Visual Diagram - Ideas and Roughs

When creating roughs for my diagram, I faced a slight wall when sticking to my original satirical idea. I didn't feel like I had the intellectual potential to pull satire off, and create humor. I have tried to create humor in my past projects and found that I am not very comfortable with the delicate nature of it. 

To start roughing, like in my sketchbook, I started to create visual representations of persuasion, and came up with things like traps, puppets and ropes. One idea that really stuck with me was of the puppet master, and although it is quite cliche, I felt like it would represent persuasion very effectively visually. 

Chosen Idea

I think this idea is really effective in terms of conveying the mysterious sinister force that is persuasive techniques in advertising. I want to use a faceless figure to once again create this sinister effect, and the symbol of puppets to convey how we are being controlled against our own will.