Spiegelman use of animals in his graphic novel may seem superficial, but it helps his works to show the stupidity of classifying people on race, gender, nationality, or faith. his 'comic' representation of different people as animals shows how ridiculous the idea is. The Jews for example [represented as mice] can be seen as the helpless 'victims' of the Nazi' regime. The Nazi's threatening appearance [of cats] add to this satire. the jews, in order to hide themselves from the Nazis, wear the mask of a normal polish person... pg66.. Spiegelman even goes as far to Americans represented as dogs, adding to the satire of the idea, which breaks down towards MAUS II; when the reporters are depicted wearing masks of race [nazi, jewish etc]...pg202...
...i actually found a web resource that talks about the unrest of some polish people as being rendered as pigs; turns out that the representation should be seen as a comical 'miss piggy' style.
...i actually found a web resource that talks about the unrest of some polish people as being rendered as pigs; turns out that the representation should be seen as a comical 'miss piggy' style.
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I love how you looked up about the pigs!! I also really liked how by making the characters animals it makes people realize how dumb it is to classify people by things. It's a really good point and I never thought about it that way before!
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