Question

Note how Paine weaves impassioned questions through the paragraph: “Are you only deceiving yourselves?” “Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands?” How do these questions intensify his challenges?

Answer 1

Thomas Paine's impassioned arguments led the cause of the French and the American revolutions.

Explanation:

Thomas Paine was one of the leading thinkers of the post Augustan age and was a formative influence in the thought of the French and American revolutions.

His egalitarian and emancipator discourse was responsible for the vigor of the revolution to be instilled in the common populace, often induced by such rhetoric as here.

These impassioned questions make sure to drive home the corruption of the clergy and the upper class to full force.