Maus: Core 155 Study Questions #8 - Analyzing Symbolism and Artistic Choices, Study notes of Education Planning And Management

Download Maus: Core 155 Study Questions #8 - Analyzing Symbolism and Artistic Choices and more Study notes Education Planning And Management in PDF only on Docsity! Core 155: The Monsters We Make Study Questions #8 O’Rourke Name: _______________________________________________ Date: ____________________ 1. Why does Art call his father a murderer in the last panel of volume I? 2. Spiegelman decides against using color in this volume. What might have motivated him to draw this comic in black and white? 3. One interesting contrast that emerges in the book is between Vladek’s two marriages. What might have motivated Spiegelman to spend so much time in the book setting up this contrast? What does it tell us about Vladek in particular and survivors in general? 4. Give two reasons why Spiegelman might have chosen to draw the Jews as mice and the Germans as cats. 5. In an interesting visual move, Spiegelman decides to interpolate four pages of Prisoner on the Hell Planet into Maus. Comment on the aesthetic and artistic reasons behind such a decision. 6. What do you make of the idea of telling this very harrowing story with a comic book, where people are drawn as animals? Do you find it honest? Respectful? Effective?