Rhetorical Analysis on Gun on the Shelf

Rhetorical Analysis on Gun on the Shelf

The gun on the shelf is quite a quality article as it approaches scholar article using plain works. The author tends to apply the technique that putting the quote out there directly and then interpret it word by word to speak out his opinion to the article. In the part:

For example the “Bird-Man Hallucination” parallels Lady MacBeth. Riggan’s alter-ego Bird-Man (a superhero that Riggan had portrayed previously that is the movie's analog to Bat-Man) is a hallucination that consistently antagonizes Riggan and leads him to do things he is.

The structure of his article is rather clear. He made out his point that Macbeth and Birdman are parallel articles. Then he brings out the historical article to speak on his side. For most film review, sometimes the author are not clearly so popular compared to the original creator of the story . Thus, he just mentioned the names worthy of mentioning and then explain these article step by step. Finally, what he did is that he brings his own part of the film to match the article he tried to bring out so that the audience would have a solid idea of what he’s trying to explain.

  The second technique is rather simple. Is to mix his words with the authors’ using large amount of quotation.

I believe that if a character is “bastardized” it is designed to serve a purpose, and in this case that “bastardization” of Lady MacBeth into “Bird-Man” is to establish Riggan as a Macbeth character, and we all know that a MacBeth character is a slave to fate and prophecy. The movie even quotes MacBeth, specifically the following speech

Instead of using a large amount of words to explain what the article is all about, the author actually used the words directly with a proper quotation. So that the meaning of the words got pointed out directly.

  When talking about ideology, it’s best that we use the first technique so that we don’t mislead the audience while for a film scene analysis, the second technique is fine since it pretty much go with the flow. Overall, both of them are a very powerful technique to go with.