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The Gettysburg Address Analysis

Caleb Pachel

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

  • Abe was born on February 12, 1809
  • He was elected November 6, 1860
  • He was the 16th president (1861-1865)
  • He was assassinated on April 14, 1865
  • He was 56 years old when he died
  • He was remembered as one of the greatest American figures, for his efforts to end the civil war, and later end slavery in the United States.

Fun Facts about Abe

The Time Frame

  • Abe was the tallest president, standing at 6 feet, 4 inches.
  • Abe was the first president with a beard.
  • He was the first president to hold a patent, his was for a mechanism that could change the buoyancy of a steam boat
  • In 1818 he almost died because of a horse kicking him in the head.

Abraham Lincoln gave the speech because the Union had won the Battle of Gettysburg.

The Gettysburg

Address

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.”

“But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

President Abraham Lincoln - November 19, 1863

What was the purpose

The Audience

The intended audience for the Gettysburg Address was the whole nation. To acknowledge the Union Soldiers more specifically.

The purpose of the speech was to acknowledge the victory and sacrifice at Gettysburg and the turning point of the Civil War, and to remember the casualties.

Use of Pathos

Use of Ethos

The use of pathos is definitely the one most used. In the speech, Abraham Lincoln kept on saying "we" and "our". He made it seem like the whole nation was very close, trying to work as a team.

The use of ethos is used quite a bit in this speech. He uses it when he said "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it."

Use of logos

Abe uses logos in his speech when he said "all men are created equal," and when he said "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."

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