The work of Patrick Henry, John Winthrop, and Frederick Douglass have created a superior platform, it has influenced many people in a variety of ways. They used as a means of convincing an audience via the authority, they convinced the audience of an argument by creating an emotional response, and they persuade the audience with reasons and facts. Moreover, it has created wars, demonstrate their power and strength. However, the three works have different meanings and purposes. They all try to get into the people in a variety of different ways. Firstly, the work of Frederick Douglass, ¨Hypocrisy of American Slavery¨, Frederick Douglass sees the irony in a former slave celebrating the Fourth of July, the anniversary of the declaration of independence …show more content…
Moreover, he uses pathos because the puritans basically based their society on faith, they reached their emotional level because the puritans god was a vengeful god and they feared him. He tries to convince puritans to be a good example, and desires other towns to look upon theirs as an idolatry Puritan community. He uses persuasive diction and figures of speech to reinforce his idea of a “city upon a hill”, which is having absolute unity and conformity in able for the colony to prosper. Finally, in Patrick Henry speech, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!”, wants for people to go to the war, so they won’t be seen as somebody weak, he goes for that we go to war not for the love of bloodshed but to prove them their strength than they think. In other words, he wanted the people to feel good about their troops and what they need in life. Moreover, Patrick appeals to pathos when he begins up how the acts of Britain have not left him feeling mistreated and inferior, but a lot of people as well. Also, Henry shows that immediate action is needed and his famous last sentence, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!”, shows that the audience that he is in this until death.