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“No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz” (Spiegelman 44). This quote by Art Spiegelman, author of Maus II, truly encapsulates the horrific events of the Holocaust. His novel is a saddening story of prejudice, perception, and power. Told through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor, Art’s father Vladek, it gives personal insight into the terrible incident. Similar to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, different groups of people are symbolically represented by

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CastroMausTopics for Discussion: Comics TechniqueIn Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud argues that a face drawn with great detail can represent only one specific person, but that a face drawn with few details—a smiley face, for instance— could be almost anyone. Source: Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (DC Comics, 1999): 31.Describe the faces in Maus. Are they iconic (could be anyone) or particular (could only be Vladek)?The faces in described in Maus are intensely descriptive

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When beginning to understand Art Spiegelman's 1991 Maus, one must also remember that no literary work exists within or around a vacuous context, and that each piece of literature is ultimately influenced by the social and cultural contexts of both the author and the reader. This graphic novel is no exception. Each of the six sections within the book is framed with bits of the interactions between Vladek and Art during the interview that seemingly occurred to form the book. This framing acts as a

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Personal, Social, and Cultural Contexts Established by the Frame Story in MAUS     The use of the frame story, an overarching narrative used to connect a series of loosely related stories, pervades literature. An example of a frame story on a large scale - tying together a whole book-length work, not a simple short story - can be found in Art Spiegelman's graphic novel MAUS. Each of the narrative's six sections is framed with snatches of the interaction between Vladek and Art during the "interview"

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Maus I and Maus II: Intricate Frames of Identity and ExperienceMaus is self-referential a number of times throughout each volume, with a variety of purposes. The narrative moves through several interpretive frameworks—Vladek’s perspective, and Artie’s perspective, both of his father and of his father’s story and how he’s choosing to tell it. Throughout these various levels of interpretation, questions are posed in innumerable ways. Vladek’s behavior when he talks about (or even uses) his experiences

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Maus by Art Spiegelman is a comic book about Holocaust. Even though it is hard to relate comics and Holocaust, Maus is widely considered as one of the best and most influential Holocaust-inspired works. Unsurprisingly, with Holocaust as the subject for the whole book, issues of races and classes are traced heavily in the themes and structures of Maus. Racism is drawn and described in all its efficiency. Here is a quote from Adolf Hitler: “The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human

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Art Spiegelman’s Maus is based upon a true story. This novel is more than just a regular memoir. It is a riveting tale in the form of a comic book that is meant for readers that are not nonchalant to the events of the Holocaust, the genocide of the Jews during the second world war ordered by Adolf Hitler. While the novel is in the form of a comic book, it focuses on one of the most serious, tragic events in history. It focuses on the history of the Jewish people and how it has impacted adults and

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Maus vs NightTo survive a tragedy such as the Holocaust, one must leave all morals behind and release the animal within them. In novels Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, by Art Spiegelman, and Night, by Elie Wiesel, both authors use literary devices to exemplify animalistic attributes found within the story. Elie Wiesel uses animal imagery to describe the characters in the novel, Night as opposed to Spiegelman, who uses animal metaphor to represent characters in the graphic novel, Maus II: And

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Maus is a graphic novel, depicting the interaction between the author, Art Spiegelman and his father. Spiegelman interviewed his father, Vladek, regarding his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. Throughout the interview series, which was spread out to around 2 years, Spiegelman compiles Vladek's stories (pre-war Poland, marriage, polish soldier, prisoner of war, violence against Jews, Auschwitz). However, Spiegelman never confirmed how Vladek managed to escape Auschwitz until the

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Spike Lee’s satirical film, Bamboozled, serves as a critical overview of the heinous way in which African Americans have been portrayed in cinema and television since its conception. In many ways, black identity has been created on stages and reflected accordingly in the audience’s reality. I argue that the film’s title, Bamboozled, is a nod to the effect mainstream media has over its audience. Television, cinema, and advertising “bamboozle” the public into accepting the ideas that these platforms

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Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman are graphic novels that describe the horrors that his father Vladek experienced during the period of time known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a time of extreme racial and ethnic prejudice in which over six million Jews died, not counting the other groups such as Gypsies and Homosexual who were also slain by the Nazi party. The Jews were killed because they were perceived as being a subhuman layer of the Nazi Society (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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Like Maus, Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona also explores themes of othering and alienation; however, whereas Maus depicts a true story of the Holocaust, Nimona instead explores these themes through a fantasy story of heroes, villains, and monsters. In Nimona the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics acts in a way similar to the Nazi government in Maus by splitting people into a binary of virtuous heroes and evil villains, typically based on their person’s physical appearance. For example, the primary

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novel, Maus, is a compelling story of the Holocaust through his father’s tragedies and experiences, all while depicting his own relationship with his father. The story was conveyed through visual storytelling and shows the dehumanization and degrading of the Jews through its graphic images. The theme of Maus is strongly connected to How to be a Dictator in that both show the brutality bestowed upon, and the strong stereotyping of the Jewish people. One striking example of dehumanization in Maus is seen

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Maus is successful by the special way of describing a historical tragedy, the whole story is written in graphic memoir. Art Spiegelman uses animals to represent each category of character in the story, and each animal has a certain meaning. He replaces cats as Nazis, pig as Polish, dog as Americans, and mouse, just like the title of the story, Jews.We associate with Tom and Jerry which is cats chasing mouse when we think of mice. Nazi, which is cats, treat Jews like hunting mice. A mouse, which

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Contemporary literature is not bound to one specific movement and you can see that in the story “Maus” written by Art Spiegelman, through the personification of elements of movements in characters. There are several literary movements present in “Maus,” but the elements of Postmodernism and Naturalism are more distinguishable. Naturalism focuses mainly on how characters’ lives are determined by forces beyond their control, such as their environment and society. With Postmodernism, there are themes

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