The Great War Propaganda

This poster shows a father sitting on a chair with his daughter in his lap while his son plays with toy soldiers. The daughter is asking her father, “Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?” The poster was probably designed to play on the guilt and pride of men. It accomplished this by saying that if you don't volunteer to join the war, you won't have anything to tell your children about how you helped your country. The purpose of this poster was to entice young men to volunteer for the war. What helped this was the young children looking up to their father and the fathers guilty appearance, The setting of the poster is after the war, when he can't just go back and change his mind. This is more of a positive type of propaganda because it
isn't making fun of or hurting a group. I think that this poster was successful because everyone wants their children to be proud of them. Unlike the previous poster, this one portrays Japanese people as cartoonish. The man in this poster has huge teeth and ears, which were common characteristics in many similar posters. The purpose of this poster was to discourage people from talking in the open because they could never know who was listening in. They accomplished this by saying that when you talk carelessly, anyone could hear you and the war would be lost because of you. I think that this poster was successful because nobody wants to be the cause of the war being lost.