Question

Explain why the artist has partryed the nobleman as the spider and the peasant ?

chapter : the French revolution ​

Answer 1

Answer:

'The Nobleman is the Spider and the Peasant is the Fly' is an engraving produced by Jacques Lagniet. ... The nobleman is portrayed as a spider because he sits there and accepts everything the peasant has to offer. The peasant as fly because he does hard work and suffer during bad harvest and price rising.

Answer 2

Answer:

The spider feeds on the fly, whereas the fly does hard labour for finding its food. Similarly, in 18th century, France, the nobles lived off the labour of the peasants. The social reality of the time was that peasants had to pay feudal dues as well as rendering services for the nobles.

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