A Philosopher once asked, "do humans wear animal masks, or do animals wear human masks?". Art Spiegelman provides a perspective on this in his graphic novel. Through Maus, Spiegelman conveys that humans are animals. He establishes this through his simple story between good and bad characters and how they are easily provoked to hate each other. The majority of Spiegelman's characters are drawn as animals. They enunciate the relationships of the different nations, races, and religions. Jewish characters are drawn as mice. German's are drawn as cats. Poles are drawn as pigs. Finally Americans are drawn as dogs. Mice are hunted by cats, they have a predator-prey relationship. Jews are hunted by Nazis in Maus, thus they reflect the animals they are. Poles reflect this as well. They are drawn as pigs, pigs don't have a typical relationship to mice or cats which is displayed in the Poles position in the war. They don't want to be involved or show favor to the Jews or the Germans. The animals also prove the categories (nations, races, and religions) to be false. Human beings reading the graphic novel will not focus on specific species, but classify all the characters as animals. Spiegelman conveys through this that Humans should be seen as humans, as one whole species, and not as categories. Maus is a story about people. The characters differentiate in species, nationalities, and religions but they all are drawn in black and white. Black and white represent opposites in their simplest form: good and evil, right and wrong. Consequently, the story is about the simple struggle between good and evil characters. The Jews are constantly being persecuted by the Nazis; good VS evil. As the characters portray humans, Spiegelman infers that humans are good or they're bad. However, the allegory falls apart. Not all of the good characters (mice for example) are universally good. Just as all of the evil characters are not invariably bad. The allegor