The wild things immediately become subjective to Max as soon as he enters their home. I related that to a representation of the human-animal relationship. When humans show up unannounced into an animal’s habitat, the animals are instinctively “frightened” of the abnormality. I also found it interesting that the wild things were so quick to immediately obey Max’s rule because in the book it says he uses a magic trick, but for our analysis, could that be the animals responding out of pure fear or for their lives/well-being? I think the wild things are depicted as the opposite of humans by the repetition of “terrible” when describing their physical attributes. To me, that just reveals the narrow view of wild animals that the author, Maurice Sendak,
