Comparing Pericles Speech to Lincoln's Speech

1. Intro
1. Funeral Orations are speeches given  to honor and memorialize the soldiers  who died at battle. They are honoring them and thanking them for what they did.
2. Lincoln's speech was given to honor all the soldiers who fought in the civil war. Many of them died or were injured and he was giving them good credit and praising them for their hard work. They put their lives at risk for their country.
3. Pericles' speech was given to honor
4. Thesis- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address speech was stronger than Pericles because he had a better appeal to patriotism;  appeal to pride; and appeal to honor]
2. Appeal to patriotism
1. Lincoln-"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." (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/gettys.htm )
2. Pericles- "Such is the Athens for which these men, in the assertion of their resolve not to lose her, nobly fought and died; and well may every one of their survivors be ready to suffer in her cause. " (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html )
3. Appeal to pride
1. Lincoln- "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." (http://odur.let.rug.nl~usa/P/al16/speeches/gettys.htm )
2. Pericles- " For Athens alone of her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater than her reputation, and alone gives no occasion to her assailants to blush at the antagonist by whom they have been worsted, or to her subjects to question her title by merit to rule."  (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html )
4. Appeal to nation
1. Lincoln- "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/gettys.htm )