Guilt In Art Spiegelman's Maus

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Does the blame of the Holocaust fall on more than just the Nazis? Could the mass genocide of the Jews be the world’s fault? Art Spiegelman develops a message of guilt on both a personal and collective level. In his graphic novel, Maus, children cannot connect with their parents, holocaust survivors, because they have not experienced the same type of hardship. Similarly, the communal problem is that people in the world should have done more internationally to help the Jews. Spiegelman continually shows the reader guilt through syntax while describing the relation between Vladek, Art’s father, and Art. At the beginning of the novel, Spiegelman immediately uses syntax to give the readers their first impression on the relationship between Art and

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