Gettysburg address

     This is a brief analysis of the gettyburg address. The Gettyburg address is a speech made by Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States during the Civil War, immediately following the battle of Gettysburg. Many men died during this battle and Lincoln used this in his speech to increase the dedication of the people of the union to winning the war. The speech primarily relies upon pathos. The speech talks about the sacrifice of the men who died there and how to not win the war would be for them to have died in vain. He also mentions liberty and freedom throughout the speech, giving the feeling that winning the war would be essential for the liberty of the United States. He does not give exact statistics or logical arguments but uses the emotional effect to great advantage. He does not appeal to ethos in his speech. In fact, he discredits his own speech in order to put more emphasis on the men by saying how people would forget the speech but never forget the men who died in the battle.