Gettysburg Address Parallelism

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Critical Analysis of the Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln was one of our nation’s greatest presidents to date; having delivered more than ten speeches in his time as president. One of his most influential speeches and shortest to date is the Gettysburg Address. He moved a nation with just ten sentences and a total of 272 words that would resonate throughout history. In order to grasp the full meaning of this speech and what type of speech it was we have to remember that the Gettysburg Address was delivered in the middle of the civil war. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was meant to dedicate a plot of land that would later become a national cemetery for civil war soldiers. Instead, the speech rallied the troops to continue fighting. The purpose of the Gettysburg Address was to dedicate land to the fallen. However with the civil wars ever looming presence, the Gettysburg Address had an unexpected purpose, to persuade the living to continue to fight to end slavery in the south. I thoroughly believe that Lincoln’s speech accomplished its goal to persuade the north to continue to fight. It not only persuaded them but it inflamed the North’s passion and rage at slavery to win; bringing about the end of slavery. Lincoln also accomplished his original goal for …show more content…
An example of parallelism in the Gettysburg Address is, “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” (Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address). Lincoln was trying to persuade his audience that what you say will not always be remembered, but your actions and their repercussions will have a lasting impact; in the case of the Civil War an impact that helped to shape our nation. By using parallelism in his speech Lincoln not only made a lasting impression on his audience, this rallied the troops to win the war and help abolish slavery. This also left a lasting impression on future
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