Rhetorical Analysis Of Lincoln's Inaugural Address

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The speech was a remake of the country after the most devastating civil war in American history. It exemplifies the highest responsibility of all the survivors for the cause of freedom of the nation because of how many soldiers have fallen. It reaffirms the ideal of freedom, equality, etched into the United States Declaration of Independence, of the Jefferson spirit, as immutable truths, and affirms the spirit of Responsibility of All Citizens. protect and create that ideal.

Lincoln understood the intrinsic motivation of the war, the escalation of hatred, as Clausewitz says, in which great aspirations can turn into wilderness. So he did not want to deepen the wound of the nation, but want to heal, bandage more. Lincoln does not distinguish