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 “<em>Their Finest Hour</em>” delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1940 was <u>to give Great Britain hope during World War II</u>, <u>to achieve perseverance in the people in order to make them gain courage to fight on</u>. In the excerpt presented above from the closing of his speech, Churchill explains that the world is experiencing the <u>atrocities</u> of the World War II and he gives reasons to his requests (“<em>Let us brace ourselves to our duties</em>”) arguing that the world is in jeopardy (“<em>a new Dark Age</em>”/ “<em>we will sink into the abyss</em>”). Moreover, the intended effect of Churchill of finishing this excerpt by providing the reasons to his requests is <u>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</u>.
