Preview

Textual Coverage vs. Visual Images of Chemical Weapons in the British Press from 1915-1918

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
3024 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Textual Coverage vs. Visual Images of Chemical Weapons in the British Press from 1915-1918
Dr. Zoghlami Hanan

Textual Coverage versus Visual images of chemical weapons in the British Press (1915_1918)

Islem Hammami Marwa Bouani Nadia Rouabeh

Textual Coverage versus Visual images of chemical weapons in the British Press (1915_1918)

Outline:
Introduction
I. Artistic production: Visual images: 1. Historical overview 2. Types of images: Printed images of chemical weapons a) Cartoons b) Photographs c) Posters II. Textual coverage of chemical weapons: a cogent means? III. “Mute witnesses”: a new propaganda machine during the Gas War? IV. The interrelationship between the verbal and the visual V. Some illustrations of interpreted visual images in the British press during the First World War Conclusion

Textual Coverage versus Visual images of chemical weapons in the British Press (1915_1918)

Introduction:
The advent of the Gas during the First World War proved to be an armament of total war dividing it into three major phases during which the Britons as part of the Allied forces were affected to a great amount physically, emotionally as well as mentally until the decision for retaliation took place. Every segment of the British society whispered about their respirators the only way for them to survive in chaotic environment of poisonous and asphyxiating gasses. Children, adults, politicians and soldiers were altogether trained to wear masks for fear to suffocate till death in the silence of a murderous war. Yet, this terrible and alarming situation under which lived the Britons for almost 4 years did not prevent journalists and artists from accomplishing their vocation. Distressed though they were from this vile weapon, they never missed room to insist upon their devotion,

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Powerful Essays

    The picture with the three British prisoners was perhaps the most interesting. The photograph displayed three British combatants, lined up in front of a camera along with some Germans in the background. The Germans made each of the three combatants wear a set of silly head coverings, most likely to embarrass the three men. It can only suggested that the three men were forced to wear them to deliver a good propaganda photograph for the German war effort. Other photographs in Toland's book also showed the effects of war and the hell that came with it. Some showed valor and spirit while others showed the death and decay that comes with war. The photos shown in the text reveal emotions in a way that the words of the text could…

    • 1395 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    wold war one year 12 core

    • 681 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Life in the trenches were constant of boredom, routine, “shell shock”, disease and vermin and the “stench of death”…

    • 681 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Erich Maria Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front explains the brutal and filthy life inside the trenches during the first world war. The story revolves around high school friends who through nationalism and propaganda are convinced to join the war effort. However they did not get the heroic lifestyle they were expecting. Instead they got years filled with death, despair, and fear as they continued to fight and attempt to stay alive. Readers will follow the story and learn the true horrors on the battlefield and how even in a state of hopelessness people will still be human.…

    • 100 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    World War 2 officially started on September 1, 1939, after Germany invaded Poland, and it continued until 1945 when both Japan and Germany surrendered. 16 million American soldiers served in World War 2, along with the civilian supporters that worked behind the scenes for the war effort.…

    • 1210 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The war brought about new technology such as poison gas. Remarque presents the idea of improved technology to portray the instability that it brought to the soldiers. Remarque writes, “They are always completely calm, that is predominant in them; and if they are not really calm they become so” (Remarque 120). This description shows how a soldier recollects what brings him peace and how the war has altered his tranquility. Another, circumstance that Remarque magnifies is the effects of poison gas on the soldier. For example, “I remember the awful sight in the hospital: the gas patients who in a day-long suffocation cough up their burnt lung clots” (Remarque 68). This description represents the terrible effects that poison gas had on the soldiers if it had not already killed them in a battle. In all, Remarque captures the harm that done to the soldiers physically and mentally through the use of technologically advanced…

    • 1709 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Source C shows a group of German soldiers positioned in a trench in northern France. The soldiers in the trench are holding a heavy machine gun and have an advanced gas mask over their faces. This tells me that they are prepared for a gas attack. This photo was taken three years into the war which tells me that gas attacks became more frequent and therefore they felt the need to improve the gas masks to be more prepared. The source is German, and on one hand it is good because it shows us the features of the German trenches and how they are prepared for the attacks and artillery fire but on the other hand it is likely to be staged because the camera is right in front of the machinery so if it was an English source the Germans would have shot the opposition. It is also likely to be staged because it looks more like a whole in a ground than a trench. We do not know the purpose of the source, who produced it, or what it was used for and if there is any other information surrounding it in the museum. Machine guns killed a lot of people in the war but gas attacks also killed many soldiers, there a two types of gas attacks; a chlorine gas attack (turns all the air in your lungs to water, forcing you to drown) and a mustard gas attack (which burns all of your mouth) the soldiers could either have just experienced a gas attack, about to set one off or are preparing themselves for one. The fact that the gas attack method is still being used by 1917 shows it was a useful method and killed a lot of people. Source C has informed me about the use of gas attacks in the trenches in 1917 and it also gives me evidence of other key information about trench warfare in world war one. All though it only shows me the German trench, I can still predict that British trench warfare is similar and therefore it is a useful source.…

