Question: what is the significance of pretorius's miniatures
Answer: 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