Lincoln v. Pericles Outline

1. Intro
1. Pericles - talking about the great struggle to against the Persians to keep their lifestyle as Athenians
2. Lincoln talking about the sacrifice that was made by the men fighting for what they belief in
3. Made in different times different situations and its hard to compare them in terms of what they were about
4. Better to compare them about what they did for the people
5. Lincoln appears to touch the heart of the Americans and instills more pride, honor and gratitude in them, than Pericles Funeral Address.

2. Mourning
1. Both speeches seek to mourn the dead and appeal to the people to continue to endure
2. Lincoln had a harder time - further into the war - after one of the bloodiest battle on Union soil
3. Lincoln explains how they can never forget the men - great comfort to the families
4. "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." says that the most important thing isn't the speech but the action that was the reason for the speech
5. "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain" says that the deaths were for a reason and shall be revenged

3. Patriotism
1. Lincoln had a divided nation - Athens and Sparta had always been separated in some form
2. 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.
3. Stating that victory will be at hand and when it does there will be the same feeling of new freedom as there was after the revolution
4. Asks them to belief in their country

4. The cause
1. Fighting for the equality
2. Appeals for equal treatment - makes ties to the revolution again
3. "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"
4. Fighting over slavery and to hold the nation together
5. What was Pericles fighting for

5. Because of the circumstances Lincoln was able to instill more pride and patriotism, while mourning the dead and asking for the people to remember the cause.