Vladek Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel, Maus is a story about the survival of Spiegelman's father, Vladek, during The Holocaust and World War II. The novel both demonstrates the thrifty ways Vladek survived but also the problematic relationship between father and son. Spiegelman uses an abundance of literary devices to convey the story in an interesting and unique manner. He uses devices such as animalisation of people and bold visual imagery to emphasise the story in a distinctive and clear way. One of…

“Maus” by Art Spiegelman is a compelling and masterful story of survival told by Art’s father, Vladek Spiegelman. A Jew that lived in Poland during World War II. Vladek’s accounts are recorded and published in an odd manner. Instead of the traditional biography of a Holocaust survivor, like the Elle Wiesel’s “Night,” “Maus” was made into a comic book. Not only was “Maus” a comic book, but the characters are rendered very uniquely. The Jews are drawn as mice; the Poles were drawn as pigs,…

According to professor of English Joan Gordon, in “Surviving the Survivor,” Art Spiegelman breaks rules that dictate how Holocaust literature is to be criticized. Defined by authors Jacob Glatstein, Israel Knox, and Samuel Margoshes in their 1975 book An Anthology of Holocaust Literature, these rules are meant to confine such criticism to legislative analysis as opposed to a description (Gordon, 81). Interest in learning these rules about Holocaust writing is my first reason for researching this…

This book was written by Art Spiegelman, who was the interviewer of his father-Vladek Spiegelman. Maus commence with Vladek discussing how he met and fell in love with his first wife- Anja Spiegelman. Throughout the book, Vladek was currently married to Mala- a woman whom he argues with mostly over money, later she takes money from his account and leave him. In the end, they get back together though. Later on, Vladek marries Anja; she was rich and her father helped Vladek start his own factory.…

the author wrote about his father experiences, how he could survive and his father romances, and his own story of life. Although, they were so important in this tale, Vladek who is the author father, he was affected for some events in the Holocaust, such as his personality, romances, and his relationship with his own child. Vladek changed in his personality such as his character, Previously, Vladek’s character was so caring, a shrewd businessman with a remarkable intelligence and…

Art Spiegelman has been created to showcase what the Jews experienced throughout the Holocaust. But the novel is not simply a story of surviving the war, but a recollection of how the impacts affected the people involved and generations after them. This is shown through Vladek emotionally not surviving the Holocaust, how generations after still feel the impact and through Vladeks relationship with Mala. Vladek was able to physically survive the Holoaust but in some ways did not. After Vladek…

readers with a personal insight on his father, Vladek Spiegelman’s, experience and survival in the Holocaust. As a result of Vladek’s experience, the physical and emotional effects due to the Holocaust greatly impacted him as an individual. The effects also placed a strain on the relationships Vladek had with other individuals around him, especially with his son Art. Their relationship appears to be strained due to the effects of the Holocaust that Vladek is unable to control, as well as many…

survivor’s tale of living through the Holocaust as a Polish Jew. Through the blending of text and cartoon imagery, Spiegelman brings literal form to his father’s traumatic stories, while also having the versatility to seamlessly jump between the experiences and perspectives of the past and present. The use of icons provides an accessible yet effective narrative to readers, but Spiegelman never permits the reader to disconnect the story to the traumatic history of the real world. Ultimately,…

A common recurring theme in Maus written by Art Spiegelman is warfare. Maus is presented from the perspective of Polish Jews who were imprisoned by the Nazi in concentration camps. Throughout the book, a common occurrence is the bloodshed and violence that is generally associated with war, for example; on many occasions, Vladek Spiegelman describes to his son, Art, how life was in the concentration camps where they were forced into a life of brutal physical labor and how the infamous gas…

Art Spiegelman a cartoonist that wrote the graphic novel Maus which is about his father's experience in the holocaust. The holocaust a genocide that killed millions of Jews under the rule of the Nazi remine. Artie tells us the story of his father experience the death camp Auschwitz. As Artie tells his father’s story you can see moments that affected both Vladek and his wife Anja physically or mentally. Art Spiegelman comes to understand his mother's suicide, his relationship with his father and…