Happiness In Art Spiegelman

Within the lives of humanity around the world, we cope with the evil in the world. Constantly reminded of the torments of everyday life, poked in the back by false breaks in the suffering of others and hoping to wake up another day with a purpose. Happiness is a sweet treat for all of the humanity, it’s given to many but taken away from much more. When happiness is taken away from all areas of life; for example, Auschwitz and other concentration death camps. How could prisoners escape the reality of suffering, death, and abuse all concentrated upon themselves? Within the writings of Victor Frankl and the visual novel of Art Spiegelman, ways of coping are shown. The main idea of regaining any trace of happiness is to hold onto hope, followed …show more content…
As in Spiegelman’s work, a woman decides death by choice is better than death by force. There is a sick sense of happiness in this act, of killing yourself and your children to protect them from the horrors of what could have come. It’s a victory against the oppressor, as they didn’t feel their own joy of killing another family. Even with Frankl’s predicament he said involved himself with the extracurricular activities that were available. Including, poetry, acting and caring for the sick. If happiness is to bring joy to another or expression or self, he touched this happiness to continue living through suffering. Making a prisoner laugh instead of cry is better than seeing no smile or light at all. Suffering is the destruction of the soul, yet happiness is the cure to suffering. If you suffer as you do something that makes you happy; for an example being an artist. Spiegelman is an example of such. Creating a visual novel to explain a life of suffering, with mice as the instruments to be humans and dark humor thrown in. Happiness is achieved in setting aside the melancholy of the …show more content…
Suffering itself is a chance to realize what has been lost. What has been taken for granted? Where did the happiness of oneself come from in the first place? Escaping suffering isn’t about casting a shadow on how we suffer but it’s the why do we suffer. Are we suffering because we allow it? Is it pushed upon humanity? Do we choose to suffer because it is said that suffering is all we have left? Suffering is the instrument to find happiness, you cannot find happiness unless you are sad and want to make a change. Victory or triumph doesn’t exist unless there is a failure. A simple thought to all of the suffering and how humanity finds happiness in said suffering is that; we enjoy suffering unless it is out of our control. Obsession with finding happiness is suffering in itself. When others tell you to be happy, there’s a conflict of happy for me or happy for you? When you are placed in an unfamiliar situation full of chaos and suffering, not by choice the thought is; I am unhappy! I want to be happy! I want to get out! The true source of happiness in all suffering…is the self. Without it, there is nothing. Happiness consists of choice, love, laughter, and the survival of self. Even in the darkest of times, these will exist and always will for