Paul Revere's engraving depicts a very strong, determined group of soldiers shooting at an unarmed crowd of Bostonians, many of whom were already wounded. This engraving was circulated across the colonies as one of the biggest pieces of propaganda. Nobody was quite sure what happened that day at the massacre, and Paul Revere used the confusion to his advantage. He exaggerated the brutality of the British in order to rally support from other colonies. People who did not know the entire story of the Boston Massacre assumed Paul Revere interpretation of the massacre was the truth. This caused hate for the British to spread even more throughout the colonies.
Paul Revere's engraving is a piece of propaganda because it spread an incorrect portrayal of the Boston Massacre. The colonists appear to be victims because they look helpless and afraid. On the other hand, the British soldiers look serious and focused as they shoot at unarmed men. The soldiers appear merciless and like they had no reason to defend themselves. This engraving made lots of colonists believe that the British were more violent and evil than they were. Causing further divide between the colonists and the British.
Paul Revere's depiction of the Boston Massacre is a piece of propaganda because it displays the events in a biased manner. The engraving shows British soldiers lining up and firing upon innocent colonists. Revere wanted to make the colonists think that the British attacked the colonists in an unmerciful manner. Rather than depicting what actually happened, Revere depicted his biased opinion against the British. Colonists believed in Revere's engraving because this was all that they could know about the Boston Massacre. The engraving persuaded colonists into believing that the British were attacking the colonists, which made the colonists view Great Britain as an enemy.
Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is a piece of propaganda because it makes the British appear to be very cruel towards the colonists. Propaganda is biased piece of publiciity used to promote a certain political idea. Sam Adams purpose of this engraving was to make England a cruel enemy and threat towards America. In the engraving, the British soldiers are in straight, organized line being commanded to shoot the colonists. Having this organization in the British soldiers makes it appear that the British had planned to kill these citizens. The colonists in the picture look scared. Some are even trying to run away and others are already dead with blood shed around them. This makes the soldiers seem unjustified to be shooting their citizens because they were unprovoked by the colonists but still cruelly killed their own people. This is propaganda because the purpose of the engraving was to make the British the enemy by appearing cruel and seeming to have a planned to kill innocent colonists.
Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is propaganda because it depicts the British as calculated in their shooting in Boston. In the picture, Bostonians appear to be shielding themselves and cowering. The British, on the other hand, are lined up in a formation and being commanded to shoot. Because of the way the British were depicted, the belief was that the British were intentionally trying to harm the colonists. It made the colonists believe that the British were merciless and were intent on harming the colonists. This would cause the larger rift between the British and colonists.
Paul Revere's engraving depicting the Boston Massacre is propaganda because it falsely portrays the event as having been an organized, intentional, and unprovoked slaughter of American colonists. Even the title, The Bloody Massacre, misrepresents the event. The engraving itself shows a line of British soldiers in formation all shooting in unison at the colonists, who are in a tightly packed group at some distance from the soldiers, with the captain standing behind them, leaning forward with his sword held out in front of him. The colonists are standing passively and not throwing anything at the soldiers, nor do they look angry or rebellious; they all look either sad or afraid. Three colonists are lying on the ground, with blood gushing out of them, and another is falling over backwards. The engraving shows an intentional slaughter of colonists that took many lives, but in reality, the soldiers were acting in self-defense, and only five people were killed. The tragedy was greatly exaggerated and blown up until it appeared like a true massacre of such great proportions that the colonists had to react violently.
Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is propaganda because it shows how the colonists were truly innocent and that the British were the ones at fault. In the picture it shows the soldiers all dressed in uniform covered by a cloud of smoke from their guns. The colonists are on the other side innocently without any weapons and have a few of their own men laying in their own blood. This picture is propaganda because gives the colonists yet another reason to dislike the British and the ruling under England. The colonists were already being taxed and were supposed to be getting protection from England, which is the exact opposite of what the engraving entails. This is also propaganda to help the colonists to continue to say that they were being treated unfairly by the British.
