Essays on Maus

The graphic novel, the complete Maus by Art Spiegelman, is a novel based on Art Spiegelman’s father, Vladek and his experiences with the Holocaust. The themes shown in this novel studied include prejudice, family, privilege and survival. Not only are these themes presented in Maus but they are also shown in the article Jews are...

Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning duology ‘Maus’ tells the story of a Holocaust survivor, in particular the memoir of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. As a graphic novel, ‘Maus’ is able to shock the reader and ‘draw[s] us closer to the bleak...

A character from the comic books who has been very meaningful to me is Vladek from “Maus: A Survivors Tale by Art Spielgelman”. Vladek was a character where he described himself as basically being a young ambitious boy one point in his lifetime. He mentioned to his son Artie “I was at, that time, young,...