Guilt In Art Spiegelman's Maus

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Through Spiegelman's ground-breaking use of the comic book medium, Maus does not hold back on details as its intended audience are adults. Those who are interested in the topic and who have an appreciation for art work in storytelling. Maus genre is more than just one, it can be considered as a memoir and oral history, which labels this book as a unique classic and it is what lead to it being a critically acclaimed book. Though Maus is a graphic novel, its influence is far greater than most works of this form. The story explores the nature of guilt, and the storyline serves as a reflective method on the effects of a major historical event, in this case the traumatic events of the Holocaust, on the lives of people who lived it and it also addresses

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