Rhetorical Analysis

 Marion A. Davis analyzes Shakespeare's Macbeth in an essay. He argue's that Lady Macbeth has a weakness because of her gender.  Davis paper seems that he is writing for one of his academic classes, the way that his paper is structured by his vocabulary, he is writing for a collage professor.  Although his paper is rather short, he makes valid points regarding his position and thesis. He knows what his take is on the novel and what he is writing about. He doesn't take forever to reach how he feels on his topic he is very straight forward and gets to the main idea from the get go. Lady Macbeth is who Davis is analyzing about her weaknesses, and the oppression on women as a whole. He talks about women who come from different back rounds, religious groups, different cultures, and classes.  Women could also be a targeted audience, women would be more interested in reading this article then men would. Davis talks about the way the women have and are evolving. Lady Macbeth is a bit of a rebel, and has rebels against society. He points out that she is some what courageous and stands on her own, when women in that time era weren't allowed per say to voice their opinion, and go against society. His thesis is very controversial because he is dealing with the topic on feminism. Both men and women would have room to make comments, on how they feel about the topic. The only resource that he uses as evidence to back up his topic is Shakespeare's novel Macbeth and thats it. However his evidence isn't always relevant to what his is trying to say, it doesn't always support his thesis. I think other articles dealing with feminism would definitely benefit his essay.  Maybe even asking other students that read the book and what they thought of the main character Lady Macbeth. He needs more resources to help prove his point. In his introduction he gives an overview of the novel and characterizes Macbeth, and gives his thesis at the end. Then he summarizes a certain chapter and part of the novel and gives a quote from the play as his evidence, and then follows by commentary and it continues. Basically his introduction is good, in his three body paragraphs he gives commentary and more quotes, until his conclusion paragraph. His essay is very high school structured the only thing that make it more sophisticated is his vocabulary. His transitions are his next thought and more evidence. Yes they do work well, and makes sense they aren't completely irrelevant. I wish he could go into more depth and not bring up other women and stayed focused on Lady Macbeth. Davis has a wide range of diction, his isn't using "big" words just to throw them out there like hey look what words I know and can spell. They relate back to what he is talking about, his language isn't very formal, it doesn't seem much like a collage essay in that regards. It's very short but it does get his main idea across in a formal matter.