This image is a political cartoon, concerning Syria. While the picture's initial purpose is to be humorous, as most political cartoons are, the real purpose of it is to send a message. The message of this cartoon, in a pretty basic explanation, is to make the viewer feel that what the Syrian president Assad is doing is wrong. This is done through a basic appeal to logos. The cartoon depicts the how the president pledged to relax his policy on protesters, and did essentially nothing. Because before he had a giant iron fist, and after, well, he has a still pretty giant iron fist. The cartoon makes the viewer feel that this is obviously not right, because Assad effectively did nothing to stop his repressive habits, despite pledging that he would.
The cartoon also appeals to pathos. It's obviously not right for Assad to rule with an iron fist, especially so, when the iron fist is so unproportionally gigantic.
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