Question

What is the authors purpose in Patrick Henry speech ?

Answer 1

To show the colonists that war with Britain was their only option.

Step-by-step explanation:

Patrick Henry's speech was titled ''Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!''.

From the titled you can see that this speech had the intention of a radical idea: or freedom, or death (which mean we'll fight).

Also you can get the answer from the context, this speech was given to the Virginia convention, where they was debating whether send troops to fight or not.

Answer 2

The main purpose of Patrick Henry 'sspeech at Virginia Conference, was to convince the delegates to secede from Britain; moreover, to fight back against them. He antagonizes Britain by imputing every hardships they faced to Britain.