ENGB38H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Artificiality, Synecdoche, Louse
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Cover of maus: given a lot of info first impressions, dark comic version of the nazis , dark animal story, predatory, extermination vs. concentration camps, paratext- outside the text proper, holocaust: Systematic oppression and annulations of jews at the 2nd world war. Anti sematic ideologies other groups oppressed and murdered as well. Critics and scholars felt the only way to communicate the holocaust was through facts and figures. Parents pass the wounds from the war to their children. Great pressure of anxiety and guilt about being alive when the rest of their family isn"t: maus- art = living in his brothers shadow cant measure up to someone who is no longer around. Character look the same sort of uniform. All the maus look the same and all the jews look the same. Version of his parents child that didn"t survive and no long exist. Maintaining your individuality of really be seen.
