Queen Elizabeth gave quite a powerful speech when she spoke to her people before the Spanish Armada attack. She was dressed in armor, standing amongst her people rather than hidden behind her bodyguards. The English were greatly outnumbered by the Spanish Armada, who had been planning on attacking them for three years. During these years, the English were in a hefty financial situation and the troops were suffering from thirst, starvation, and dirtiness.
The subject of this speech would be Queen Elizabeths support for her troops. The occasion of the text is at Tilbury in 1588 before Queen Elizabeth and her troops leave for battle. The audience of this speech would be the troops gathered around Queen Elizabeth as she delivers her speech. Queen Elizabeths purpose is to persuade, energize, enliven, empower, strengthen, and stimulate her troops to fight energetically for their country. This speech would be considered a pep rally for her troops who will soon go to battle against an outnumbered army while their chances of winning are quite slim. The tone would be profoundly powerful, encouraging, and patriotic.
To understand this piece of literature, SOAPST helps to understand the purpose of the speech and why it was delivered at that time and why in front of that specific audience. The piece would be effective to the audience in great extent because not only did the troops have their queen standing amongst them, but they had a great speech to energize them for the upcoming battle. The speech gave them thoughtful reasons and led them to win the battle.
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