Analysis Of Margaret Thatcher's Eulogy To President Ronald Reagan

The words Margaret Thatcher used in her eulogy to former president Ronald Reagan, perfectly embodies how America should act in the current war we are fighting in the Middle East. She used many different appeals to get the purpose across to the citizens of America to show how we should react and handle to the situations we are continually fighting against terrorism. She uses many different examples and appeals to do so; parallelism, logistical, and emotional.

Thatcher wanted to produce evidence of how Reagan was an amazing man, thus showing why we should respond to this issue the way he did to the war on communism. She did this by parallelizing the Cold War, to the current war we are fighting in the Middle East. Even though this eulogy was presented in 2004, it is still prevalent in today’s society. We are still presently fighting against the awful thing that is terrorism. While we don’t have troops in combat in the Middle East physically fighting this issue, we still have to confront it everyday. Dealing with attacks and aftermath of previous happenings. Thatcher wanted to show us that we can deal with this in less aggressive ways, similar to how Reagan did. She showed an example of

this by saying how he ended the Cold War without firing a single shot. She did this to provide illustrations showing that he was successful in doing so.
Further proving this, she used many logical and factual examples.

She focused specifically on the Cold War and how he handled these dealings with communism. She explained that they worked closely together during his presidency. For example, she talked about America becoming allies with the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Taking into consideration what they were going through with Iraq at the time of the eulogy, she was ultimately proposing the idea that America could try this approach when facing the situation. When this was just beginning in 2004, we did not realize the severity and length of what we were going to have to face, that being, the current war on terrorism. She is attempting to demonstrate how it worked with Reagan, to show why we should try to implement this in our

lives.
Thatcher used an emotional appeal to make an effort to unite America in the conflicts with Iraq. She wanted to put a view on how it would help if we could all come together to try to resolve the crisis. She started out by telling the audience that they were great friends; from the start of the tribute displaying a sense of closeness with Reagan. She even called him Ronnie, conveying the close relationship they had. She explained in detail how Reagan made friends with the enemy in order to help with the battle to end communism. She wants us to do the same in a sense. Be able to find positives in situations and make friends with the enemy to help a cause. This was emotional because she explained how he stepped forward to shake the hand and offer cooperation. This as well as using a few points to mourn the loss of a great man in America and her life.
Ultimately, Thatcher wanted to express that we need to help the controversy happening in the Middle East and mirror what great things Ronald Reagan did as president and long after. She did this by paralleling this event with the Cold War. As well as using logical and emotional appeals to make America believe that they can do great things if they took the right approach in order to reach the ultimate outcome which is, defeat the terrorism.