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