About one hundred and fifty-five years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave “The Gettysburg Address” on a blood soaked battlefield in Pennsylvania (Brown). “The Gettysburg Address” was first verbalized months after the battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts & Summary). “The Gettysburg Address” was meant to reinvigorate the Union populace’s desire to bring the Confederacy back into the United States. “The Gettysburg address” also capitalizes on the emotions that resulted from a battle where there were a
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The Gettysburg Address appeals to the patriotism of the audience and their sense of urgency. Pathos is used to evoke their sense of patriotism in the very first line. In that beginning sentence, he mentions the nations founding fathers and their role in establishing the nation we now know today as the United States of America. Lincoln says,” 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” (Brown). This line refers to the story of our nation’s founding, a story which is meant to make the Union remember a time when there was no confederacy, no union, a time when there was one country. The tale was meant to tap in to the audience’s patriotism, in to their nationalism, and in to their need to see their country put back together …show more content…
Lincoln, meant to give a mission to the audience. The goal of that mission was to fight for the cause that the Union soldiers lost their lives for. This call for rededication to reunification turned into stressing that their cause is something their forefathers would have been proud of by Lincoln saying “... 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” (Brown). Lincoln included in the ending statement of “The Gettysburg Address” references to the founding of the United States such as “...this nation, under God…” and “...of the people, by the people, for the people…” are clear signs of Pathos being used to persuade the
The Gettysburg Address appeals to the patriotism of the audience and their sense of urgency. Pathos is used to evoke their sense of patriotism in the very first line. In that beginning sentence, he mentions the nations founding fathers and their role in establishing the nation we now know today as the United States of America. Lincoln says,” 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” (Brown). This line refers to the story of our nation’s founding, a story which is meant to make the Union remember a time when there was no confederacy, no union, a time when there was one country. The tale was meant to tap in to the audience’s patriotism, in to their nationalism, and in to their need to see their country put back together …show more content…
Lincoln, meant to give a mission to the audience. The goal of that mission was to fight for the cause that the Union soldiers lost their lives for. This call for rededication to reunification turned into stressing that their cause is something their forefathers would have been proud of by Lincoln saying “... 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” (Brown). Lincoln included in the ending statement of “The Gettysburg Address” references to the founding of the United States such as “...this nation, under God…” and “...of the people, by the people, for the people…” are clear signs of Pathos being used to persuade the