Then he sees the ants in turn destroy the spider.
These pictures are shown on so large a scale that the spiderweb fills the end of the theatre.

Then the ant-tragedy does the same.

They can be classed as particularly apt hieroglyphics in the sense of chapter thirteen.

Their horror and decorative iridescence are of the Poe sort.
It is the first hint of the Poe hieroglyphic we have had except the black patch over the eye of the uncle, along with his jaundiced, cadaverous face.

The boy meditates on how all nature turns on cruelty and the survival of the fittest.
He passes just now an Italian laborer (impersonated by George Seigmann).
This laborer enters later into his dream.