Heroism is when someone shows great bravery or fearlessness to do something. Both of these speeches were given on the fact of heroic citizens in the past. The “Funeral Oration” was given to the soldiers who not only showed patriotism but heroism as they fought in the Peloponnesian War. This is the same as the address to the nation which was not only given to explain what happened but to also pay tribute to the heroes that were amongst us. Heroes that “rushed up flights of stairs toward peril” and “defied the hijackers and ran the plane in to the ground to spare other lives”. These people, random citizens, showed heroism by risking their lives to improve and save others.
