the tear down this wall speech was given at the brandenburg gate.
the tear down this wall speech was given at the brandenburg gate.
where was the tear down this wall speech given?
at the brandenburg gate
kornblum elaborated on the complex diplomacy which preceded president reagan's speech at the brandenburg gate in an article entitled "reagan's brandenburg concerto" (an allusion to the complex work of the brandenburg concertos by bach), which appeared in the may/june 2007 issue of "the american interest" and was reprinted in the german newspaper "die welt" on june 12, 2007. kornblum disclosed that reagan's delivery of the speech at the most dramatic site along the berlin wall was planned for more than a year in advance by u.s. diplomats in germany and washington as a counterweight to the growing sentiment within germany for an arrangement with the new, liberal soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. many germans had begun to hope that in exchange for legal acceptance of the sovereignty of east germany, the west could obtain the inclusion of west berlin into west germany and a gradual opening of the wall. any such deal with gorbachev would have undermined hopes for a speedy german reunification and the liberation of eastern europe. reagan's dramatic challenge to gorbachev to "tear down this wall" was anything but an ad hoc remark. it was conceived by kornblum and his team as a memorable slogan for a broader american initiative to remind both east and west that the united states was not willing to accept an undemocratic status quo in the center of europe. the speech included a number of proposals to accelerate democratic change by making the wall more porous, and thus helped gorbachev to open it. kornblum's article goes on to describe the many political pressures exerted in germany and washington as this initiative was being implemented and concludes with reflections on the significance of the speech from a perspective 20 years later.
john c. kornblum
the dramatic speech given by hecuba in book xiii of the "metamorphoses" is the last full monologue of the epic. both the first and last full monologues of this epic are delivered by women, which lends itself to analyzing the development of the female portrayal throughout the piece.medea's speech, previously discussed, is rash and scattered, illustrating her emotional distress, while also showing the beginnings of the female oratory in the poem. in contrast, hecuba's speech is polished and refined, showing not only the dignity of the fallen queen, even in her darkest times, but also emphasizing the growth of the portrayal of women throughout the epic. hecuba's lame over her daughters dead body also recalls back to the small speech given by thisbe in book iv. though thisbe is not given a full monologue, she makes use of the lines she is given to lament over the death of her love pyramus. hecuba draws on the tragic themes presented in thisbe's lamentation and expands upon them, expressing the death of a daughter instead of a lover. hecuba's speech opens with her asking the gods what else she could possibly lose, after having her family slaughtered, her city sacked, and herself taken as a prisoner. this theme of all being lost to war and death is a common one throughout the world of ancient tragedy. this theme is most clearly illustrated in aeschylus' great trilogy the oresteia and in sophocles' trilogy on oedipus. as in hecuba's speech, characters from the works of aeschylus and sophocles both lament their great losses and what has led them to this point. one of the best examples of this theme that ovid so clearly draws upon is the speech given by a messenger in oedipus rex that tells of the death of jocasta and the blinding of oedipus. this famous speech follows in the same theme of that given by hecuba, previous actions and the fates that lead characters to destruction and death.
tragedy in ovid's metamorphoses