Political cartoons are image representations having a political or social image that relates to current events in the nation. In the U.S cartoons played an important long-term role by criticizing injustices, political corruption and social evils such as forced labor on the citizens. For this study, animated cartoons such as Bug Bunny were used to symbolize the soldiers and the task they were to perform during their war operations. Bugs Bunny Cartoons also relied on images to address political issues during the war at that time.
Cartoon symbols were used to clarify deeper meaning of the context and the message passed across for example labeling of images for identification and posting at a public billboard to create alertness. Also, simplified opinions used were to reduce large world figures and solve contemporary problems experienced during the war. By consideration, the purpose of cartoons is to illustrate the social and political injustices done by the leaders to exploit its citizens and the enemy country for example through human torture and brutal killings. Further, cartoons emphasized the year in which U.S first entered World War II (Neighbor, Karaca & Lang, 3). In the picture, an enemy walk with three arms that branch from his back each holding a weapon of war. Lastly, the influence on the targeted audience left a negative impact as they perished in hunger and some left homeless.
One main reason for World War II effectiveness was from propaganda as it promoted a significant coverage of industry and economic stability as every citizen took part in the war to secure its country from the attacking enemy.
In the current economy, the government tries to use ‘black propaganda’, which is giving wrong information to the enemy population to confuse or demoralize them. For instance, in the U.S media manipulation through controlling television channels and are restricted to present only ongoing national activities contrary to public information that should be guaranteed freely at all times.
In summary, U.S military efforts to win the fight were strongly supported by its citizens who provided them with money, food and the morale to fight the war to victory (Neighbor, Karaca & Lang, 4). Cartoon image representations are widely used even today because it serves as a weapon that discusses government institutions and private corporations most corrupt and social evils such as misuse of public funds for personal use.
Work cited
Neigbor, Tese., Capri, Karaca & Kate Lang. Understanding the World of Political Cartoons. Newspaper in Education. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 2013. Web. 25 March 2016. (https://www.world-affairs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2003-Understanding-Political-Cartoons.pdf)
