Examples Of Allegory In The Complete Maus

In Spiegelman's, "The Complete Maus," he utilises an animalistic allegory in order to retell his father's story during the Second World War and the Holocaust. The absence of human facial features on the characters, in the graphic novel, raises the issue that the Jewish population of Eastern Europe was not treated as humans; but as "a vermin." The mistreatment of the Jewish people is a reoccurring theme in the graphic and is emphasized by the allegory of German felines hunting Jewish mice. Additionally, the animal face masks are acclimated to betoken the character's nationality and identity; and how often they were subjected to transmute in these life-threatening instances. The horrific events that occur in this graphic novel are made more tolerable