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In order to create this portfolio, I chose the theme of Art and Protest as a guideline because, on the one hand, I love art and, on the other hand, protest can reach all types of audiences using a variety of media, written or pictorial. I would refer here to the philosopher Stéphane Hessel for whom indignation or protest is "the basis of all great revolutions". We can therefore see that art and protest are factors of transformation, evolution and often progress. I have chosen some texts and a work of art to answer the following question: Is art useful to make us change? I will use 4 documents that deal with different themes: an extract from Handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood, on sexism, an extract from George Orwell's Animal Farm, on challenging totalitarianism an open letter from Chief Seattle's, defending nature, a sculpture, Supermarket Lady by Duane Hanson, which criticises consumer society. Margaret Atwood has chosen to denounce sexism in the invented republic of Gilead through Handmaid's tale, which is a dystopia. I have chosen an extract from chapter 23 of her novel because it seems to me to be striking and perfectly summarises the dehumanization of women. Offred's sentence "We are two-legged wombs, that's all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices." illustrates the fact that women are taken for animals who no longer dispose of their bodies and exist only for reproduction. This feminist work was successful but also shocking. It is the controversy that starts the debate. Even if some passages are shocking,, they make us aware of the female condition in a sexist world. This novel cannot leave us indifferent when we know that a certain number of communities, like the Amish, have practices that are also sexist. We also understand better the suffering of women in Afghanistan or more recently the concern of American women who defend the right to abortion, and more generally to the freedom of their bodies. I then selected an extract from George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm, because I thought it was relevant to show that the art of parody and the staging of animals, which had already been used by Aesop, are effective in denouncing, as in this novel, totalitarianism and its dangers. Moreover, the political satire which was that of Stalin's communist regime and which is still relevant today, is a real warning against a type of government that we could have. I would like to quote the passage from Napoleon's speech in which the pig Napoleon takes power and sets up a dictatorship: "The animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing 'Beasts of England', and receive their orders for the week; but there would be no more debates." This is a typical dictatorial speech that suppresses free speech and reinforces patriotism. We can see from this extract that the whole art of Orwell's parody is to get a message across so that we are not manipulated. My third choice was Chief Seattle's famous open letter of 1851 to the President of the United States - Franklin Pierce - opposing the purchase of about a million acres of land from Native American peoples for exploitation. Through the art of the speech, he emphasised that Man belongs to the Earth and not the other way around. This means that if the Earth does not belong to us, it cannot be for sale. "If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. He replaces Man who is a product of Nature within Nature. In a poetic and unexpected way for his interlocutors, he restores the importance of Nature: "The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. He denounces human responsibility for the destruction of the environment, which is why this text is quoted again in our time. We can see the impact it can have on readers and environmentalists today. This text is all the more impactful because the leader uses simple words to defend ideas that remind us of certain basic truths such as "Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste". This is before the emergence of ecology, a call to action to save our planet. The last document I chose is a photo of a well-known sculpture by Duane Hanson, "Supermarket Lady", which denounces the "American model" of mass consumption. He chose a middle class woman, shown in curlers and slippers, pushing a supermarket trolley overflowing with industrialised goods. This woman is a caricature of an American woman from the 1960s, overweight and representing the excessive consumption of this middle class. The sculptor has chosen to install this life-size work in a museum in direct contact with the viewer in order to challenge him. This person could be any middle-class American, and the viewer can easily identify with the character. The visual impact of this hyper-realistic sculpture dispenses with words because the message is striking. It is by being confronted with one's own image that one reacts, and this is probably the sculptor's objective in reaching a large audience. How can you not react and change when you see a representation of what you already are or what you could become? Artistic works, whether they please or shock us, never leave us indifferent. The rape of Offred by the Commander assisted by his wife is an example. The hyper-realistic sculpture of a housewife that reflects our own image captures everyone's attention. Secondly, they invite us to look at reality differently. Through parody, George Orwell makes us observe human society from the outside. And then, by reading Chief Seattle's letter, the 'great leader' of the United States can remember that humans are just one of many species on Earth that he does not own. Finally, by altering our view of the world, Art prompts us to react in order to change. As we have seen from these different examples, art is particularly powerful and effective in making us change because it provokes reactions in the reader or viewer. It is through art and protest that we can fight against sexism, totalitarianism, environmental destruction or excessive consumption and junk food.