World War One Poster Analysis

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Using five of the sources provided I hope to fully explain the method in which each poster encourages men at this time to join up in the war. And to explain that these examples of propaganda are useful for historians on an international scale. Source one is a poster portraying a child sitting on her father's lap, and another child that his father’s feet asking her father what he did in the ‘Great War.’ This particular poster encourages men to join the army in four different ways. Firstly, in the poster it is written, “YOU,” in capital letters and underlined, this directly involves everybody who views the poster, making them feel a special part in the war. Number two, the poster depicts a man telling his child about what he did in the Great War, which greatly appeals to men’s sense of pride on a local level. It would have made them want to be in the position of the man …show more content…

The next line is, “wants you, join your country, God save the King.” By saying “Britons want you,” and pointing at the audience the poster, as I said in my previous statement, involves the person regarding it and makes them feel like it is morally correct and somewhat obligatory in society for them to join, as “Britons”, their fellow citizens want them to join. By saying “Join your country God save the King,” the poster makes the reader feel a certain obligation to join the army as if his country and king want him to. It also provides the man with a reason to go, to save his king and country. Source four very plainly shows a mother and her two children sitting by the windowsill watching troops walk away with the title, “woman of Britain say go.” This, very simply, makes a man want to join the army because it's a display of how even those close to them know of a certain obligation regarding war effort and how much it would please them. It is a kind of emotional

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