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 tells King Duncan how, just at the moment when Macbeth's forces defeated Macdonwald's rebels, the Norwegian …showed first 75 words of 738 total…

…showed last 75 words of 738 total…King Duncan. All of Shakespeare’s bird imagery quoted and explained are all related. They all symbolize death, either the sounds of it or the thoughts of it. The birds Shakespeare uses in this essay or evil, such as a raven or screech owl, and if not evil, such as a sparrow, than its contrasted with evil. Bird imagery adds definition to the unnatural images that accumulate certain characters throughout Shakespeare’s tragedy of Macbeth.