Essays on Maus

Vladek's relationship with his son Artie is central in the book Maus and is founded on the feeling of intense guilt. Initially, Artie exhibits a good relationship with his father and visits him more frequently after learning of his experience during the Holocaust. Later, their relationship is torn when Vladek's character changes and both do not visit or see each other even though they live strictly within the same area. Both Vladek and his son feel affected by the Holocaust experience which greatly influences part of their personalities. Artie experiences an inner conflict towards his relationship with his father. ...

Art Spiegelman’s Maus

What characteristics does the reader see in Vladek that may explain how he and Anja survived the Holocaust? Vladek appears to us, and as a victim of the Holocaust, and as an old man, whose moving story, picked and washed him up in the suburbs of New York. Young Vladek, surviving by all available means, becomes a brilliant schemer and saves his life because of his intelligence and shred of luck - and we admire him, no matter what. But in his old age, he turns into a cartoon character with a disgusting miser who thinks that all blacks ...

The holocaust is one of the most critical eventualities that took place in the 20th century. Indeed, it is one of those happenings that changed the world forever and become a defining moment for how the Jews and the world would handle a conflict. As such, it has become one of the most analyzed political instigation of all time. Based on this historical importance, this paper seeks to understand the nature of the Holocaust. It pays particular interest on the events and motivations that led to this deadly instigation. Importantly, the paper also explores these motivations in relation to ...

Vladek's Mental Illness in Art Spiegelman's Maus

In recent years, a lot of comics are very mediocre, quite often they have similar super-heroes and antagonists. Not many comics evoke some powerful emotions, not many of them have a strong sense of compassion for the characters. They shock the readers very rarely. One of the graphic novels, which cause such a feeling, is "Maus." This is a comic of Art Spiegelman. He used the stories of this father. This is the book about the life of one family, about the survival of the mind and body in conditions where the word "destruction" is not an abstraction, but ...

The Cold War can be defined as the period of time in which the Soviet bloc nations and the United States entered into a hostile political rivalry. This paper will mainly focus on the cause and effects of the Cold War. There were several causes of the Cold War, for example, the presence of the ideological differences that existed between the communist, the Soviet Union and the capitalist, the United States. The Soviet Union had a mission of spreading its communism ideology to other countries after the WWII, which created total curiosity that alarmed the American people who greatly ...

The definition of the Western Canon is always changing, according to literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom: but is that mutability a good thing? Bloom, a rather conservative literary critic, believes that there should be literary standards that outlive the fashionable theories of the day. In our times, these literary theories include ideas borrow from Marx, Foucault, New Historicism, and ethnocentric and gender perspectives, among other lenses through which to view the production of literature. Amidst these ever-changing standards and definitions of a “classic,” Bloom believes the study of literature and good reading habits—to read well and ...

American cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s Maus is considered a comic masterpiece and the two-volume telling the horrors of the Holocaust is a winner of Pulitzer Prize. Art’s father, Vladek was a Polish Jew, who survived the Holocaust. The essay looks at MAUS graphic novel, its artwork and how the author uses those images to tell a compelling story. Maus is considered to be as an intellectually substantive graphic novel. Spiegelman has depicted Germans as cats and Jews as mice and Germans and Poles as pigs cats in the graphic novel. The purpose is to show Germans as the ...

Comics are a simple and engaging style of storytelling with the help of images, visual art and words. The images are arranged in a panel and into a sequential narrative. Words might or might not be used and usually, appear in a box or balloons near the images. The essay discusses MAUS graphic novel, its content and visual strategies used by the illustrator to convey the information. It evaluates as to how some specific concepts of comics are employed by the author of MAUS. When one mentions a graphic novel, it conjures images of illustrated books and comics. There ...

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The essay makes a comparison of “Maus” by Art Spiegelman and “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi. It would be challenging to express intense historic events and experiences through a graphic novel, but the readings are certainly beneficial to the readers. The visual formats of the graphic novel make a stronger connection between the reader and the characters, than just simply reading the word of text. The pictorial descriptions are helpful when introducing different characters, and one can recognizes their faces an on a page (Sanders 2015). As one goes through the two graphic books, one comes across many similarities and ...

Bonnaroo Music Festival was founded in 2002. The extravaganza takes place each year for four days. The concert was produced by AC Entertainment and Superfly Presents. The show takes place at the Great Stage Park starting on the second Thursday every June. The main events that motivate people to attend the music concert are the multiple stages that involve live music of different genre such as hip-hop, country music, folk, indie rock, world music, jazz, gospel, pop, classic rock, and pop. Last year (2015) June, I attended the Bonnaroo Music Concert to enjoy and gain more insight of what ...