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Monday, 21 October 2019

World Wars and the Arts?

answers1: In both wars there was a lot of propaganda in the arts:
songs, posters, articles and stories telling us all how heroic it is
to be a soldier, and encouraging people to fight. In the Second World
War there were a lot of children's books published in Germany
portraying Jews as "baddies" to teach kids to grow up hating them (The
Poisonus Mushroom for example). <br>
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However, there are those that depict the opposite. War poets (Wilfred
Owen being the most popular example) wrote about the horrors of war. A
lot of novels nowadays are set in times of war and it's always seen as
a bad thing. <br>
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Remember that great suffering creates great artwork.

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