There are many ways that people in positions of power influence society. Whether it’s someone who is a preacher like Jonathan Edwards that influence the behavior of their congregation, or sSomeone like Patrick Henry who used his position of wealth in Virginia to preach the idea of liberty from Britain in Colonial America. They all seem to have one thing in common, they all use rhetoric in some shape or form in their orations to their audiences.
How Jonathan Edwards used rhetoric used was he heavily relied on pathos to influence the people in his church to stop sinning and start repenting. He said things like “You hang by a slender thread with flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to burn it asunder.” (paragraph3) Which …show more content…
In paragraph 5 he says “Haste and escape your lives, look not back behind you, escape the mountains, lest you be consumed.” alluding to the biblical city of Sodom that was destroyed by god’s wrath in the form of fires due to it’s sinful people.
Patrick Henry on the other hand used a large amount of Logos to convince his audience at the Virginia convention that war with Britain was necessary. In Paragraph 6 he stated “We have petitioned; We have remonstrated; We have supplicated…. Our petitions have been slighted; Our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; Our supplications have been disregarded.” Which makes you realize that they’ve tried every single peaceful route that they could and there is officially no way around war with Britain, war is inevitable.
Henry also used Ethos to convince his audience in paragraph 4 when he says “ For my part, whatever anguish of spirit I am willing to know the whole truth-to know the worst and to provide for it.I have but one lamp which my feet are guided by; and that lamp is experience.” He know that war is the only way that things will get better or at least stop is by his own
How Jonathan Edwards used rhetoric used was he heavily relied on pathos to influence the people in his church to stop sinning and start repenting. He said things like “You hang by a slender thread with flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to burn it asunder.” (paragraph3) Which …show more content…
In paragraph 5 he says “Haste and escape your lives, look not back behind you, escape the mountains, lest you be consumed.” alluding to the biblical city of Sodom that was destroyed by god’s wrath in the form of fires due to it’s sinful people.
Patrick Henry on the other hand used a large amount of Logos to convince his audience at the Virginia convention that war with Britain was necessary. In Paragraph 6 he stated “We have petitioned; We have remonstrated; We have supplicated…. Our petitions have been slighted; Our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; Our supplications have been disregarded.” Which makes you realize that they’ve tried every single peaceful route that they could and there is officially no way around war with Britain, war is inevitable.
Henry also used Ethos to convince his audience in paragraph 4 when he says “ For my part, whatever anguish of spirit I am willing to know the whole truth-to know the worst and to provide for it.I have but one lamp which my feet are guided by; and that lamp is experience.” He know that war is the only way that things will get better or at least stop is by his own