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Macbeth - Bird Imagery
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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,
accordi ....
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temple-haunting martlet, does approve, /By his loved mansionry, that the
heaven's breath/ Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,/ Buttress, nor coign
of vantage, but this bird/ Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle”
(1.6.3-8). A "martlet" is a kind of swallow, who is "temple-haunting"
because it likes to build its nests high on the walls of tall buildings
("Haunting" doesn't have any ghostly connotations). When Lady Macbeth
heard that King Duncan was coming for the night, .... |
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