Exploring Societal Issues Through Banksy's "Sirens of the Lambs"

One theme that seems to appear consistently throughout Banksy’s oeuvre is “the inevitable loss of childhood and innocence” (Tichy). Those words were used to describe one possible interpretation of the piece Girl with Balloon, but Napalm and Dismaland are some other Banksy pieces of which the same could be said. Another theme that the notorious prankster frequently references in his work is that of capitalistic corruption of social values. Each of the aforementioned artworks could be said to represent an overlap of both of these ideas, in that they contain elements that seem to criticize the…