Comparing Hitchcock And The Birds By Daphne Du Maurier

In this essay, the movie The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock and short story called “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier will be compared using their similarities and differences. In the story, a man and his family were being tortured by big flocks with a variety of different birds. The birds come and go quite frequently attacking children and adults. The birds are annoyingly throwing themselves against window and houses. Throughout the story however, the people discover that it may be a form of suicide for the birds. Although du Maurier’s story and Hitchcock’s film portray the same major conflict and theme. The other story elements are very different.

In this paragraph, two comparisons between the story and movie will be made. The first similarity between the two is the fact that the birds are out to attack the humans. In both the movie and the story, birds are always going after the people, swooping down at their heads putting deep cuts into them. The second similarity is is that there is no

The first, obvious, difference between them, is that most of the movie took place in a town or city, not a country or farm like in the story. I definitely liked the story version with the farm much better than the city setting. I felt like it was cleaner and easier to understand whereas the movie’s town setting made it a bit more hectac. Although the city gave the plot more action, I thought, the farm made it more spooky and creepy, which I preferred. The last difference is the fact that the main character in the the movie was a female, when the main character in the story is a male. I strongly feel that the romance between two people in the movie was unnecessary compared to the short story where the family that most of the story is about, is involved much more in the birds, rather than a relationship some couple is trying to maintain or create. In this case, the story was better than the