Bring out the parallel suggested between the predatory instincts of the bird and human behaviour.

Ted Hughes’ “Hawk Roosting” narrates the internal power struggle of a hawk perceived through the technique of dramatic monologue. The situation of the hawk is similar with the condition of human beings who do not tend to illuminate on ideas or boundaries beyond the prescribed boundaries imposed by the society. Like humans, the animal world too, tends to gain authority. We all want to create a minuscule perspective of the world through our little vision and tend to formulate personal laws to perceive the large world. The hawk assumes the world from the position of where it is roosting and tries to uphold the authority of supreme upon himself, in absolute ignorance of the larger fallacies o the world. Similarly, it is with the humans as well, who try to usurp the dogmas of the world and manipulate them accordingly. Humans tend to assert themselves as the sole inheritor of power, just like the hawk does. The constant struggle for survival has made humans design themselves as the usurper of ultimate power. Humans believe themselves as the actual mediators of the world despite the little truth contained in this thought. The predatory, narcissistic and dogmatic instincts are very much present in humans, in a very similar line as the hawk suggests itself to be. Humans, like Hughes’s hawk, are foolish creatures who weave their own graves in their dreamy conjectures.