Patrick Henry's Analogy Analysis

Henry also incorporated analogies to persuade his audience to join the war effort, but it was only towards the end that the analogies pertained to war. Henry appealed to their nationalism by saying the Americans were “lying supinely on [their] backs” and in no time the British would “[bind them] in hand and foot.” Henry’s analogy is used to compare the situation the Colonists faced to the situations an animal would face; an animal that did not run away from someone attempting to capture it represented how the British would take control of the Americans if they remained inactive. Patrick Henry degraded the Americans, as he represented them as animals when they did not make any efforts toward freedom.The people at the convention had the same