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Question: Birds As Metaphors for the Female Experience: "The Birds" as a Revenge Narrative Marilyn Frye wrote an interesting articleLinks to an external site. explaining oppression and comparing it to the wires of a birdcage, suggesting that individual actions/feelings when looked at separately can seem innocuous, but when taken together act as a cage around its inhabitant. (I encourage you to read it.) Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, suggested, "Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away." And, taken together, Helena Habib argues of du Maurier's story that "the birds are not simply enacting humancentric anxieties, but rather avenging an oppression shared by both heroines and birds." Can you make an argument that du Maurier uses birds as a metaphor for women and the birds' rebellion as an act to combat oppression?