Understanding the Holocaust through Art Spiegelman's Maus

The experience in the Holocaust is difficult to imagine. Physical pain and fear that Holocaust survivors feel can not be fully understood by anyone but survivors. Children of survivors may not feel physical pain or suffer like their parents, but they feel psychological effects. Because of this, Artie and his father could not contact. The Holocaust built a difficult wall to climb between them. Artie tried to overcome the gap between him and his father and wrote a manga, Maus about his father's life, hoping to get closer to him and better understand him, he wrote Maus I tried to find father 's noisy habit and hypocrisy.

Mouse is a graphic novel written and drawn by cartoonist Art Spiegelman. This two part novel was serialized between 1980 and 1991, depicting the journey of father and massacre survivor Vladek Spiegelman. Through a series of personal interviews with his son Art, Vladek is a series of time series anecdotes, but I remember his journey of survival. Through the novel, while interviewing fathers, art is always alternating between past and present stories. His illustration depicts humans as animals. Jews are mice, Nazis are cats, and Paul is a pig. Maus I: Survivor's Story and Maus II: Here my troubles began and the interview took place in several places, including Vladek's house in Lego Park, the cabin in Catskills, and the room in LaGuardia.

Art Spiegelman used comic groups in his graphic novels, Maus and Maus II, to remember his father's experience during the Holocaust period. His parents and brothers experienced genocide throughout their life and his family was severely affected by the time they spent in concentration camps. Spiegelman decided to consciously and carefully use the comic team to draw the mouse version of his father Vladek Spiegelman. His work features his father's work and looks back on his past experience. Holocaust is also common in other art forms, such as paintings, paintings, photography. Unlike other works, Speigelman's works use mice rather than humans, and in comic format they use words and their own black-and-white photos. His technique is easier to express than a single picture or picture, and you can expand stories through multiple panels.

Art Spiegelman's Maus is written and illustrated in seemingly harmless and simple form, but captures the complexity of mankind through the story of a single character. Spiegelman 's images, dialogue, photos, narrative style not only provide empirical expressions through examples but also refuse the simplification and generalization of the Holocaust' s experience.