Paul Revere's engraving is propaganda because in the picture the colonists are unresisting, and the British are in complete control. This lead the colonists to believe that the British were attacking, because they disagreed with the colonist. It does not show the truth of the matter that they were mobbing the soldiers. The colonists are lying on the ground dead while the british continue to fire. This is exaggerating the excessive force to strengthen the negative emotions. In addition, not a single colonist is resisting or throwing stones. This is not true and without that fact it makes the British look evil. Also the British are organized and being led by a leader. This led the colonists to believe that the soldiers organized and planned this out.
Paul Revere’s engraving is a piece of propaganda because it portrays a version of the event where the facts are exaggerated in the viewpoint of the colonists in order to use the Boston Massacre as a tool against the British. In the actual event, one single soldier was provoked by colonists and called for reinforcements. When a rowdy crowd gathered, a misinterpreted signal was given to the British to shoot, and four people were killed on the spot. In the version of the event in the engraving, the British soldiers are lined up in their red coats, in order with their guns raised and shooting in unison. The colonists are in an unorganized grouping, some grotesquely injured and others attempting to help those who are injured. The faces of the colonists are all sad and they look vulnerable in posture. This presentation of the event makes it seem as if the British planned the shooting and were acting on an organized order. The engraving also portrays that the colonists had done nothing but be in the wrong place at the wrong time. These embellishments exemplify that only some facts of the event were told while others were kept out of it in order to enhance the innocence of the colonists. This inaccurate portrayal of the event was a piece of propaganda because it inspired colonists to believe the view that the British were not in America to help them, but to oppress them.
Paul Revere's engraving representing the Boston Massacre is a peice of propaganda used to make the British troops appear cruel and merciless. The occupation of Boston by the British troops (due to the Quartering Act) was a source of tension in the colonies already, so the Boston Massacre provided those opposing the British with a prime opportunity to take advantage of the existing tension and further the colonist's aversion to the British. As mentioned before, Paul Revere depicted the British in an organized line firing at hepless, unarmed colonists. This was far from what really happened; the Boston Massacre was in fact instigated by the colonists, and both sides contributed to the violence. The British soldier in the right hand corner of the engraving is standing behind the troops and raising his weapon in a way that suggests that he is a general or leader of some sort that is ordering the troops to massacre the colonists. This adds to the false idea that the Boston Massacre was an organized attack on the colonists by the British troops. The many inaccuracies in this engraving all help to make the British appear violent and cruel, promoting revolt.
Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is a piece of propaganda given the clear bias to the illustration and the caption below it. The drawing depicts a uniformed order to the British armed troops versus a groups of Colonists with a lack of force or threat given their undistinguished outfits and their inability to fight back. As some Colonists layon the ground bleeding out and others showed signs of wounds, the British troops did not hold their fire. A lack of effort to assist their fellow English citizens is shown in the picture. This demonstrates how Paul Revere wanted to portray this event to the Colonial citizens as the complete fault of the British soldiers. He portrayed the British as ruthless beings, with their commander commanding his troops to continue shooting even though there were dying Colonial citizens right in front of them. Therefore, the British are seen as unwilling to fairly treat innocent Colonial citizens the same as they would true Englishmen from Britain. This depiction concluded that the Colonists were the absolute victims and the British were the perpetrators and villains, when that was not necessarily an accurate recount of the event.
Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is an example of propaganda because it displays a great amount of bias in favor of the colonists. The image depicts a row of uniformed British soldiers, lined up in a rank to fire at a large group of colonists who appear to be either begging the soldiers to cease fire, or retreating. However, this image does not depict the full story of what happened that night. According to many sources, the group of colonists had started out as a group of children, throwing snowballs at a British officer. The group then began to grow as more working-class adults joined the scuffle, beginning to throw things such as rocks at the officer instead. The British man then proceeded to call for help, and more soldiers arrived to assuage the situation. The commander that was present called out at one point, "Don't shoot!", but this was misinterpreted and a shot was fired. By the end of this event, five people were dead. Based off of the true events of the Boston Massacre, Paul Revere is blatantly putting all of the blame on the British officers, portraying them in the engraving as though they were simply attacking the colonists for no reason, with the British commander urging them on. By exaggerating the actions of the British soldiers during this event, Paul Revere is effectively uniting the colonies as a whole force, determined to fight back against the unjust acts placed upon them by Parliament.