    • 686 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Poisonous Gases Dbq

    • 341 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Poisonous gases changed the experiences of the people in the war for the worse. Breaking on impact, the canisters released yellowish green fumes that wafted slowly toward the French and African troops near the Belgian town of Ypres. As the fumes reached the Allied forces, soldiers realized the cloud was poisonous chlorine gas. Quoted in Dooly's Great Weapons of World War I, one French doctor at Ypres expressed his horror: “I had the impression that was looking through green glasses. At the same time, I felt the action of the gas upon my respiratory system; it burned in my throat, caused pains in my chest, and made breathing all but impossible. I spat blood and suffered from dizziness. We all thought we were lost.” ("Technology.") Canisters…

    • 341 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Ww2 Film Evidence

    • 720 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The message of each picture could be misleading and is only the artist’s interpretation of what happened. The image could be trying to persuade the viewer to think in a certain way which could also be unreliable in trying to find out about world war two and it could make it difficult to see if the contents of the image are factual or just somebody’s opinion of fact during world war…

    • 720 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Propaganda In Ww1

    • 149 Words
    • 1 Page

    Women were also largely part of the war effort, although they were not allowed to enlist as soldiers, they helped by enlisting as nurses, treating those wounded from battle, or by working the jobs men did before the war, supplying ammunition to be used. Propaganda was also used to persuade women into sending their sons or husbands to enlist in the army. The government persuaded women to take jobs in factories, creating ammunition and weapons, by saying they should ‘do their part’ while men were fighting in trenches. Propaganda aimed at recruits for nurses targeted maternal instincts and religious beliefs, for instance in the red cross ‘help’ poster. The woman in the poster has her arms outstretched, standing in front of a cross, resembling…

    • 149 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Long before the time of the duel among Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, years of political differences between the two men were commonly seen, and ultimately as a result had staggering effects on the development of the novice nation and the occurrence of the duel in the first place. Opposition between Hamilton and Burr initially arose in 1791 when Burr successfully seized position in the United States Senate from Philip Schuyler, Hamilton’s father-in-law.…

    • 73 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The grey sun seemed to be making it’s way up over the broken backs of the hills. The silhouettes of the men suddenly became clear. Faces dirty with mud, blood or anything that could be found in the trenches. Shoes without soles, shirts without sleeves we are the men of Ypres once of boy of 17 his only thoughts were of women. Now a man of 20 his eyes only peeled for the shadow of a man, the point of a bayonet, the fright full image of gas consuming a comrade’s lungs. Me and the other men had not yet experienced a gas attack but the stories spread across the trenches…

    • 436 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Ww2 Propaganda Analysis

    • 418 Words
    • 2 Pages

    There are many techniques that were used in world war II but the most techniques that were used were; Plain folks, Bandwagon, and Appeal to fear.…

    • 418 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Fatigue. Explosions. Blood. Guts. Death. These are only a few of the horrid images that the World War I soldiers endeavoured. Serving in war is not for the faint of heart or those considered not able to stomach the sight of gore and dead bodies every step. In the story, All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, this story depicts these exact horrors during Remarque’s time spent on the German battlefront. Deaths are of the norm. Soldiers become immune to the smell of rotting bodies and bits and pieces of flesh everywhere. Although comradery is a positive aspect of war, corruption and lost youth outweigh comradeship, therefore making war a negative circumstance.…

    • 1317 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Overall the impact of the First World War was great. In this paper I will be evaluating and analysing 3 representations and using my own knowledge to discover British civilians reactions to their experiences of the Second World War. After analysing all 3 representations and using my own knowledge, I will make a judgement as to which one I think best represents the civilians reactions to the Second World War.…

    • 897 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Wollaeger, Mark A. “Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945” 20 March 1985…

    • 1269 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays