Four Letters On Interesting Subject By Thomas Paine Summary

Thomas Paine played a major role in the development of America in the 1800s. As a political writer, he wrote both Four Letters on Interesting Subjects and The Last Crisis Number XIII . The papers describe the relationship that the Colonies had with Britain at the time. We can still see how Thomas Paine has an effect in today’s society by looking out countless authors and how they view him. Four Letters on Interesting Subjects addressed the relationship between the colonies and the British as being a country that is oppressive and creating tension by not sharing the same principles that the American colonies wanted. In letter one Thomas Paine talks about the Stamp-Act and Tea-Act . He believes that those acts were not implemented for the …show more content…
In letter II Thomas Paine wrote about how the colonies must fight together to repel the British if they were to attack. That if each colony attempted to repel the British force separately that they would not be able to. He believes that the only way to success in such a task was to be a united as one and to divide the British forces. Letter VI, Thomas Paine speaks about the Constitution. He argues that a government and constitution are found together. The English government does not have a constitution and he would argue that they are oppressive. That the British whatever acts pass are then laws no matter how oppressive they can be. The four letters by Thomas Paine show that the relationship between the American colonies and the British are building off of tension because of the colonies feeling …show more content…
Martin Roth from the University of Minnesota and his article Thomas Paine and American Loneliness speaks as if Thomas Paine was a negative effect on America. Roth begins by talking about Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and the Crisis papers. He views them as being built from metaphors causing people to have false and unrealistic hopes. In Common Sense, Roth believed that the writing was only lies that were based on his imagination of what he wanted America to be. Martin Roth wrote, “Paine sketched the fictions that would grow around this plot” . Roth is showing us that he believes that Thomas Paine created visions of a place that could never exist. When talking about the Crisis he wrote,” An image at the end of the first Crisis paper presents a vision of this doomed America” . Roth sees Thomas Paine as being no more than a false writer, building the American colonist hope in dreams of reality that is nearly