Firstly, this speech, the second of three speeches …show more content…
His strongest strategies are logical reasoning and appealing to the House’s and citizen’s emotions. In his speech, he continually returns to the issue of developing a better strategy for war. The Prime Minister states, “only a rapid retreat to Amiens and the south could have saved the British and French armies...but this strategic fact was not immediately realized.” Along with Churchill’s logical reasoning, he also makes an appeal to the reader’s emotions. He makes sure to give credit to the soldiers, who he refers to as brave. Also, in the peroration, Churchill’s tone leans more towards inspiring the soldiers to keep fighting as he says, “We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be...we shall never surrender.” In this one continuous sentence, Churchill uses repetition to make his point of never surrendering. Also, he notes the intensity of what he is requesting by stating, “we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength...whatever the cost may