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Macbeth Falcon Quotes

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In Macbeth, I believe birds are an important symbol in the poem. The two birds in Macbeth’s poem are the owl and the falcon. The falcon represents the characters in the poem and death. In act two, scene two, lines 3-4, it states “It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, which gives the stern’st good-night”(2.2.3-4). In this quote, the owl witnesses the murder of King Duncan and decided to advertise it. In addition, the quote sites the owl witnessing the heinous murder of the King before the town’s people observed it. The owl’s ability to view the occurrence that the town’s people were unable to see, presented him with a humanistic knowledge that surpassed the town’s people cognition. In Act two, scene

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