Vladek Spiegelman

tormented association with his maturing father into a bewildering retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an extraordinary story of survival and an incapacitating take a gander at the heritage of injury. It is the tale of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his child, a visual artist grappling with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the minor. Its…

Art Spiegelman has created an authentic graphic novel, that depicts a personal and cultural collection of traumatic memory of the holocaust. Through the eyes of his father with great orientation, Spiegleman has demonstrated these horrific events with pictorial aid. The emotional, mental, and physical aspects due to brutal treatment towards the Jewish community from the holocaust reflects on how both Spiegleman and his father Vladek…

Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg, and Maus, written by Art Spiegelman, both focus on retelling the history of the Holocaust and the horrible crimes committed against its victims. With the Jewish population standing at over nine million, the goal of Nazi Germany was to completely dispose of the Jewish race and all other impurities of the world driven by their odium for them. "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things" (Pratchett 181). Beginning with the Germans, the…

Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, written by Art Spiegelman actively demonstrates this theme. A character named Vladek, a Holocaust survivor, has trauma in the novel. Vladek’s trauma, due to the events that took place during the war, affects him today by Vladek demonstrating qualities of rumination, stinginess, and learning to appreciate family more. When Vladek reveals his acts of rumination, he is demonstrating the aftermath of war trauma. Vladek burnt all the memories that he had of his…

discusses the events of a plane crash and how one man saved many lives. Maus, an autobiography written by Art Spiegelman, describes the journey of his father endured in the holocaust. Both share a common theme of perseverance because they both never gave up. In “Man in the Water”, he kept rescuing survivors by giving others the life raft instead of taking it himself. In Maus, Vladek dodges near death experiences and becomes determined to make it out alive of the concentration camp. First,…

Persistence of memory is major factor seen in both graphic novels. Persistence for references to this paper will be defined using a personal definition and attempted contextual example. Memory is seen to be persistence in that it is always present, no matter if the owner of the memory wants to not recall it or revisit it. Meaning we has memory reliant human beings, simply cannot, without the exertion of much effort or without use of psychological techniques, intentionally discard a memory or set…

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 as a kind of psychological prisoner in Germany, feeling responsible…

(R) The word murderer is defined by Google as, simply, “a killer.” This simplistic description absolutely suits Art Spiegelman. It appears that, in times of crisis when he is unsure of how to react, he lashes out with recalcitrant indignation. In fifty odd pages of literature, he manages to bestow this label on both of his emotionally scarred parents. His mother who committed suicide is a murderer for killing his relationship with his father, but, more importantly, some intangible emotive…

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…

been achieved. The son of two Holocaust survivors, Art Spiegelman, a cartoonist, used comic books to carry on the legacy of his father before, during, and after the Holocaust. He extensively interviewed his father, who survived the Holocaust, and created Maus, a series of graphic novels depicting his parents’ struggles before and after the war, which would soon become two of the most popular depictions of the Holocaust ever made.…