Abraham Lincoln's 'The Gettysburg Address'

1. In “The Gettysburg Address”, Abraham Lincoln advances the idea that for the honor of citizens and soldiers, dead or alive, its necessary for the nation to come together and reestablish the country’s democratic ethics that were blinded from the civil war.
2. Lincoln’s allusion to the Declaration of Independence, claiming that “all men are created equal”, results in the audience believing that to unite the nation again, they need to restore their democratic values, as the ones stated in the declaration.
3. Lincoln’s reverent tone, constructed through words like “dedicated”, “hallow”, “brave” and “consecrate”, appeals to our sense of emotion, thereby convincing us that the people involved in the civil war, both dead or alive, deserve respect