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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
42 reactions and how were the reactions performed. The researcher has
decided to analyze two general groups of the doer; internal and external. The internal reactions were divided into two types of doer; family and the
members of Margaret’s party, so do with the external reactions; opposition party and wide rebellion. The two types of people reactions appeared in
several occurrences that were found by the researcher.
Table 4.2. Number of Occurrences of People Reactions
Number of Occurrences
Types of Reaction Internal Reaction
Mass Media External Reaction
Family Party
Words Actions
Opposition Party
Wide Rebellion
Action
6 Occurrences
21 Occurrences
40 Occurrences
15 Occurrences
19 Occurrences
3 occurrences
9 Occurrences
1. Internal Reactions
The Iron Lady movie is a biographical movie of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of Britain. In this movie, most of
the life stories of Margaret were shown. It told great stories of Margaret as a great Prime Minister who worshiped and admired throughout the world,
but it also told the stories of her suffering; have been rejected and hated by many people, even the closest people to her.
Through The Iron Lady movie, people could see the relationship between Margaret and her family; husband and children. The elderly
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43 imagination. Some people may ask; did she have children? And some may
answer; today, people may not live with their children in their elderly life. However, after watching this movie the researcher found some facts why
the great Margaret has to live alone in her elderly. Even though her daughter Carol coming by to visit her, but still she lives in loneliness.
People could see in the scene when Carol and Mark were still kids and Margaret has to leave them at the Parliament House for the first time.
The scene clearly showed how hard the little Carol and Mark ran after their mother
’s car to stop Margaret not to go and leave them. However, Margaret still has to go.
Another scene also showed the less harmonious of Margaret and Carol relationships. The scene told that Margaret has accompanied her
adult Carol in her driving practice. People could see how happy Carol was with her mother. However, after the short and great togetherness, when
Carol asked her mother to take her for the test drive, Margaret answers it by telling her decision to run for the leader of the party. At that moment,
people could see Carol’s reaction. She utters disappointment on seeing that
she has lost her mother already. “Silly me” Carol said and leaves the kitchen with the storms in her heart Scene: 378, Time: 00:38:30,053 -
00:38:31,834. Another reaction from her family on Margaret’s decision to run for
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