what is the significance of pretorius's miniatures
Doctor Septimus Pretorius
Each figure represents a different character: a queen, which he claims was his first experiment, a king which is madly in love with the Queen and has a resemblance to Henry VIII, an archbishop which disapproves of what the King is doing, the Devil (a man in a black suit), a ballerina dancer, a mermaid (grown from "an experiment with seaweed") which lives in water