Maryse Conde’s book “I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem” and Art Spiegelman’s “Maus Vol. I: My Father Bleeds History” and “Maus volume II: And Here my Troubles Began”, are thoughtful narrations of historical events that provide insight to the thoughts and feelings of the powerless during what can be considered the greatest points of social inequality and racial profiling. While Conde’s book is about Slavery and Spiegelman’s is about the Holocaust, there are resonating commonalities that relate the books to one another such as love, racism, social stratification, and power. Power is defined as the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. There are five different influences of power: coercive power,
