Melania Trump's Speech Analysis

The speech that I am going to examine, is that of Melania Trump. This speech took place at the GOP convention on July 19th. Melania was set to open for her republican nominee presidential candidate, Donald Trump. In every aspect of the speech it was successful and powerful in delivering a message. However, there was a strange similarity in her speech. It sounded as though we had heard it before. As many began to realize, her speech indeed did sound like a speech we had all heard before. Who’s was it, that it had such striking similarity to? Michelle Obama and her speech she delivered at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
When Melania presented her speech, she was delivering it to thousands of people publicly and millions as it was televised.
The speech was successful at first, as the crowd responded with cheering and applauses. But as the speech went on people were almost confused. Could she have really taken a speech from the previous First Lady? And that was exactly what she did. The purpose of this speech was to deliver a powerful message about what her and her husband support and seek to uphold in this country. A rather important speech, as it would determine if you would gain or lose support from millions. These same speeches in the past have been marked as famous important speeches and can influence the public vastly.
In 2008 Michelle Obama delivered a compelling speech about the values that she and her family uphold; and what she and her husband want to see the country uphold as well. The speech in itself was not very long but it was able to convey exactly what was needed. It spoke about the current generation and also the generation to come. In the end this speech that Michelle conferred was a perfect speech.
In 2016 at the GOP Convention Melania Trump also delivered a speech.
The speech started out strong by reaching out to the audience and becoming personal with them. It talked about the current generation and the next to come. It talked about standards that her and her Husband uphold and seek to uphold in this country. The only strange thing about this speech was the fact that almost eighty-five percent of it was copied from Michelle’s 2008 speech. This is wrong in many different aspects. One being that this speech is set in one of the biggest public events of the nation and is also televised. Millions of people have now seen her speech and noticed the stark similarities between her speech and Michelle’s. Plagiarism is something that is looked down on and seen as being a dishonest person. This event caused the support of thousands to leave the side of the Trump’s, because of the dishonesty she represented.
It may seem as though this speech was not successful in bringing support from the nation to their side. Per contra this speech brought a different type of success. It gained media coverage, thousands of newspapers and media groups wrote about this event causing a lot of attention to the event. Even though it might not be positive media, it brought scrutiny to it which opens the door to looking at some of the positive sides of the Trumps campaign. In the end, the speech was a powerful one; but when its copied from a prior First Lady it loses its
aunthicity.