Join The Marines Propaganda Poster Analysis

My partner, Alexia, and I had to make a propaganda poster about the military. We decided that we wanted to design a poster that included symbols and other words connecting to fighting for your own country. When we were trying to come up with a theme we thought about the Marines. For the people seeing this poster, we wanted them to join the military/Marines and tell others so it could be a chain. Some images provided was one of them being an American flag. We chose this because we used the military in our poster and wanted to represent how the patriotism fit with having people fight for their own country. This connects to nationalism because we wanted people that were to see our poster to think that it would help their own country and they would …show more content…
The slogan that we came up with was, “BE THE FIRST TO FIGHT” “JOIN THE MARINES” The slogan was the big part in our poster because of symbolism that it resembles. This is because we wanted to add something that most people had about fighting for your own country, but also adding a little extra. This is why we added “Join the Marines” because it shows a particular group to go to but also a great one. The slogan we created was to have people look at it and see the color and empowerment that it gives to people who want to go into the military. Militarism/Nationalism was resembled in this slogan because joining the military is a big deal because you don’t know what’s going to happen to you and it shows a lot of character in the people that see this poster and want to join. The nationalism comes in with showing your country that you want to help fight and show your patriotic side through a different way. As you can see, the propaganda poster that we made was intended to get people engaged in their country and understand what the military actually is. Also, we made the poster have both M and N themes because it would show the importance for others seeing the poster and how it connects with other things in the