Analyse two posters produced during the two world wars. Discuss the impact of propaganda on its intended audience and how this is achieved.

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Analyse two posters produced during the two world wars. Discuss the impact of propaganda on its intended audience and how this is achieved.

In this essay I am going to analyse two posters and discuss the impact of propaganda of each and its intended audiences and also how it is achieved.                

Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation aimed at serving an agenda. At its root, the denotation of propaganda is 'to propagate (actively spread) an ‘insight or point of view'. The most common use of the term (historically) is in political contexts; in particular to refer to certain efforts sponsored by governments or political groups. A message does not have to be untrue to qualify as propaganda. Some propaganda includes significant and deliberate falsehoods, and tells so many lies that it becomes highly misleading. The aim of propaganda is to influence people's opinions actively, rather than to merely communicate the facts about something. For example, propaganda might be used to gain either support or disapproval of a certain position, rather than to simply present the position. What separates propaganda from "normal" communication is in the subtle, often sneaky, ways that the message attempts to shape opinion. For example, propaganda is often presented in a way that attempts to deliberately inrage a strong emotion.

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One of the eras the used propaganda was World War One and Two as they both used posters in a way to get human emotion an uses it to twist the thoughts of the people into believing that everything was ok and that if they gave there money to the wartime efforts that it would help considerably. Propaganda is still used in this way because when Iraq were allegedly holding onto weapons of mass destruction the British and Americans used propaganda to make this feel like a more dire allegation that was almost definitely true.

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