Art Spiegelman

Traumatic Experiences Change Lifestyles In the graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, his father Vladek is jew and is one of the few who survived from the Holocaust. Vladek’s experiences of being a jew and facing oppression throughout the Holocaust greatly affected him, he lost his first son and almost his entire family was killed or had gone missing. Now most of his friends, or people he associates with are also Holocaust survivors, including his second wife, Mala. Vladek also was married…

Most readers and analysists of Art Spiegelman’s Maus tend to become so focused on the grim nature of the comic’s subject matter that they overlook the possibility that there exists aspects beyond guilt and trauma that influence its narrative. Likewise, the most commonly overlooked of these aspects, and also possibly one of the most controversial, is humor. Throughout the centuries, individuals have employed humour, whether it be in the form of satire, irony, or understatement, to help them cope…

In Franz Kafka’s short story, The Metamorphosis, the reader peers into the life of the Samsa family, seeing the metamorphosis of not only the hard-working son, but also of his three other family members. Over the course of the 100 years of production of The Metamorphosis, there has been many discussions on what Kafka was trying to convey in his morbid and saddening short story. Many discussions include the idea of humanity, and if Gregor still kept his humanity after transforming into a ‘vermin’…

The Scarlet Ibis is a book written from the first-person point of view It explains the narrator's point of view of his dead brother's life, it also illustrates symbols that go along with the topics. A symbol is a mark or character used as a representation of an idea. Like when the narrator talks about how when Doodle was born he had a physical impairment which made people believe he was going to die he uses the coffin to demonstrate his struggles. Even after he didn't die he still didn't have…

Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart explores the effects of traumatic experiences to demonstrate their potential damaging behavior. Through the deuterogamist, Miu, Murakami is able to construct a surreal effect that display Miu’s own construction of reality (??). In the midst of this, Miu’s transformation from a vehement to apathetic character demonstrates the dangers of allowing supremacist ideals dictate one’s life. More importantly, that of what is lost In Miu’s character finds an outlet in…

one describe something to people who can't ever imagine it? You can describe it through three techniques; pictures, repetition, and the need of new words. Although pictures can do so much, it can say the unspeakable by showing you. For example in art spiegelman’s graphic novel MAUS portrays the jews as mice and the nazis as cats. It gives you the thoughts of the mice while showing you what's happening to them. It also gives experiences where you can relate to.…

Art Speigelman’s Maus is a graphic novel that clearly displays the appalling treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust. Throughout the novel it becomes clear that the text is not just about experiencing the Holocaust but surviving its impact. It can be easily seen that the effects of the war are long lasting and Vladek was undeniably traumatised by the ordeal. Despite physically surviving the war, in some ways Vladek did not survive. The Holocaust also impacted Art, even though he did not…

The Holocaust has done a lot of things to Vladek, in Art Spiegelman’s Maus. However, the most noticeable thing it has done, is that it has changed who he was as a man. Before the Holocaust, Vladek was once a man who was kind, wealthy, and exceptionally resourceful, and his marriage with Anja was full of genuine love. Afterwards, he is definitely not the same man. He is stubborn, easily irritable, and stingy to the point where it’s comical. This certainly puts a strain with his current wife Mala,…

graphic novel, Maus I, by Art Spigelman, the cartoonist reveals the relationship between his father, Vladek and him. Initially, the graphic novel shows the flaws between Vladek and the cartoonist attachment to another. Therefore, both Vladek and Art Spigelman’s personality crashed into each other in several incidents throughout the whole graphic novel. Additionally at the opening of Maus I, Art Spigelman demonstrates the connection between his father and him when was a young boy. Art…

answer these questions; pictures, repetition, and creating new words. If words can’t help you then pictures can, by showing you the unspeakable. One example of this is in Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel MAUS, where it shows the experiences of mice (Jews) in concentration camps which are being held by the cats (Nazis). Spiegelman draws it in a way where the reader is put in the mices’ point of views, which ends up describing the unimaginable. So, through the visuals it gives you the point of view…