Tear Down This Wall Themes
Freedom and Tyranny
Which provocative little noun steals the spotlight in this speech? That's right: "freedom." Freedom, freedom, freedom. Unless we have absolutely zero understanding of the English language, it's mad...
Contrasting Regions: The East and the West
Considering that the official name of this speech is "Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin," it's not really too big of a stretch to conclude that it deals with…E...
Identity
After all that had gone on over the last forty years, a lot of Germans found themselves asking, "Who am I?" Reagan uses this speech to try to help answer that question—at least for the Western pa...
Warfare
Arms races are like potentially deadly games of One-Up. One side gets something cool, and the other side is all, "Oh yeah? Well check out what we can do." And then the first country is like, "Well,...
Perseverance
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.When the going gets tough, the tough get going.You gotta keep on keepin' on.There are a million clichés about hanging in there, sticking it out, gritting...