Daphne Du Maurier “The Birds” on environmental destruction caused by WWII

The cover that I’ve created to represent my interpretation of Daphne Du Maurier’s “The Birds” has multiple birds flying east over a forest fire whilst passing over barbed wire. I chose to create this cover in this manner because I wanted it to represent the destruction of nature during WWII whilst also representing the bird's violent actions in the text. The most prominent bird on the front cover is wearing a Nazi arm band. Since Daphne Du Maurier’s“The Birds” takes place in England post WWII, I placed a Nazi arm band on the birds wing because it is a reference to what is said in the text.“It is thought that the Arctic air stream, at present covering the British Isles, is causing birds to migrate south in immense numbers, and that intense hunger may drive these birds to attack human beings” (Mauier p 12). The text makes a connection between war and the birds because the texts discusses the birds on how they have immense numbers and hunger which I’ve interpret as a reference to Nazi Germany's air force who also have immense numbers and hunger for kills so that they would be able to claim territory. 

In the text the birds are attacking England using their bodies to break into families' homes to kill them. “It’s as though a madness seized them, with the east wind” (Maurier p 6). During WWII the atrocities of Nazism gave Nazi’s a saying/name when talked about, “East Wind,” this saying was formed from racist Nazi visions of Eastern Europe. I’ve add a compass on the top right of the cover as an example towards the birds being a reference to Nazi Germany. The Birds are violent with a lust for blood and revenge which I portrayed in my cover as the blood dripping from the most prominent bird beak.