Comparing The Bayeux Tapestry And The Portable War Memorial

Both the Bayeux Tapestry and the Portable War Memorial try depict or show just what the war looked like to the artists in different lights, while one glorified or showed the victory war can bring the other showed how war affects the present, and the awful side that can come from it. The Bayeux Tapestry is showing the events leading up to the Norman conquest in the Battle of Hastings. This work presents an accurate representation of a historical moment. It is from a Norman point of view, in that it favorably represents the Normans and focuses and them more throughout the work. It is believed to have belonged to Odo the half brother of William, Duke of Normandy. The work shows seventy-scenes, leading up to the Battle of Hastings, the Battle