“Patrick Henry’s Effective Essay”
"Give me liberty or give me death!" is powerful statement that needs courage to make in March 23, 1775 at Virginia St. John's Church against one of the world’s strongest empire, but a man needs a lot more courage to make the future American to; believe and stand up the same way as Patrick Henry did against Great Britain. In order to convince his audience to join the war effort he appeals to the emotions, his own credibility and the logic of his audience which eventually helps him to convince his audience in his speech in the Virginia Convention. If you are going to give a speech in a church than your speech has to have some connection with God, Jesus and The Bible and this was exactly what Patrick Henry did; in order to convince people he appealed to God. “I consider it nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery” Henry makes a Biblical allusion to Revelation’s 3:16, “So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” Henry shows that there would be either slavery or freedom, there is no “lukewarm”, and attempting to linger …show more content…
The sentence, “They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other” has a significant syntactical structure. The parallelism of the sentence repeats the same point, which the military preparations by the English are meant for us but nobody else. This makes the colonists scared and gives them a purpose to fight. “And what have we oppose them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the past ten years. Have we anything new to offer on the subject? Nothing”. To disprove the opposing arguments Henry presents a series of rhetorical questions, and answer them all. This makes his audience think that they have already tried everything they can and they have no other choice but to go war with the
"Give me liberty or give me death!" is powerful statement that needs courage to make in March 23, 1775 at Virginia St. John's Church against one of the world’s strongest empire, but a man needs a lot more courage to make the future American to; believe and stand up the same way as Patrick Henry did against Great Britain. In order to convince his audience to join the war effort he appeals to the emotions, his own credibility and the logic of his audience which eventually helps him to convince his audience in his speech in the Virginia Convention. If you are going to give a speech in a church than your speech has to have some connection with God, Jesus and The Bible and this was exactly what Patrick Henry did; in order to convince people he appealed to God. “I consider it nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery” Henry makes a Biblical allusion to Revelation’s 3:16, “So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” Henry shows that there would be either slavery or freedom, there is no “lukewarm”, and attempting to linger …show more content…
The sentence, “They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other” has a significant syntactical structure. The parallelism of the sentence repeats the same point, which the military preparations by the English are meant for us but nobody else. This makes the colonists scared and gives them a purpose to fight. “And what have we oppose them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the past ten years. Have we anything new to offer on the subject? Nothing”. To disprove the opposing arguments Henry presents a series of rhetorical questions, and answer them all. This makes his audience think that they have already tried everything they can and they have no other choice but to go war with the