Gorilla Propaganda Symbolism Essay

Many of the propaganda posters of World War One have symbolism to persuade the viewers to be a participant in the war. One of the propaganda posters made in Germany has a snake with eight arrows and the number eight, entangling the snake. We can presume that the snake is the Alliances and the eight symbolizes the war bond that the Germans were merchandising at that time. You can see that the arrows are piercing the serpent, which symbolizes that the money that is put in the war bond will support the army of Germany to annihilate their opponent. Other posters such as the Australia 's have a gorilla with hands painted red with blood reaching out to the world. In the posters you can observe that Europe is already stained with gore. The gorilla …show more content…
In most of the posters from Australia, they are making it a mission to induce the viewers to enlist. For example, in one of the poster, there is a man with a big gash on his head in the trenches full of deceased comrades blowing his trumpet for recruitment while the ominous shadow of the foes marches forward. Even though there are an abundance of posters trying to convince others to enlist, there are others that call out to buy war bonds to help the country’s soldiers in the battlefield. American propaganda posters of funding the war bonds dominate other types of posters. In America, there was a poster of the Statue of Liberty pointing at the viewers telling them to purchase a Liberty Bond. Sometimes, the poster would instruct the citizens of the country to conserve and preserve food. In a Canadian poster, there is a soldier pointing at the word food on the poster and declaring that there should be more food for them since they are saving us from the war and at the bottom it is written that “well fed soldiers will win the war”. Many artist of the posters would try to solve the country’s …show more content…
Some countries needed more men to enlist while others needed the populace who are not fighting to still be involved in the war by working and some might need the citizen to buy the war bonds. For example, in Australia, there is two men who are cornered by the troop of Germany with the word “quick” written on the bottom. In this poster, the poster’s role was to prompt men to enlist. In Russia there is a poster with three men, a soldier and two other men who seem to be a worker. Even though I could not read the content, I believe that the poster is telling the reader that even if you are not in the war literally, there are still ways to help and support their army. In America, who did not participate in the war until later on, wanted their people to buy war bonds called the Liberty Bond. (There is a poster that has a soldier holding on to a rifle with words that says “buy more Liberty Bonds” at the bottom.) The propaganda posters were made to persuade the people to help or participate in a the war in any way