...reconceives the play's elaborate bird imagery, which is inaugurated by Lady Macbeth's murderous allusion, "The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan / Under my battlements" [1.5.37-9]. Dialogue references, sound effects, and filmic images are combined to form similar metaphors...

...Lennox: More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don't get out much. — Species (1997) Lady Macbeth: The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe...

...knowledge of all things. The croaking of the raven has a venerable literary tradition suggesting doom: "The raven himself is hoarse / that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan / under my battlements," Lady Macbeth declares (Macbeth I, 5). It is not by chance that common parlance refers to a "terror...

...are shifted across the species boundary; in Lady Macbeth 's remark about the messenger, for example, 'The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan / Under my battlements' (1.5.37—39). Or when the First Murderer's assertion, 'We are men, my liege', triggers Macbeth 's...

...impedes thee from the golden round Which Fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come you spirits That tend on human thoughts unsex me here 21 Of direst cruelty make thick my blood...