Nikki Gemmell’s ‘It’s a Beastly Spectacle’ is an opinion piece published in The Weekend Australian Magazine. Her audience, mostly being Australian citizens would be unaware of the recent controversy surrounding bullfighting as it is traditionally practiced in Spain. However, Gemmell exposes the barbaric practice of bullfighting to the Australian public and effectively persuades her audience against the sport. Australian citizens are known to have high moral values and a sense for ‘what is right’ consequently Gimmel utilizes this appeal to a sense of justice to convey the animal cruelty involved in bullfighting. She also uses juxtaposition when comparing the matador to the bull to show the unfairness of the sport and she shares her experience