Reflection of Patrick Henry

In Patrick Henry's speech Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death he uses rhetorical questions to illustrate his opinion of war to the house of representatives. Patrick Henry was at first scared to share his opinion with the house but after heavy thought he found it was okay to do that because he had to get his opinion out there. He needed to let everyone know what he was thinking and why he was thinking it and what they could do about it. The things on his mind was: War, Freedom & Slavery. He was trying to convince the house to join the revolutionary war. He wanted them on his side, he wanted them to see his point of view and listen to it. He needed them to join the revolutionary war so that they could do as he wanted. He was encouraging them. From this i can see that Patrick Henry really wanted the revolutionary war to prosper.