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The Importance of Animals in Nature
Shakespeare used animals as symbols of God's beneficence in his plays. The Pelican was always seen as an emblem of Christ because it was said to pierce its breast and with its blood feed its children. That notion is found in, say, King Lear and all of Shakespeare's plays. It created a kind of opposition between what one saw in the natural world and what one thought one ought to see in thenatural world.