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Goya The Shooting On May 3 Essay

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Painting by Goya “The Shooting on May Third” represents the time when Napoleon’s army was taking over Spain in 1808. Napoleon makes a false alliance with King of Spain Charles IV. He asked the king to provide route to his army for conquering Portugal but later on he betrayed the king by attacking Spain. As a result, Spaniards begins a rebel on May 2, in order to control the things and for dividing the freedom fighters, army starts annihilation. Through the picture, artist has succeeded in representing the fear and terror of war. The most noticeable thing for me in this image was the piles of dead bodies and blood that was all over the ground. It was interesting to notice that how human complicit the act of violence, they are ready to kill
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