Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Extermination Camp, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G
• Professor: Tim Blackmore

Document Summary

Maus 2: lying about the interview: sons and fathers, the curse of survival, telling, or being silent, telling the truth , prisoners of the past, becoming other. Sons and fathers: struggle between son and father, understood to be crucial struggle by critics son of the survivor and the survivor, readers deal with this relationship. Can"t make sense of relationship with dad, how am i supposed to deal with auschwitz . Because he has admitted it does the telling of the bad thing make the bad thing ok. The curse of survival: psychology: what happened to people that survive unspeakable events, ex. Maybe it"s strength because they can realize that world will be better without them: vladek and anja are strong for different reasons in different ways, telling story is part where theyre most alive. Telling the truth : shows many times vladek stopping artie from telling the story.