Logos in 'The Red Iceberg'

The cover of ‘The Red Iceberg’ primarily argues that communism is a formidable and imminent threat and that it is often inconspicuous and slippery, requiring that all be on the look out for its presence. Firstly, the cover poses the argument that communism is a powerful force by illustrating it as a large, pointed mass colored an angry shade red. Overall, the red iceberg seems to possess a sort of abeyant hostily. This argument is further supported by the various tomb stones that emebllish the iceberg. The graveyard that it keeps is a testament to and clear evidence of what the iceberg is able of doing to ships that lead astray. Secondly, as discussed in the post on the pathos of the piece, the placement of the iceberg in the foreground and of the Uncle Sam in the back, manipulates the sense of time in the piece, assigning an immence to the threat of communism. Lastly, through the allusion to the Titanic one clearly sees that the piece is arguing not only for the govvernment to be on the look out for communism for the American people to be as well. The power of the allusion to the Titanic is that it recalls a tragedy in which hundreds died because no one saw a devastating threat. The situation could have been avoided if people had noticed the icerberg. Hence, the cover urges people to be on the look out for communism in order to avoid an irrecoverable crash and hence, the loss of the American identity and way of life.

~Eva