Macbeth - bird imagery In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the use of birds helps describe a character in an inhumane way. It compares a character to the natural world and its natural surroundings. The focus on the natural imagery of birds characterizes the unnatural images that build up and grow around certain characters, according to Shakespeare’s time. The Captain telals King Duncan how, just at the moment when Macbeth's forces defeated Macdonwald's rebels, the Norwegian king attacked the Scottish. King Duncan asks if this new attack dismayed Macbeth and Banquo. The Captain, trying to be humorous in a manful manner, says: “Yes, as sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion”(1.2.39). The Captain is comparing the predator to its prey in order to describe the way Macbeth and Banquo reacted to the....

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