“The Animal Mirror” by Timothy Clarke is an analysis on the way animals are represented in literature, art, and reality. The end of his introduction brings to light his major question that he searches to answer through the rest of the article; “This will bring to us the challenge of anthropomorphism. How to represent animal lives in human language and culture without illusion or injustice?” (Clarke, 179). His question solidifies the idea that animals are in fact represented through human aspects like our language and culture, and so brings to light the concept of is there a way to represent animals without lying to ourselves, without lying to them? The article covers the two seperate theoretical approaches to animals, the first being the ecological
