One of the most influential speeches in American history, helped its people win back their freedom. Patrick Henry was a well-known speaker who had a strong opinion about the future of America. He fully convinced the men to fight back for their freedom, because he moved them through the use of rhetorical questions. He used things like allusions and biblical allusions to let the audience know that he can be trusted because he can say things that relate to them and what they know and are interested in. In the speech, Patrick Henry uses pathos, ethos, and logos to achieve winning back the freedom of the colonists and to fight back against Britain, or else they will end up being slaves, and not treated equally by Britain. Most importantly, Henry uses pathos as the main source of persuasion in his famous speech. Henry tells the audience, “There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come” (Paragraph 4). This says that slavery will be their destiny if …show more content…
Henry tells the audience, “Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.” (Paragraph 3). This is telling the president that there is nothing else to be argued. They have tried everything, but nothing works, and they have to