Interpretations of une semaine de bonte by Max Ernst (in class)

What appears to be a body in the background, I interpret as the woman’s husband who has fallen down the stairs and has died, at which the rooster laughs at the widow’s misfortune.

The rooster seems to be a continuing death symbol; this time it is displayed preparing a woman’s body for burial.

The burial is preformed by roosters while another woman undresses.

Roosters tend to an object while one woman resides on an alter, while another has been slated for death (poison crossbones are visible).

Victorious, a murderer celebrates his kill (possibly a spouse?). Roosters are again present in the subject of death.


A rooster controls the movements of a woman in black, whom is either; possessed, doomed, or marked for death. A possible meaning of death controls us?

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