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Effective Public Speaking: A Case Study and Thematic Analysis of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

This document provides an analysis of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address speech given in 1863. It discusses the context of the speech, highlights key passages, and analyzes Lincoln's rhetorical style and themes. The address was a short speech dedicated to soldiers who died in the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg. Through repetition, allusions, and parallel structures, Lincoln honored the soldiers and called others to continue their efforts to form a nation dedicated to liberty and equality.

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Effective Public Speaking: A Case Study and Thematic Analysis of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

This document provides an analysis of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address speech given in 1863. It discusses the context of the speech, highlights key passages, and analyzes Lincoln's rhetorical style and themes. The address was a short speech dedicated to soldiers who died in the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg. Through repetition, allusions, and parallel structures, Lincoln honored the soldiers and called others to continue their efforts to form a nation dedicated to liberty and equality.

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EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING

A Case study and Thematic Analysis of Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg Address

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INTRODUCTION

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TIMELINE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS- THE PLOT

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS-THE SPEECH


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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. 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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotionthat we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vainthat this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedomand that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS-THEMATIC ANALYSIS


Para 1: All men are created equal is an allusion to the Declaration of Independence. Para 2: We have come to dedicate ... is an antithesis to the phrase we cannot dedicate. Para 3: Three examples of anaphora are in this paragraph we cannot ...we cannot, say here . . . dedicate here . . . fought here, of the people, by the people . . . The phrases we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate . . . and of the people, by the people ... are also examples of asyndeton. Additionally, of the people, by the people, ... is another allusion to the Declaration of Independence.

The climax occurs at the sentence It is rather for us to be here . . . That these men have not died in vain. This is a call to arms for those gathered to commit to winning the war.

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS-FIRST PARAGRAPH


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.

Four score and seven was not a simple way to say 87. Four . . . score. The biblical ring of his opening words was rooted in Psalm 90. Lincoln built the Gettysburg Address upon a structure of past, present, and future. all men are created equal Proposition was the turning point of the speech wherein Lincoln shifted his from past ideas to present realities.

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS-SECOND PARAGRAPH


Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Establishes the moment of the speech in its precise political context. Lincolns use of repetition allowed him to underscore his rhetorical purpose.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

Establishes the justification for the audience to be at the event.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground.

But in a larger sense, were his clue to the audience. Use of two Latinate root words, consecrate and dedicate contained in parallel with a distinctly English root, hallow.

. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Here Lincoln employed a dramatic antithesis.

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS-LAST PARAGRAPH


The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Once again Lincoln places his identity among the audience, not as the leaders of the nation or speakers at the event. Lincoln pointed away from words to deeds.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

Empowers the audience to take inspiration from the deeds of the dead and continue the struggle for union. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion Emphasizes the passion of the dead to have fought and died for a mere cause.

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

The use of in vain which in the context of under God has Biblical implications. He consistently invoked God in most of his major speeches as president.

and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, is a perfectly parallel structure that essentially sums up the American democracy in 10 words.

PUBLIC SPEAKING LINCOLN STYLE


Shorter is sweeter
Play nice No sweat

Study the classics


Background, check Dont try to fake it

Giggles are good

OTHER GREAT SPEECHES OF LINCOLN


Lincoln's Lyceum Address


Lincoln's Address at Cooper Union Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

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