Analyzing The Speech 'We Shall Fight On The Beaches' By Sir Winston Churchill

The speech “We Shall Fight On the Beaches” by Sir Winston Churchill inspires the people of Britain that have been affected by the attacks of the Nazi regime. Churchill supports his attempts to inspire by using different anaphora’s and instances of loaded language to better convey the seriousness of his message. He provides factual information and statements that appeal to the intellectual side of people in order to further rile up the British citizens in their fight against Hitler and the Nazi’s. Churchill is directly addressing the people of Great Britain not only as their leader but as their comrade; he is connecting to them on an emotional level so that he won’t seem overbearing to the people. Churchill begins his speech by acknowledging just how dangerous of a situation the country is in. He appeals to the emotions of both parliament and the soldiers on the battlefront by admitting that “only a rapid retreat to Amiens and the south could have saved the British and French Armies who had entered Belgium at the appeal of the Belgian King’(Churchill). This helps him captivate the attention of his audience in order to further deliver his message that Britain and France had no choice but to

He does this through the using the metaphor “the German eruption swept like a sharp scythe around the right and rear of the Armies of the north”(Churchill). He does this in order to explain to parliament the fierceness of the actions that Germany is taking against them and their country. His brilliant play on words helped to further rile up the people. The purpose of Churchill’s statement is further supported by a statement in an article on a website known as bbc.co.uk. The article basically said that Churchill was “keen to temper the nation-wide euphoria that so many troops had escaped”(BBC). He does this in order to reveal the reasons behind Churchill’s methods of