Maus

In this panel of Maus, written by Art Spiegelman, it displays the mice living their daily lives and eating with their family. While all of that sounds normal of course... Yanno' mice eating dinner with their family at a table n' stuff; from the prospective this panel is drawn, it shows that the mice are being watched through the window. During the time period of the Holocaust, Jewish people were confined to curfews and other harsh rules by the German reign powered by the fist of Hitler. I feel as if the fact that the mice are being monitored by Nazi's, emphasizes the controlling and demeaning ways the Nazi's exercised their power over the Jews. Speigelman even takes the liberty of drawing curtains in this panel,  but the fact that the curtains are not in use, shows the amount of privacy the mice have.
Spiegelman's use of anthropomorphism refers to the Jewish people as mice and the Germans as cats. Meaning, the Jewish people are minor prey that the cat's will taunt before zoning in on their meal.  Spiegelman wrote " When first I came home it looked exactly so as before I went away...(Maus vol.1 pg 74)". Explaining that Vladek's life before he went away to war looked as if he never left, the dynamic of his family was something the Germans could not take away, even under constant surveillance.