1984 Propaganda Poster

In the book “1984” written by Jorge Orwell, it follows a man named Winston smith who is a middle aged and lives in an authoritarian society ruled by extremists. He comes to realise that these leaders and system needs to be over throne, while on his mission to over through the government he metes a woman who also believes that they must over through the government. In the end they get tricked into turning themselves in and constantly get beat so badly they start to believe that the government is not bad but good and must stay in power to uphold society because they don’t want to be beat, they get reintegrated into society but where, so brain fried that they didn’t have to be monitored anymore and completely believe that they love Big Brother. In the propaganda poster above there is a use of multiple kinds of propaganda such as “plain folk” where they had a man that seems to be like any ordinary person you would see walking by you on the street, someone with, “the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features” (3 Orwell). This man is looking into your soul from whatever angle you look at him, underneath him is the saying BIG BROTHER WILL PROTECT YOU In all caps almost like its screaming it at you. Another one used would be “Glittering Generality”, with the use of a captivating statement like big brother will protect you. This statement shows that the government will help the people in any way they can but not stating what they will help them with. This makes the people overlook the fact that they didn’t get any kind of context as to how because they where so happy that they were going to be protected. To sum up everything that has been said there is a vary deep meaning behind any kind of poster seen you will see, they are made to entice you with something that they know everyone wants in there life whether it be world peace or a cheese burger.

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