The title of the memoir Maus:
A Survivors Tale has two different parts in the meaning. The first is the word maus that is a German word-meaning mouse.
In the memoir the author portrays himself and his father, along with any other
Jewish people as mice that distinguishes them from the rest of the people
around. The persona of a cat has been given to any one whom is a Nazi really creating
an obvious tension and different between the two classes. I believe Spiegelman did this not only to
create a visual difference being a graphic memoir but the significance of the
two specific creatures of a cat and a mouse is one has always been seen as hunting
the other and the roles is never reversed. As the memoir is about Spiegelman’s father telling his
story about making it through the holocaust and World War II the second part “A
Survivors Tale” is simply stated to reiterate the memoir is that of a
survivors. I felt the title and interpretation to be very clever making the
word mouse, which represented the Jews into the German version of the word
because every one had to conform to the ways of the Germans or Nazis.
Figure 1
Shmoop
Editorial Team. "Maus: A Survivor's Tale What's Up With the Title?" Shmoop.com.
Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.
<http://www.shmoop.com/maus/title.html>.
Figure 1: I was a Teenage Lit Major. (2013). Book Talk #4: Maus: A Survivor's Tale. [virtual image]. Retrieved Apr 1, 2015 from https://carnagerules.wordpress.com/tag/world-war-2/
Figure 1: I was a Teenage Lit Major. (2013). Book Talk #4: Maus: A Survivor's Tale. [virtual image]. Retrieved Apr 1, 2015 from https://carnagerules.wordpress.com/tag/world-war-2/
Eden, I love how you used an image and how you kept it simple and to the point.
ReplyDeleteEden, I have to agree with your thought on the title being very clever. I never knew the whole meaning behind the title but now that I read your post it makes the title of the memoir much more significant to the content.
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