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Imagery of dead birds can have several different meanings in a variety of cultures, but the most common application is symbolic of a loss of freedom. Due to the fact that birds are not Earth-bound like humans, they tend to represent freedom in literature, poetry and art. Therefore, dead birds often represent a loss of freedom, imprisonment or paralysis.

“Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards, and this chain of cause and pretext stretches back to the Palaeolithic age, when the first Cain of one tribe murdered the first Abel of another. All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a people who are the victims of one time become the victimisers a generation later, and newly liberated nations resort immediately to the means of their former oppressors. The triple contagions of nationalism, utopianism and religious absolutism effervesce together into an acid that corrodes the moral metal of a race, and it shamelessly and even proudly performs deeds that it would deem vile if they were done by any other.” 
― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings - Unabridged

Bearskin or The Man Who Didn't Wash for Seven Years. One of a series of American Adaptations of classic folktales by Tom Davenport

From the Brothers Grimm: Bearskin

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Occasionally, a lovely moment resonates. The King's wish: ''To be able to love with courtesy.'' The prizefighter's prayer: ''Help me to win without killing my opponent.''But the show-stealer is the actor you don't see -- Anthony Stropoli. He's inside Gorky's skin. Gorky is the bear, very animated.
The director, Pamela Moller Kareman, searches for ways Saroyan's platitudes can fly on wings of poetry, but in the end, a dead bird is a dead bird. This one never even had wings.

''The Cave Dwellers'' by William Saroyan. The Schoolhouse Theater, 3 Owens Road, Croton Falls. Performances through May 12. Box office: (914) 277-8477.

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