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Because of the urgency and importance of what Churchill wanted to say, he used certain characteristics that would show the House of Commons that he meant business.
II. Audience.
A. This Speech was directed at the House of Commons and only the House of Commons:.
1. The audience was mixed when it came to their feelings toward having Winston Churchill as their new Prime Minister. On entering the chamber, Chamberlain received more cheers than the new Prime Minister (Cannadine, 1989, 147). The men who sat in the seats of the House of Commons are supposed to represent the people. They also were obligated to protect the people. The House of Commons knew it was inevitable that Hitler would soon attack them. They needed a new leader and they knew it once Churchill was finished his speech and he received a deep-throated roar (Broad, 1963, 42). .
Churchill's audience was mixed in opinion as to whether or not he would do a better job than what Chamberlain was doing. He let the House of Commons know that he was determined to keep the British Empire strong and was showing them it could and would be done.
III. Occasion.
A. Genre: Deliberative.
1. Winston Churchill's speech was deliberative because his main focus was on the ending of the speech. He asks himself questions and then answers them and is very repetitive. Churchill also uses strong words to show power and he uses these words to have the House of Commons and the country as a whole unite as a strength. For Winston Churchill, freedom was the word that made speech and writing both possible and noble.
2. He does this by saying, "I would have to say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the Government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all of might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
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