i'm only a little bit of a way into redwall but already i kind of love how because there's no species that is a stand in for humans and all animals are treated as being "sapient" they seem to just need to kind of grapple with the fact that there are predators and prey in the world, and the mice are both predators and prey, and so are very aware of the contradictions in needing to eat and not wanting to be eaten.
i hope this gets explored further
