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Gettysburg Address And Thucydides, Pericles Funeral Oration

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Cameron Moore
Professor Bruns
World History
11 September 2017
Analysis on Gettysburg Address and Thucydides, Pericles’ Funeral Oration The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln and Thucydides, Pericles’ Funeral Oration share striking similarities, even though both documents originate from different time periods. The Gettysburg address talks about the civil war and the importance of keeping the union whole. The funeral oration talks about honoring the dead soldiers and comparing their society to the Athenian society, because they put their differences aside and tried to work towards the greater good for the city. The two documents seem to keep bringing up the dead and honoring what they did. That point about the dead remains the most obvious similarity between the two documents. …show more content…

Lincoln repetitively brings up the dead, the founding fathers and the soldiers that died on the Gettysburg battlefield. I interpreted his message as being respectful, courteous, and thankful towards the deceased that tried their best to defend the union and the United States. Lincoln gave an obvious message to the readers, don’t let the deceased people that defended the sovereignty of the nation die in vain. Thucydides, Pericles’ Funeral Oration shared a similar message to the Gettysburg Address. That message continued to live on through Lincoln’s speech, and that message was respect for the deceased. The Funeral Oration shows that soldiers who have fallen on the battlefield should be honored. It also mentions that the land they live on has been passed down from their ancestors, like America and its founding fathers. There seems to be a repetitive message about the dead dying in vain in both

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