In Victoria Stewart’s propaganda poster, it shows an image of Old Major being slaughtered by a human with a bloody knife and a gash wound. The words “four legs good, two legs bad”, are on the top and bottom of the poster. She used four strategies for her poster including fear, name calling, glittering generalities and common enemy. Her main strategy in this propaganda poster is fear because the first image readers will see is the dead animal with knife. They will be very scared then they will read the motto and realize the must stay away from the heartless humans. The next strategy Victoria used was glittering generalities, the catchphrase is “four legs good, two legs bad”, although this is not a very complex piece of information the message is much larger then is may seem. The message is all animals or things with four legs are good and humans, a two legged creature, is bad and evil. Common enemy is the next strategy used by Victoria, the faceless human is a representation of all humans. The unknown humans are the real animals that then kill for their own survival. Humans are the enemy. The final strategy was name calling, the motto is “four legs good, two legs bad”, which is direct name call to humans because it is saying thing with two legs is bad. It may not be a direct threat but if readers analysis the posters and all the different elements it is all leading back to the nada human who killed an innocent animal.
