Liberty or Death Response Paper

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On March 23, 1775 a well-known Delegate by the name of Patrick Henry presented his most legendary speech “Liberty or Death’ amongst his fellow audience members while appearing at the House of Burgess in Richmond Virginia. Patrick Henry respectfully introduced his visions on the situation he was addressing and voiced certain actions that should be engaged regarding the conflict with the Brittan’s. Henry used rhetorical approaches in order to convince the members in the audience that Liberty is worth fighting for as citizens of the United States of America. Henrys used motivational and responsive words through ideas that produced a powerful speech that resonated so strongly with is audience. Henry Patrick appealed to his audience throughout his speech threw the usage of imagery words in order to stir the emotions of his following audience members and peers to generate an image of endangerment and enslavement. One of the many ways Henry was able to connect to the audiences members was threw the use of imaginary words which emphasized repletion and eventually caught the audiences senses, and emotions by creating a lasting mental picture in the mind of his audience. Patrick Henry uses imagery towards his audience to illustrate a picture of what they are facing by presenting an example for well know literature “listen to the song of the siren till she transforms us into beasts”. (Henry) Henry evoked the use of pathos by connecting his audience with the feeling of intense emotions of the literature with the current situation they have. Henry choses certain word and passages such as “enslaving”, “Britain’s rules chains of slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!” (Henry) as being, and "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at... ... middle of paper ... ...vides remonstrations towards the American patriots who were against the British master. Throughout Americas history we have faced extreme hardships, epidemics, World War 1 and 2, and depressions, but America never longed to ceased to exist because of our fight that was embodied threw the words “Give me Liberty or give me death” (Henry) History isn’t defined as a list of facts, but a record if incredible principles and concepts that have swayed and motivated individuals in our present time. Works Cited Brands, Breen, Williams, Gross, H.W., T.H., R. Hal, Ariel J. American Stories A History of the United Sates. . Reprint. US: Pearson Education, Inc., 2012. Print. Source: Wirt, William. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry. (Philadelphia) 1836, as reproduced in The World's Great Speeches, Lewis Copeland and Lawrence W. Lamm, eds., (New York) 1973.

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