Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!: Difference between revisions

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'''This is not about the phrase, so things that are only mentions of it, and variations on it, are not examples.'''

 

Compare [[Martyrdom Culture]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': [[Broken Bird|Kagura]] is enslaved to [[The Corrupter|Naraku]] but is [[Determinator|determined]] to obtain her freedom. [[Implied Love Interest|Sesshoumaru]] warns her that her path will lead to her death if she's not careful, but she persists anyway because there is no other alternative for her. Eventually, even though she knows it will cost her life to do so, she [[Heroic Sacrifice|saves]] [[Designated Victim|Kohaku]] from being killed by Mouryoumaru and is promptly killed by Naraku. Bittersweet because she realises as she's dying that the only way she could ever gain her freedom [[I Die Free|was by dying]], but that it is true freedom. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] later on by Mouryoumaru when he accidentally triggers Sesshoumaru's [[Berserk Button]] by insulting Kagura's willingness to die for her freedom, an ideal and death he views as worthless.

* Trope name comes from Patrick Henry, a melodramatic patriot in [[The American Revolution]].

** An interesting subtrope: in that same Revolution, the British government promised freedom to any colonial slave who ran away and joined the loyalist army. Thousands did, evidently preferring the risk of death on the battlefield to the certainty of a life in chains if the colonists won independence.

** There were also a number of slave revolts, even though the slaves knew there was a high chance they'd be crushed by the militia and executed.

* Haiti might be the only country that started with a successful slave rebellion. Unfortunately, it lacked the leadership that could have made it a successful nation afterward.