Daphne Du Maurier The Birds Analysis
Against Man…
The imagery of the short “The Birds,” by Daphne du Maurier, illustrates that how nature is more powerful than man. Nat is currently burying the birds he killed from last night’s attack, then he sees something shocking, “Then he saw them. The gulls. Out there riding the seas. What he thought at first to be whitecaps of the waves were gulls. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands …” (59). The hoard of birds coming towards Nat is showing how the birds united together to form a group to go against man. They’re working together to overpower man and united in a common mission. Nat and his family are hiding out in their boarded up house as Nat thinks about the birds, “He knew them of old, the herring gulls. They had no brains. The black-birds
The imagery of the short “The Birds,” by Daphne du Maurier, illustrates that how nature is more powerful than man. Nat is currently burying the birds he killed from last night’s attack, then he sees something shocking, “Then he saw them. The gulls. Out there riding the seas. What he thought at first to be whitecaps of the waves were gulls. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands …” (59). The hoard of birds coming towards Nat is showing how the birds united together to form a group to go against man. They’re working together to overpower man and united in a common mission. Nat and his family are hiding out in their boarded up house as Nat thinks about the birds, “He knew them of old, the herring gulls. They had no brains. The black-birds