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Analysis of Animal Image in Art Spiegelman’s Maus



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XUE Si-qi

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.07.006

Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

The visual metaphors of cats for Germans, mice for Jews, pigs for Poles, dogs for Americans make the story compelling without any extraneous description. In this paper, I explore the animal images in Maus, the mice, the cats and the pigs. By stating the chosen of mice image, symbolic meaning of mice and the function of “masks” that mice put on to pretend to be others, we explore the universally acknowledged metaphor mice in Maus and interpret the miserable history of Nazi Holocaust.

animal image, metaphor, Maus

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