Why was Thomas Paine"s writing of the Comman Sense so effective?
Thomas Paine in 1776, Common Sense was one of the most famous political treatises from the literature of the American Revolution. Thomas Paine wrote Comman Sense because he was trying to help with the Revolutionary War he wanted them to fight. Paine's political pamphlet brought the rising revolutionary sentiment into sharp focus by placing blame for the suffering of the colonies directly on the reigning British monarch, George III. First and foremost, Common Sense advocated an immediate declaration of independence, postulating a special moral obligation of America to the rest of the world. Not long after publication, the spirit of Paine's argument found resonance in the American Declaration of Independence. Written at the outset of the Revolution, Common Sense became the leaven for the ferment of the times. It stirred the colonists to strengthen their resolve, resulting in the first successful anticolonial action in modern history. Americans could not break their ties with Britain easily.
Despite all
the recent hardships, the majority of colonists since
birth were reared to believe that England was to be loved and its monarch
revered. Americans were divided against themselves. Arguments for
independence were growing. Thomas Paine would provide the extra
push.Paine avoided flowery prose. He wrote in the language of the
people, often quoting the Bible in his arguments. Most
people in America had a working knowledge of the Bible, so his arguments rang
true. Paine was not religious, but he knew his readers were. King George was
"the
Pharaoh of England" and "the Royal Brute of Great Britain."
He touched a nerve in the American countryside.
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