Racism‚ anti-Semitism‚ and Nationalism are the three key factors that were used to make Jews “the other” throughout history. To start with‚ Jews have always lived in areas ruled by other groups‚ and they were always there when people needed to place the blame on someone for hard times. Then in the 1800s‚ the thought that Jews were not only a part of a religion but a different race intrigued people all over Europe. Next William Marr introduced anti-Semitism‚ and that word found a home all over Europe
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Ordinary Men is a case study about the involvement of Reserve Police Battalion 101 in the extermination of Polish Jews during the Holocaust .This battalion of police reservists were first ordered to shoot men who were physically unable to work. They were also ordered to shoot women and children. Later‚ these men were assigned to round up Jews‚ confine them to restricted areas and finally herd them unto trains for transportation to their death in German-manned gas chambers. Browning drew his
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As the novel progresses further through the plot‚ the pigs on the farm begin to get more power over the other animals. This happens particularly when Napoleon‚ the new ‘President’ of the farm and a boar‚ begins to let the pigs acquire luxuries and authority the other animals cannot get. “About this time‚ too‚ it was laid down as a rule that when a pig and any other animal met on the path‚ the other animal must stand aside.” (114) In the past‚ when royalty or nobility was walking from one place to
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MAUS ESSAY – GUILT In the award winning graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegalman‚ the theme guilt is a main factor. In the novel we are aware of the guilt that Vladek feels for surviving the holocaust‚ and the guilt he feels for the death of his beloved Anja. Towards the end of the book we discover the guilt that Art feels for his mother’s death‚ and the writing of his comic‚ he also feels as though he was not a good enough son towards his father‚ especially towards his death. Vladek lives
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Animal Farm is replete with subtle and not-so-subtle lessons on blind conformity and the misuse of power. This essay will highlight firstly‚ on how the pigs are misusing power and also about the animals that are following the pigs blindly. This interplay of the two themes can be seen through the education of the masses‚ knowledge of history‚ idealism and class structure. In educating the masses of Animal Farm‚ the pigs used many instruments of abuse to fool many of the animals and to further implement
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world‚ in which millions of Jews‚ gypsies‚ disabled people‚ and homosexuals were persecuted. In the graphic novel‚ Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History‚ by Art Spiegelman‚ Spiegelman interviews his father‚ Vladek‚ about his experiences during the holocaust and reveals the afflictions of the Jewish population. Through his delineation‚ Vladek exposes the heinous methods the Nazis used against the Jews in hopes of exterminating them entirely. Some methods the Nazis used to suppress the Jewish
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To conclude Maus II and the Maus series itself‚ readers are exposed to the rather emotional and long-awaited reunion of Vladek and Anja after the end of the Holocaust. After describing this‚ Vladek states‚ “More I don’t need to tell you” (Spiegelman 136)‚ and the narrative abruptly ends on this positive note. Specifically‚ this occurs because Vladek’s struggles and experiences during the Holocaust ended in the moment he was reunited with the woman he loved. For Vladek‚ this moment marked the end
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writing stories and sharing it with an audience‚ the writer is able to share his experience in the world. In other novels‚ however‚ the novelist may create a character to stand in for the audience as the character communicates his traumatic story. In Maus by Art Spiegelman‚ the traumatic experience is being told by Spiegelman’s father and Spiegelman creates himself as a character in the book to be a stand-in for
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The Abandonment of the Jews By David S. Wyman "To kill the Jews‚ the Nazis were willing to weaken their capacity to fight the war. The United States and its allies‚ however‚ were willing to attempt almost nothing to save them" (Pp 5). If we would have put half as much energy into loving the Jews as Hitler spent hating the Jews we could have made a great difference. Wyman’s book‚ The Abandonment of the Jews was very intriguing to me. Although I found it very thorough it left me wanting to know
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same. Masks are used to conceal an appearance and assume the identity of another. Metaphorically‚ masks can be used to hide feelings‚ to protect oneself‚ and to block out the outside world. Many of these examples are shown in Art Speigelman ’s Maus. During Maus‚ the illustration of masks is made very obvious. The features are pronounced and it is very clear that the characters are wearing masks. The illustration of these masks is not to be ignored- there must be a message hidden beneath them. Speigelman
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