Patrick Henry's Speech During The Revolutionary War

We are a fledgling country. Luckily though, we have always been people that are devoted to information and recognition. The Revolutionary War wasn’t the start of our country, but it sure was the start of a civilized one. We look back to 1775 confidently knowing that the importance of what took us all the way through to 1783 became record. Not many people these days give credit to speeches and the impact they may have on what goes on around us. Today only public political speeches are recognized but we are all interested in what happens behind the scenes. But during the Revolutionary War the speeches and little articles from newspapers were on record and given out to the public. The Revolutionary Era, a time where the written word or a speech affected history which it did so by using literary devices in these works. We all can comprehend the importance of Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia Colonies, Thomas Paine’s motivating and captivating pamphlet, and the Declaration of Independence politically. The real question about these three works is, what makes them such exemplary pieces of document. First, Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia Colonies was an eye opener. What he had to say didn’t only bewilder the men in …show more content…
There was propaganda, rumors, opposite parties using the news and power of media whether it benefitted the people or not, but still everything was forthcoming. Instead of today where media is used majorly to strike down an opponent to compensate their own ulterior motives. Media has always had this flaw but during the era of logic and reasoning whether something was fact or wrong it was implemented more as the people’s choice, the people’s right to know, to decide for themselves. Each speech, autobiography, and pamphlet had its own fingerprint in literature history because of the literary devices that made them as captivating and resourceful as they got off the