Maus I and II Research Paper

Family conflict (between Art and Vladek, between Vladek and Mala, between Art and his dead brother Richlieu)
Racism (German racism, Vladek’s racism, Art’s possible racism in portraying races and nationalities as animals)
Guilt (Art’s €“ about surviving when his brother did not; about not being worthy as the child of parents who went through so much; about putting Vladek’s personal stories in print when Vladek had asked him not to; about not treating his father as well as he should; about how he treated his mother when she turned to him for love just before committing suicide)
Survival (Vladek’s, Anja’s, Mala’s, Art’s)
Dominance, racial and personal (Vladek is as dominant to Mala and Art as the Germans were to him; dominance of favored prisoners over those less fortunate)
Depression, Suicide (Art’s, Vladek’s, Anja’s)
Prisons and Prisoners (including POW camp and/or the concentration camps in which characters feel like prisoners)

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? Thesis & Development
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