Question

What is most likely the intended effect of ending the speech this way? Help!

Answer 1

D it does bring a sense of duty to mind

Answer 2

The correct answer is option letter D (The audience will see that it must have courage because the stakes are high for the whole world). The purpose of the speech “Their Finest Hour” delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1940 was to give Great Britain hope during World War II, to achieve perseverance in the people in order to make them gain courage to fight on. In the excerpt presented above from the closing of his speech, Churchill explains that the world is experiencing the atrocities of the World War II and he gives reasons to his requests (“Let us brace ourselves to our duties”) arguing that the world is in jeopardy (“a new Dark Age”/ “we will sink into the abyss”). Moreover, the intended effect of Churchill of finishing this excerpt by providing the reasons to his requests is to make society realize they have to gain courage to fight on, since the whole world has difficult times ahead if they do not fight.