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Comparison on the Rhetorical Approaches used in Two Literary Works Paine’s “Crisis, Number One” and King Henry’s St. Crispin’s Day speech in Shakespeare’s Henry V both deal with men convincing soldiers to defend their country against an enemy. In doing so, both men use the three Aristotelian appeals (Logos, Ethos, and Pathos) to support their arguments. Paine uses the appeals more effectively because he uses them to support several different methods …

…for at least one idea not to relate to each individual. This relates to a person in a situation such as king Henry or Thomas Paine who must convince hundreds of opinionated people to defend their countries. Therefore, Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis, Number 1” uses the Aristotelian appeals more effectively because it introduces a variety of plausible arguments to his audience while king Henry’s St. Crispin’s Day speech only addresses one viable argument.