Paul Revere's "The Bloody Massacre" is a piece of propaganda. Propaganda is art that is used to evoke strong feelings that are parallel to the feelings of others. This piece is propaganda for five reasons. The first reason is it's title, "The Bloody Massacre." By referring to the event as a "Bloody Massacre" Paul Revere would make viewers feel that the event was a gruesome slaughter of people. The second reason is the presence of the State House and Boston businesses in the background. By having these buildings in the back, Revere would make viewers feel that the British had come to their land to kill there people because the buildings would remind them of the setting of the event. This would evoke feelings of nationalism and hatred. Third, the number of British soldiers. By depicting so many British soldiers, Revere makes it seem that the British went overkill and were thirsty for blood which would make the colonists feel that they need to defend themselves. Fourth, the visual separation of the colonists and soldiers in the makes the British seem to be a firing squad that just wanted to murder. This would fortify the colonists' feelings that the British just wanted blood. Fifth, the placement of the bleeding and dying colonists in the foreground grabs the viewers' eyes and emphasizes the point that colonists died. This would just make the colonists angrier. Revere artistic choices were meant to evoke feelings against the British and these feelings make this piece propaganda.
Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre is a piece of propaganda because the scene is considerably exaggerated in order to display the hardships of the colonists. This one-sided view of this event, supports the argument of the colonists, because it proves their point of British soldiers being unruly. In the engraving, British troops are openly firing at colonial citizens, without any form of resistance. There are several American men lying dead on the floor next to a puddle of their own blood. In reality, the Boston Massacre was far different than this depiction. It was a two way struggle, with force coming from both sides. This false engraving portrays British officers and Parliament in general as a brutal force with no regard for the people of the colonies.
Paul Revere's engraving depicts a very strong, determined group of soldiers shooting at an unarmed crowd of Bostonians, many of whom were already wounded. This engraving was circulated across the colonies as one of the biggest pieces of propaganda. Nobody was quite sure what happened that day at the massacre, and Paul Revere used the confusion to his advantage. He exaggerated the brutality of the British in order to rally support from other colonies. People who did not know the entire story of the Boston Massacre assumed Paul Revere interpretation of the massacre was the truth. This caused hate for the British to spread even more throughout the colonies.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's engraving is a piece of propaganda because it spread an incorrect portrayal of the Boston Massacre. The colonists appear to be victims because they look helpless and afraid. On the other hand, the British soldiers look serious and focused as they shoot at unarmed men. The soldiers appear merciless and like they had no reason to defend themselves. This engraving made lots of colonists believe that the British were more violent and evil than they were. Causing further divide between the colonists and the British.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's depiction of the Boston Massacre is a piece of propaganda because it displays the events in a biased manner. The engraving shows British soldiers lining up and firing upon innocent colonists. Revere wanted to make the colonists think that the British attacked the colonists in an unmerciful manner. Rather than depicting what actually happened, Revere depicted his biased opinion against the British. Colonists believed in Revere's engraving because this was all that they could know about the Boston Massacre. The engraving persuaded colonists into believing that the British were attacking the colonists, which made the colonists view Great Britain as an enemy.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is a piece of propaganda because it makes the British appear to be very cruel towards the colonists. Propaganda is biased piece of publiciity used to promote a certain political idea. Sam Adams purpose of this engraving was to make England a cruel enemy and threat towards America. In the engraving, the British soldiers are in straight, organized line being commanded to shoot the colonists. Having this organization in the British soldiers makes it appear that the British had planned to kill these citizens. The colonists in the picture look scared. Some are even trying to run away and others are already dead with blood shed around them. This makes the soldiers seem unjustified to be shooting their citizens because they were unprovoked by the colonists but still cruelly killed their own people. This is propaganda because the purpose of the engraving was to make the British the enemy by appearing cruel and seeming to have a planned to kill innocent colonists.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is propaganda because it depicts the British as calculated in their shooting in Boston. In the picture, Bostonians appear to be shielding themselves and cowering. The British, on the other hand, are lined up in a formation and being commanded to shoot. Because of the way the British were depicted, the belief was that the British were intentionally trying to harm the colonists. It made the colonists believe that the British were merciless and were intent on harming the colonists. This would cause the larger rift between the British and colonists.
