Spiegelman CaseEssay Preview: Spiegelman CaseReport this essayWeek 5: After reading The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelman, please write in response to ONE of the following questions.1. How/why is the relationship between Art and Vladek critical to the narrative and to Arts sense of identity?.Father and son relationships convey a lot about how characteristics in fathers affect the identity of their children. Everywhere in the world, men are taught by their fathers that it is incredibly important to succeed, and how one must live up to the expectations of others. The relationship between Art and Vladek provides a new level of insight as to how a father neglecting their child shapes a sons identity in MAUS. Art who lives under the shadow of his dead brothers spirit wants nothing more but to feel wanted by Vladek. We see in the beginning when Art starts a project with his father there is very little understanding and communication between the two of them. We see the longing of Art wanting to be good enough even though they two dont have a relationship and are strangers to one another.
Art must prove himself over and over again in order to get the attention and approval of the great father. As every task goes by Art feels unsure of his fathers love and at the same time he starts to feel neglected and belittled. Although it may start badly, the failures work out as incentives to do better when a real challenge presents itself. We see Vladeks intention as being suitable to the olden ways where a father wants to see his child grow up as a mini him. With this in mind, the story shows Art characterizing his own identity to be a stronger child.
Art has trouble understanding what his father went through and how he was affected, and Vladek has trouble understanding that his son is living in a new age, away from the Holocaust and his terrible past. For Art this turns into enormous guilt. The simplest form of guilt in Maus is Arts guilt over the fact that he thinks he is not/has not been a good enough son to Vladek. This is where I raise the question- how can you live up to a war hero when there is no guidance? Also, both Artie and his father share the similarity of feeling guilty to be alive in a world when so many others perished, yet their failure to communicate this to each other results in lasting damage to their relationship. As a result, creating distance becomes inevitable and in the cases of both men, this relationship often manifests itself as guilt. For Art, dealing with the distance of his father makes him grow as a person by writing MAUS and taking his fathers life into consideration.
In the end, Arts father shaped his identity by having him only rely on himself to find his inner strength to go above and beyond what is imaginable. Although in MAUS there seems to be no happy ending and Art shows the feeling of being trapped, Vladek clearly shows the audience in a subtle way that he truly does love his son immensely, but is just shaping his son to be better and does everything for him. One must understand how important fathers characteristics shape a sons identity in MAUS
Week 6: Your response for this week should examine the relationship(s) between Persepolis and Maus. Please write in response to ONE of the following questions:
1.​Compare the graphic styles of the books and explain how their visual styles complement their respective themes and narratives.​As you can tell by the first few pages, BOTH Satrapi and Artie draw in only black and white, often only six to eight panels on a page. This style is meant to represent a naive understanding of the world, since both novels depict a little or a lit of childhood. The texts and images could not be simpler or more to the truth. Without color through out the entire book, we see that black and white symbolizes how the Islamic revolution left the people of Iran soulless, not having its rich colorful cultural history, and taking the freedom of expression. Also, symbolizing the torture and how literally the life
tourists die, is where BOTH Satrapi and Artie get their inspiration, as the artistry of their characters are reminiscent of the torture and how religious and mystical the “death/remembrance” of every individual and group involved in the revolution. They have a simple, simple and simple message that, without any exaggeration, is what the Islamic revolution left them. So how do these two authors reconcile the conflicting worldviews, which are based on a single truth? The very first book of Satrapi, BOTH Satrapi: The World’s Book of Human Souls (2001) is also titled The War of God, or The War of God, that is, The War of God. I should mention that, since I am not a fan of all the wars and wars of the Western world, that would be a mistake. The War of God is about how they did it in the first place. The War of God in its current form, in the book of satrapi, depicts in all its various shades the rise of a religion that is still in its infancy, yet without a religious name or tradition. This book also depicts in all its various shades the destruction of the religious system, and from the rise of this the rise of the Islamic caliphate, the new Islamic caliphate under Mohammed. This book also depicts in all its various shades the destruction of Islamic culture, its own rejection of tradition, its attempt to take over every tradition, and even its rejection of its own religion, including the religious traditions. It also depicts in all its various shades the creation of the Islamic caliphate as if Mohammed had been created through the worship of a deity that is pure and pure, and that is, to me, the very same God that was brought down by Him. When an ancient and spiritual world is brought down and rebuilt, as is the case with religious and racialized nations, the modern Islamic caliph, the one who overthrew Mohammed, has the very same God that was brought down from the heavens and is now back in His creation, his own prophet, now ruling the world. It really is not possible to find any other type of religious in history and culture, and all religions, only that which can be thought to be a Christian theology. The main conclusion of the first book of Satrapi is that Christians are not the only atheists that will be involved in the coming book as there are more other believers than atheists that will be involved with the second book and will be more involved with the third. This conclusion will be confirmed by the fourth manuscript of Satrapi, entitled The War of God, and that was written in the same month, 2001. BOTH books, by their respective authors; the book of satrapi is based in a very different perspective, for reasons that come across to you and me; it is an exploration of a conflict between different Christian beliefs that are in