Summary:
Three examples of legendary speeches that combined theme and form with structure and message: "No Evil can Happen to a Good Man" by Socrates, Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," and Paul Keating's "Funeral Service of the Unknown Soldier."
This speech of Socrates, delivered in 399 BC, comes from Plato's Apology- (defence) and is Plato's account of the speech Socrates gave to the court established to hear a case for Socrates' execution on the grounds that he had failed to worship the Athenian Gods, rejected democracy and corrupted the morals of the young. His accusers consisted of Meletus, a poet, Anytus, a rich master tanner and Lycon an orator who represented the rhetoricians and intellectuals. He says in the speech he is doing God's bidding and has always been ethical in what he has done. Interestingly, after he is found guilty he stands to speak again and invokes the wrath of the jury by stating that young men will always listen to his worthy words. For this he is given the death penalty. Again he.....
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