this 1804 French print, the woman with the Menorah represents the Jews being emancipated by Napoleon Bonaparte

See also

• National emblem for other metaphors for nations

References

1. ↑ In addition to these, a German cartoon of 1904 shows a moustached figure representing Germany, in company with John Bull and Marianne - see image in Entente Cordiale page

External links

• A scholarly case study of the evolution of Deutscher Michel