Using the Aristotelian Analysis, the reader can decipher the speech identifying the speaker, audience, and the subject, which all tie in with three rhetorical appeals. Abraham Lincoln, the appeals to ethos, talks about how this nation was created under Liberty, and how the founding fathers admired the thought that all men were created equal. The introduction in the speech emphasizes the shared concern, which is their once united nation falling apart, that the audience had about the war that was occurring. The people in the crowd are listening to Lincoln’s clear, rational ideas, a form of Logos, and they are filled with hope from his strong statements. When the audience hears Lincoln say, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we
