In class Outline

I. Gettysburg Address vs. Pericles
A. Gettysburg Address
1. This speech happens during the American Civil War, which was a right between the Union and the Confederacy. He gives the speech about two thirds way through the war.
2. Now Lincoln is saying, more like asking if the nation will survive through the war. ”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)
B. Pericles
1. He gave this speech during the Athens and Sparta war. He gave this speech during the beginning of the war.
2. He says that they have done everything they could do for the war. “We have forced every sea and land to be the highway of our daring, and everywhere, whether for evil or for good, have left imperishable monuments behind us.” (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html)
C. Thesis
1. The Gettysburg address was a more appealing speech to the people and families who have lost someone in their family in the war because, not only is his speech shorter, which would keep people interested, he is clearer and says more about honoring the dead and what they did for the nation, unlike Pericles’ speech witch talks more about Athens and the country then he talks about individual people.
II. Appeals more to the families
A. Gettysburg Address
1. In his speech he says that they need to horror the people who died, and that they will never be forgotten for what they did. “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)
B. Pericles
1. He only touches upon the topic of horning the dead. “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) This quote is the very last sentence of the speech.