Margaret’s Personal Life

40 with the way of speaking as all women do in general. It was better to pay attention only on the WHAT rather than on HOW she delivered her speech. Margaret was always highly aware of her femininity. Although she worked together with men, it does not mean that she becomes the same as men. On the other occasions, Margaret has also shown her proud of being the woman among men. Scene : 434 Time : 00:42:03,388 - 00:42:30,088 “It’s all very well to talk about changing my voice, Mr. Reece, but for some of my colleagues to imagine me as their leader would be like imagining, I don’t know, being led into battle by their chambermaid. It’s my background and my sex. No matter how I’ve tried, and I have tried, to fit in, I will never be truly one of them”. This conversation occurred when she and her colleagues discussed the prospect or possibility to become the leader of the party. Her colleagues gave advice on attributes or clothing worn by Margaret. All those attributes need to be changed. They also needed to change the tone and intensity of Margaret’s voice because a high female voice was considered as not charismatic voice. Margaret tried to attend voice practices, but she still realizes that no matter how hard she tried to change her voice tone, she certainly could not change her sex and femininity background. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 41

c. Female Identity Crisis

This characteristic is the characteristic of a woman who has the dilemma when she tries to decide whether she wants to be a full career woman and become the breadwinner of her family or to be a good motherhousewife Friedan, 1997, p: 75. As a true post-feminist figure, Margaret has a strong character. The characteristic of post-feminist characteristics, namely Female Identity Crisis is the fewest appear in the language used by Margaret. The researcher has found only tree occurrences of this characteristic in the language used by Margaret in The Iron Lady movie. Scene : 1045 Time : 01:31:12,851 - 01:31:19,226 “All those years of taking the tough decisions, does any of it matter now ?” This language has occurred when Margaret decided to offer her resignation after eleven and a half years as a Prime Minister. However, this language did not strongly proved that Margaret live-out the female identity crisis’ characteristic. For the researcher herself, she thinks that this kind of language is about a deep reflection after a great and gentle decision on her resignation.

B. People Reactions on Margaret Thatcher’s Political Decisions

There were some factors that affected people reaction. Based on “The Iron Lady” movie, the researcher has found two general factors that can cause people reactions. Those factors were namely the doer of PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI