Maus Essay

In Maus II, Artie tells his wife Françoise that he feels guilty about having an easier life in the United States than his parents did in Poland and in the Holocaust (16). Furthermore, Artie explains to his psychiatrist Pavel that some of the only experiences he remembers having with his father are arguing with him and feeling that nothing he did could ever compare to Vladek’s accomplishments. He tells…

past short comic written by Art. This comic is found and read by his father who becomes upset by it and Art explains that he “never thought Vladek would see it” (pg. 101). The reader sees a glimpse of this comic before turning the page and leaving the Maus style behind, focusing on this dark, depressing comic. The story describes Speigelman’s perspective of his mother’s suicide in 1968. Importantly, Speigelman portray’s himself in concentration camp clothes…which seems to position Spiegelman…

I can assure you now/ of passage late tomorrow: while you sleep/ my men will row you through tranquil night/ to your own land and home or where you please.” (VII.341-344). This xenia that King Alcinous shows, helps Odysseus go back home safely. In Maus II, by Art Spiegelman, Vladek shows xenia and it helps him later on throughout his journey. Vladek says to the Kapo, “He wanted to learn here English! And he kept me aside the rest. “Listen. There are too many prisoners here. The S.S. will line…

Spiegelman seems to use drawings to tell his father’s story of the Holocaust for a variety of reasons, both due to his background as well as the literary opportunities presented by using the graphic novel as the medium of choice here. Spiegelman developed an interest in comics at an early age and started drawing professionally by the age of 16. He was also inspired by what he read in fanzines, which are non-professional publications produced by enthusiasts of a cultural phenomenon for others who…

metafiction in relation to ‘First lives club: Pretend Blood by Margaret Atwood and ‘The Birds’ by Daphne du Maurier and how historic fiction like this operates through the gap between the event and the fact with comparison to Art Spiegelman’s “The Complete Maus” which is considered to be biographical rather than metafiction. ‘The Birds’ by Daphne du Maurier (1952) draws also on Du Maurier’s own experience with a bird attack. Historiographic metafiction therefore enables the reader to never…

Art Spiegelman takes the harsh reality of the Holocaust and illustrates his story in a comic book. Rather than drawing out humans to portray the characters in his story, Spiegelman effectively portrays each nationality and religion to an animal. This, in my opinion, works very well and the animals can relate to those specific groups in story. Such as the use of Mice as Jews, which are viewed as pest, in other words less than human to the Nazis. I will be able to explain why each of the animals…

Vladek’s Personality Before and After the War The Graphic Novel Maus A survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman is about Art’s father Vladek Spiegelman’s real story as a survivor from Holocaust. Vladek Spiegelman is a complex character that faces many challenges and tragedies through life. His survival of Holocaust is a major event in his life. The Holocaust began when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933. During holocaust, about 6 millions of Jews were killed, about two-third of Jews in…

In this chapter there are several new characters introduced in both Artie’s modern time and Vladek’s war-time. Pavel is a character that has substantial importance to Arties life. Pavel is Artie’s shrink, who he sees once a week to discuss his life and relationship with his father, who is now dead. Pavel is a Czechoslovakian Jew who survived both Auschwitz and Terezin. Artie gets a little bit of knowledge about Auschwitz from Pavel; since he is experiencing some writing and drawing blocks. Artie…

Everyone goes thorough misery one way or the other and sadly some of them have to be traumatizing because of harsh experiences. It’s not easy for Vladek to forget all the early mornings he had to get up to get back to work and moving from one concentration camp to another. He didn’t care only about himself but he also cared about others in not getting hurt. On page 115(Volume I), Vladek was trying to bribe his cousin, Haskel, with valuables to save himself, Anja and her family. He could have…

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reading a memoir entitled Maus. Its author, Art Spiegelman, provides his readers with thorough glimpses into each means by which the Jewish people experienced systematic persecution within locations containing Germans as their main occupants. Deemed possessors of inferiority from a racial standpoint, the Jewish people experienced deprivation of fundamental humankind privileges. Nazis brought on infiltration of each thing where Jewish individual day-to-day…