This poster uses both the image of the sword and the words, "Take up the sword of justice", to portray military service as heroic in order to persuade young men to join the military. The sword here is especially important to the audience the poster is appealing to. This poster, aimed at a British audience, uses the sword in order to draw to mind images of England's chivalric past. This iconography, combined with the phrase, "Take up the sword of justice", frames WWI in a heroic light, making the conflict appear to be the sort of heroic struggle found in the tales of King Arthur. This very much the same attitude toward war which Roland is shown to at first believe in, and later become critical of, in Vera Brittain's "Testament of Youth."