Analysis Of Common Sense By Thomas Paine

Common Sense was considered by some to be one of the most influential works of the revolutionary time period. The fifty page pamphlet was written by Thomas Paine, an English immigrant, who was a newspaper editor and a non-pacifist Quaker and who, some believed, possessed ideals and values that were radical for the time period. Just one of these ideals was the inhumanity of slavery. He wrote Common Sense to express an idea to those common colonists who were rebelling against or were frustrated with the tyranny of the British government. Paine also wished to reach those who were still on the fence and undecided about rebelling against the government. The main idea that Paine introduced to these colonists, using Common Sense, was the revolution