Statue+of+Liberty

= = **World’s Memorial Freedom ** Statue of Liberty **Introduction: **

 The Statue of Liberty also known as //Liberty Enlightening the World//, is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on [|Liberty Island] in New York Harbor , designed by [|Frédéric Bartholdi] and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing [|Libertas], the Roman goddess who as known as freedom. She bears a torch and a // [|tabula ansata] // (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the [|American Declaration of Independence]. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an icon of freedom and of the United States.

**Design and construction **


 * **Origin **

 In 1869, Bartholdi finished the first sketch of Statue of Liberty, and he got ready to begin the sculpture project. After that he visited United State in order to get the support from government for the project, but United State did not find the value of the project yet.



The project finally begin in 1874, in order to get attention from people in the 100th [|American Declaration of Independence] exposition in 1876, Bartholdi show out the hand of Liberty which is bearing the torch. As he wished, all the guests in the exposition were frightened by a forefinger which tall as 2.44m. After that the people of United State became very interesting about the sculpture and the government allowed the request of the president to accept the gift.

On 6th July 1884, The Statue of Liberty was officially became the gift to United State.


 * **Design, style, and **

Bartholdi and Laboulaye, the designer of Eiffel Tower, discussed about the way to express American Liberty. In the American history, there are two women who were frequently used as cultural symbols of the nation. One, Columbia, was seen as an embodiment of the United States in the manner that Britannia was identified with the United Kingdom and Marianne came to represent France. The other signification is Libertas, the goddess of freedom widely worshipped in ancient Rome, especially among emancipated slaves. At that time Liberty was on most of coin in the United State.

The models had some common point that; A woman wearing a //stola// and //pella// (gown and cloak, common in depictions of Roman goddesses) and holding a torch aloft.

Bartholdi made alterations in the design as the project evolved. Bartholdi considered having Liberty hold a broken chain, but decided this would be too divisive in the days after the Civil War. The erected statue does rise over a broken chain, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground. Bartholdi was initially un <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">certain of what to place in Liberty's left hand; he settled on a [|//tabula ansata//], a keystone-shaped tabletused to evoke the concept of law. Though Bartholdi greatly admired the United States Constitution, he chose to inscribe "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" on the tablet, thus associating the date of the country's Declaration of Independence with the concept of liberty. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">（see more information about symbol of Liberty） <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">The other Statue of Liberty in the world **

=[|Liberty Statue (Budapest)]= =[|Monument of Liberty, Chişinău]= =[|Monument of Liberty, Istanbul]= =[|Monument of Liberty, Ruse]=


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">Do you know? **


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">Lightning **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The Statue of the Liberty was made by a lot of copper sheet, and that let the sculpture became a big conducting object which has 93m height. Since 1886, The Statue of Liberty got attack by lightning more than 600 times <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 21.3333px;">Connection to the //Anthem// **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> In the book "Anthem" which is written by Ayn Rand, Liberty is the name of a girl that the protagonist. For the first time that I heard the name of the girl is Liberty, it became a foreshadowing of the book for me. The Statue of Liberty known well as a symbol of disseminating freedom spirit. In the //Anthem//, it also is a monument that disseminating a spirit, “We” spirit.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The protagonist, Equality 7-2521, is a street sweeper which is <span style="color: #313131; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">propitious to <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">become one of the Council of Scholar. The first meet of Equality with the Liberty 5-3000,a girl that change her name to Gaia at the last of the story, is when Equality sweeps the street in front of the Homes of Peasants beyond the city. “Their body was straight and thin as a blade of iron. Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.” There are words which were used by Equality to describe the Liberty5-3000; there is a beautiful, holy, and shining description. There are a lot of names for a girl, why there is “Liberty”? According to my own mind, that is a kind of foreshadowing that she is the conflict point that affects the freedom to stand up and fight the fate. She is so beautiful, so different, so glory. As same as her name, she is the [|Libertas] of Equality. She is the most important element that makes Equality want to fight for freedom.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> “We are one in all and all in one. There no men but only the Great WE, one, indivisible and forever” these are words that were cut in the marble which is disseminating the “We” mind. These words are the words which the people in the society require to repeat to their selves whenever they are tempted. It is a common point to the Statue of Liberty; they are monuments which are disseminating a mind to the people. The difference is the minds that they are trying to disseminate up. The Marble in the book is a monument that binds the people’s ego, and that all is in order to let the <span class="wikipagemenutitle" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Council Based Society work normally. The Statue of the liberty is a monument that stimulates people to be freedom and work up the society free. They show that how a deadly object that effects on a human and his lively mind. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">