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ReplyDeletePaul Revere's engraving depicting the Boston Massacre is propaganda because it falsely portrays the event as having been an organized, intentional, and unprovoked slaughter of American colonists. Even the title, The Bloody Massacre, misrepresents the event. The engraving itself shows a line of British soldiers in formation all shooting in unison at the colonists, who are in a tightly packed group at some distance from the soldiers, with the captain standing behind them, leaning forward with his sword held out in front of him. The colonists are standing passively and not throwing anything at the soldiers, nor do they look angry or rebellious; they all look either sad or afraid. Three colonists are lying on the ground, with blood gushing out of them, and another is falling over backwards. The engraving shows an intentional slaughter of colonists that took many lives, but in reality, the soldiers were acting in self-defense, and only five people were killed. The tragedy was greatly exaggerated and blown up until it appeared like a true massacre of such great proportions that the colonists had to react violently.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is propaganda because it shows how the colonists were truly innocent and that the British were the ones at fault. In the picture it shows the soldiers all dressed in uniform covered by a cloud of smoke from their guns. The colonists are on the other side innocently without any weapons and have a few of their own men laying in their own blood. This picture is propaganda because gives the colonists yet another reason to dislike the British and the ruling under England. The colonists were already being taxed and were supposed to be getting protection from England, which is the exact opposite of what the engraving entails. This is also propaganda to help the colonists to continue to say that they were being treated unfairly by the British.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's engraving is propaganda because in the picture the colonists are unresisting, and the British are in complete control. This lead the colonists to believe that the British were attacking, because they disagreed with the colonist. It does not show the truth of the matter that they were mobbing the soldiers. The colonists are lying on the ground dead while the british continue to fire. This is exaggerating the excessive force to strengthen the negative emotions. In addition, not a single colonist is resisting or throwing stones. This is not true and without that fact it makes the British look evil. Also the British are organized and being led by a leader. This led the colonists to believe that the soldiers organized and planned this out.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere’s engraving is a piece of propaganda because it portrays a version of the event where the facts are exaggerated in the viewpoint of the colonists in order to use the Boston Massacre as a tool against the British. In the actual event, one single soldier was provoked by colonists and called for reinforcements. When a rowdy crowd gathered, a misinterpreted signal was given to the British to shoot, and four people were killed on the spot. In the version of the event in the engraving, the British soldiers are lined up in their red coats, in order with their guns raised and shooting in unison. The colonists are in an unorganized grouping, some grotesquely injured and others attempting to help those who are injured. The faces of the colonists are all sad and they look vulnerable in posture. This presentation of the event makes it seem as if the British planned the shooting and were acting on an organized order. The engraving also portrays that the colonists had done nothing but be in the wrong place at the wrong time. These embellishments exemplify that only some facts of the event were told while others were kept out of it in order to enhance the innocence of the colonists. This inaccurate portrayal of the event was a piece of propaganda because it inspired colonists to believe the view that the British were not in America to help them, but to oppress them.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's engraving representing the Boston Massacre is a peice of propaganda used to make the British troops appear cruel and merciless. The occupation of Boston by the British troops (due to the Quartering Act) was a source of tension in the colonies already, so the Boston Massacre provided those opposing the British with a prime opportunity to take advantage of the existing tension and further the colonist's aversion to the British. As mentioned before, Paul Revere depicted the British in an organized line firing at hepless, unarmed colonists. This was far from what really happened; the Boston Massacre was in fact instigated by the colonists, and both sides contributed to the violence. The British soldier in the right hand corner of the engraving is standing behind the troops and raising his weapon in a way that suggests that he is a general or leader of some sort that is ordering the troops to massacre the colonists. This adds to the false idea that the Boston Massacre was an organized attack on the colonists by the British troops. The many inaccuracies in this engraving all help to make the British appear violent and cruel, promoting revolt.