Macbeth: Imagery Of Animal Behavior And Class Status Advances

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However Lady Macbeth would find someone
else to get their feet wet, someone to do her dirty work.

In act 2 scene 4 line 15, the old man and Ross talk about the recent
murder. The old man says that the killer, an owl made sure no one was looking
and attacked the falcon and killed it. The owl, lower then the falcon on the
chain of being usually eats mice, which is low on the hierarchy. But this time
the owl eats the falcon whom is usually on the top of the hierarchy.

Later in the play during act 3 Macbeth talks bout the list of dogs and
the list of men. On line 140 in sc.1 Macbeth compares the murders with the
lowliest of dogs. In the next act, Act 4 three witches use very lowly animals
to describe Macbeths kingship. In sc. 1 lines 1-30 the witches say that
Macbeths is very similar to the hedgehog, toads and lizards. These animals
describe Macbeth in different ways. The hedge hog shows that Macbeth is as
greedy as a pig. The lizard shows that he is as slippery and ...

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