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Why might art spiegelman have used animals instead of humans as characters what do the mice represent or symbolize

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Answer: Spiegelman used animals as metaphors for the Nazi hierarchical view of the world: Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, etc., tying in with Hitler's statements about the Jewish race.

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