Topic > Maus by Art Spiegelman - 1901

Why aren't comics as popular as the dry narratives of novels in the literary world? A comic is composed of symbols to express concepts shared by all people in your social environment and provides more tools than conventional art to truly show artistic intention. Comics exist to expose ethnic representations that seek to control the development of collective perceptions and memories. and emotions and above all fear by investigating the techniques through which this control is maintained. Maus I is the faithful account of a Holocaust survivor, Vladek Spiegelman, and his experiences as a young Jew during the horrors that led to his imprisonment in Auschwitz. Maus II is about Vladek telling his story to his son Art Spiegelman and the complicated relationship. As the reader delves into the relationship between the two within the story, including those in the history books, they begin to realize what these relationships have done to shape the ideology of a group of people as a whole. People very often think that the use of comic images would soften the realizations and accounts of the events of the Holocaust, but in reality animated images greatly amplify them. In both Maus I and Maus II, comics with drawn images of memories, which are much more terrifying and realistic than actual photographs from the Holocaust era, show that comics have advantages in many ways. the use of animals in the comic humanizes the tragedy much more than the use of real humans. Maus tells the story of Auschwitz through highly detailed drawings and comical drawings of animals depicted as human beings. The main characters of Maus, Vladek and Frederick struggle every day to be considered or treated as human beings. The feature...... middle of the card......r, hidden message and to be taken seriously. It is a serious account of one's memory of the Holocaust to make the world aware of the history that will not repeat itself. In understanding Maus, the reader must take into account that all literary works are influenced by the social and cultural context of its author. Spiegelman proves that "a picture is worth a million words" with his visual representations, which speak louder than text and make a great contribution to in-depth reading and understanding. In Maus, the use of framed stories in comics helped establish the personal, social, and cultural context of ethnic representation and awareness education for younger readers. Spiegelman, Art (1986). Maus: A Survivor's Tale. New York, Pantheon. Spiegelman, Art (1991). Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And here my problems began. New York, Pantheon.