Art Spiegelmans Maus - Prisoner on the Hell Planet - A...

Art Spieglemans comic book within the comic book Maus is titled Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History. This text within a text describes, in horrific detail through pictures, Arties failed effort to get through the painful loss of his mother due to suicide. This text also in a way, represents a part of Arties mind where he expresses his feelings of loneliness, doubt, fear, anger, and blame through the form of a dark, gloomy, depressing cartoon. In the first frame on page 100 nest to the title Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History, including this picture of Artie and his mother at Trojan Lake in 1958 (ten years before his mother killed herself). Adding this picture of Artie and his mother brings a†¦show more content†¦In the past Artie may have felt that his mother was always trying to compare him to her first son Richieu, which may be the reason for Artie having to stay in a mental hospital for three months. In the present time, in spite of his mothers actions towards him, Artie tries to be away from home as often as possible. So, he stays over at his girlfriends place a few days at a time. The fourth frame of this short story depicts Artie running down the sidewalk, and his narration above reading: Id just spent the weekend with my girlfriend, Isabella. (My parents didnt like her.) I was late getting home. As I mentioned before, Artie probably stays at his girlfriends house often because he does not want to be near his parents which explains why he was late. There is little if any connection between Artie and his parents, especially with his mother. He knows that he will never be his older brother Richieu and this disappoints his parents. The fifth frame of this strip is one of the most important frames. In this frame, Artie expresses to the reader for the first time the guilt he has developed resulting from his mothers suicide. He states I suppose that if Id gotten home when expected, I would have found her body. Accentuating I by bolding it and making it stand out, demonstrates to the reader that he puts the blame on himself for his mothers suicide and feels guilty. The subsequent two frames reveal thatShow MoreRelated A Different Kind of Holocaust Essay2236 Words   |  9 PagesArt Spiegelmans Maus is a renowned comic book that won a Pulitzer Prize. The book was published in two parts, Volume I: My Father Bleeds History, in 1986, and Volume II: And Here My Troubles Began, in 1991. It was later integrated into one single volume. The book told Spiegelmans desire to write about his fathers experiences during the Holocaust, as well as the experiences themselves. There had been numbers of Holocaust books over the deca des, but Maus is different among all. After readingRead MoreMaus by Art Spiegelman Essay1913 Words   |  8 Pagesconventional art to truly show artistic intention. Comics exist to expose the ethnic representations that seek to control the development of collective perceptions, memories and emotions and especially fear by investigating the techniques through which this control is maintained. Maus I is a true account of a Holocaust survivor, Vladek Spiegelman, and his experiences as a young Jew during the horrors leading up to the confinement in Auschwitz. Maus II is about Vladek recounting his own history to hisRead MoreAnalysis Of `` Maus `` By Art Spiegelman1945 Words   |  8 Pagesfeeling to capture. The graphic novel Maus, written and drawn by Art Spiegelman, illustrates himself trying to relate with his father, Vladek, by having him recount his story as a Holocaust survivor. The novel deals with Artie’s struggle to understand the Holocaust and his father’s situation as best as he can without having lived through it; he wishes he could have known what his father went through and could comprehend his situation. The postmodern story of Maus uses the drawings of his characters