The pig that has the golden tail on Félicien Rops' Pornokrates can be understood as a sign of lavishness and lucre guiding the lady, whose only justification is her sightlessness as she paces along a sandstone stage showing pomp and egotism. However, the symbolic sense of Pornokrates can be turn around in a way that the pig represents a man, brutish and unintelligent. This figure of the pig, in addition to those of the marionette is characteristic for numerous of Rops' contemporaries. Depicting contemporary life so frankly he revealed hidden aspects of his era.
Ropes is truly expressive in describing the brutal aspects of modern female, her steely glimpse and her malice towards man, not veiled, not masked, but obvious.
Carnal knowledge is sin and guides both male and female to perdition. The ideas of the kind, that emerged from Catholicism, were at that time being revitalized by Schopenhauer and Rops gave them images with unprecedented eloquence and determination. Rops accepted the thought that female is the personification of vice and the male’s corrupter, even though he was inherently tending to take better view of women, he undoubtedly did not get a aggressive misogynistic pleasure in the distress of female sex that we observe from Hunt. Women for Rops are the same as prostitutes and their love leads to disease and fatality, however if women are tools of the evil spirit, they are as well his sufferers and deserve sympathy.
Through observing W.H.Hunt's piece of art The Awakening Conscience and Pornokrates created by F. Rops in terms of their modern world we may subtract some ideas about the character of relationships between sexes in the Victorian epoch. The first one, there existed important alterations in the man perception of female. The second one is, that class had a great deal to do with sex relationships and view on women.
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