He used this motif to develop characters and to set the mood. In the story, Henry is a 12-year-old boy, living on the outskirts of Boston. He recently got a job at the Corner Market. His boss was a mean man named Mr. Hairston. On page 6, Mr.
Secondly, he also used a rhetorical question when he said, “Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation,” (Henry 101). This quote also shows how it’s obvious that we need to fight for what is right. It wasn’t a matter of if, but when.
Dumping 342 containers of tea into the Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773 was just the beginning of the rebellion against paying taxes to Great Britain. As the author and orator of the “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention,” Patrick Henry fights against being “slaves” to Great Britain. Henry utilizes rhetorical strategies such as, ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade Virginia to start the American Revolution. To show the audience that he has credibility, Patrick Henry starts his speech with, ”No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House” (Henry 1). He tells the audience that he has incredible patriotism for the colonies and that there are worthy gentlemen that have the ability to fight for our country.
In Patrick Henry’s most famous speech he uses pathos to convince the people to fight. He is calling on every patriot in Virginia. He was also trying to get the delegates to secede from Britain. “I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country (Henry)” Henry is saying if he and the people do not serve their country they shall be guilty of treason.
Henry is trying to scare the delegates into believing what he believes. To the people who want to hold off preparing for something that might not happen, he asks them when they “shall gather” enough “strength” to fight against the British. Henry is trying to push the delegates by asking when it will be time for action, now or when the British are going to force them into the worst situation later in the future. “Gentlemen may cry” for “Peace, Peace, but” it is too late to beg for peace or come to a solution without violence. Patrick Henry is stressing that it is now time for action and that they have to fight for peace.
There are several effective allusions found in this speech; mostly allusions to the Bible or mythology. When he says in the second paragraph "listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts," he alludes to the sirens found in the epic The Odyssey. Henry is saying that to listen to this call, this "illusion of hope", even though it is tempting, will prove mortal and change the Convention into something unable to reason and act, a beast. Henry uses multiple biblical allusions with which his opponents would be familiar with. In the second paragraph, he says "Are we disposed of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not.
The outcome of the movie, The Hunt for Red October, was that the US Navy on the USS Dallas and the Soviet Navy on the Red October were able to successfully destroy the enemy submarine, the V. K. Konovalov. Without the CIA analyst and former Marine, Jack Ryan’s convincing that the Red Octobers captain was trying to defect, the Soviet Union would have launched missiles on the United States east coast. The teamwork of the Navy’s caused the enemy submarine to be dismantled. The movie portrayed battles between two Soviet Union submarines, the Red October, the V. K. Konovalov, and a United States submarine, the USS Dallas.
In William Shakespeare’s Henry V, the character of King Henry delivers some powerful verbiage, known as St. Crispin’s Day Speech, to his troops in order to rally the men for battle. In this speech, King Henry chooses to invoke themes such as glory, religion, and comradery to make the battle they are about to fight immortal in the soldiers’ minds and to motivate them to fight together. These themes draw similar emotions in all men, no matter their background; all men have the need for honour, the urge to please the deity they believe in, and the need to trust in their fellow men. Every man wants his story to be remembered.
I believe The Red Badge of Courage does have a sense of morals or a moral center. Henry runs from battle but eventually returns. He abandons the tattered soldier who needed his help. He changes his sense of morals throughout the book.
This proves that Henry wants the average citizen to join him in the fight against the 'chains and slavery' of British rule. The 'chains and slavery' represents their
He often changes his meaning of courage throughout the novel. The definition that his mother gives him is that courage is the ability to figure out when to give up.. “She had doggedly peeled potatoes and addressed him as follows: ‘You watch out, Henry, an’ take good care of yerself in this here fighting business—you watch out, an’ take good care of yerself. Don’t go a-thinkin’ you can lick the hull
This shows the audience what Henrys royal status brings him mentally in the fact that how could an ordinary man be in charge of so many people’s lives and well being. Henry replies by saying that he is not to be held responsible for the deaths that may occur as “ Every subject’s duty is the king’s, but every subject’s soul is his own.” This is Henry saying that he is just an ordinary man and that he is not a special man who should be blamed for the war and deaths. This encounter shows that Henry can, when hidden, talk and behave like an ordinary man without people getting suspicious as to him being the king. In a few ways he shows this, as Bates and Williams don’t question that his language is not that of an ordinary man and that he can take opinions of others, not thinking himself as being above others opinions as he is the king.
King Henry is prodigiously vexed by his inability to sleep. In addressing sleep itself, with the use of an apostrophe, he hopes to persuade it to fall upon him by asking various rhetorical questions. He pleads with sleep for it to abandon its partiality, and bestow upon him some rest, as it does upon the commoners. However, at the end of the passage, his indignation turns into resignation, as he realizes that he can do little to alter his situation. The transition in King Henry 's state of mind is conveyed through the soliloquy 's powerful images, revealing word choice, and peculiar sentence structure.
However, it soon dawns on him that war is brutal and jeopardous, somewhat contradictory to what he visualizes before. The soldier’s wound, the corpses and the flag symbolize Henry’s most wide-eyed innervations, the cruelty of the war as well as Henry’s maturity. The wound, without a doubt, is the most far-reaching symbol of the story. To Henry, wounds are “ a red badge of courage”, it represents the soldier dignity and offers one with great renown.
Henry V demonstrates his ability to make all his men feel equal and valued even with varying status with the inspiration he puts in his speech. He is speaking to a group of men who are about to go out and put their lives on the line for something they believe in. Henry V instills in the minds of his soldiers how honorable what they are doing is. Henry V goes on to tell them that if they survive this battle, they will forever be familiar and admired by the people. Henry V did not just direct his speech to the people of higher prominence, but even to the men of lower stature.