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is a piece of propaganda given the clear bias to the illustration and the caption below it. The drawing depicts a uniformed order to the British armed troops versus a groups of Colonists with a lack of force or threat given their undistinguished outfits and their inability to fight back. As some Colonists layon the ground bleeding out and others showed signs of wounds, the British troops did not hold their fire. A lack of effort to assist their fellow English citizens is shown in the picture. This demonstrates how Paul Revere wanted to portray this event to the Colonial citizens as the complete fault of the British soldiers. He portrayed the British as ruthless beings, with their commander commanding his troops to continue shooting even though there were dying Colonial citizens right in front of them. Therefore, the British are seen as unwilling to fairly treat innocent Colonial citizens the same as they would true Englishmen from Britain. This depiction concluded that the Colonists were the absolute victims and the British were the perpetrators and villains, when that was not necessarily an accurate recount of the event.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre is an example of propaganda because it displays a great amount of bias in favor of the colonists. The image depicts a row of uniformed British soldiers, lined up in a rank to fire at a large group of colonists who appear to be either begging the soldiers to cease fire, or retreating. However, this image does not depict the full story of what happened that night. According to many sources, the group of colonists had started out as a group of children, throwing snowballs at a British officer. The group then began to grow as more working-class adults joined the scuffle, beginning to throw things such as rocks at the officer instead. The British man then proceeded to call for help, and more soldiers arrived to assuage the situation. The commander that was present called out at one point, "Don't shoot!", but this was misinterpreted and a shot was fired. By the end of this event, five people were dead. Based off of the true events of the Boston Massacre, Paul Revere is blatantly putting all of the blame on the British officers, portraying them in the engraving as though they were simply attacking the colonists for no reason, with the British commander urging them on. By exaggerating the actions of the British soldiers during this event, Paul Revere is effectively uniting the colonies as a whole force, determined to fight back against the unjust acts placed upon them by Parliament.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere's "The Bloody Massacre" is a piece of propaganda. Propaganda is art that is used to evoke strong feelings that are parallel to the feelings of others. This piece is propaganda for five reasons. The first reason is it's title, "The Bloody Massacre." By referring to the event as a "Bloody Massacre" Paul Revere would make viewers feel that the event was a gruesome slaughter of people. The second reason is the presence of the State House and Boston businesses in the background. By having these buildings in the back, Revere would make viewers feel that the British had come to their land to kill there people because the buildings would remind them of the setting of the event. This would evoke feelings of nationalism and hatred. Third, the number of British soldiers. By depicting so many British soldiers, Revere makes it seem that the British went overkill and were thirsty for blood which would make the colonists feel that they need to defend themselves. Fourth, the visual separation of the colonists and soldiers in the makes the British seem to be a firing squad that just wanted to murder. This would fortify the colonists' feelings that the British just wanted blood. Fifth, the placement of the bleeding and dying colonists in the foreground grabs the viewers' eyes and emphasizes the point that colonists died. This would just make the colonists angrier. Revere artistic choices were meant to evoke feelings against the British and these feelings make this piece propaganda.
ReplyDeletePaul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre is a piece of propaganda because the scene is considerably exaggerated in order to display the hardships of the colonists. This one-sided view of this event, supports the argument of the colonists, because it proves their point of British soldiers being unruly. In the engraving, British troops are openly firing at colonial citizens, without any form of resistance. There are several American men lying dead on the floor next to a puddle of their own blood. In reality, the Boston Massacre was far different than this depiction. It was a two way struggle, with force coming from both sides. This false engraving portrays British officers and Parliament in general as a brutal force with no regard for the people of the colonies.
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