The writers of the revolution wrote to make people feel certain feelings. There are two ways they did this, Thomas Paine wrote to bring out emotion, Thomas Jefferson wrote to appeal to the reader on an intellectual level, and Patrick Henry found the perfect balance in his “Give me liberty or give me death speech”.
Thomas Paine wrote a series of pamphlets titled Common Sense. In these pamphlets he scares the reader into being for the revolution. In The Crisis No.1 he writes “Let them call me a rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery devils were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.” In this quote he is saying he would rather suffer through hell than swear his allegiance to King George III. He scares the colonists by making them think the British soldiers are being set lose on the
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He did this in the Declaration of Independence. In the first sentence he writes “When, in the course of human events, it become necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.” He is stating that is required to declare how the colonists have been wronged. After the introduction of the declaration he states everything “he”, King Gorge, has done wrong to the colonies. Then he goes on to say “We must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends!” In this quote he is saying because of all the wrong Britain’s King and Parliament have committed against us we must separate ourselves politically from