Elija’s Reviews > Maus Now: Selected Writing > Status Update

Maus is a successful work of history because it fails to provide the reader with a catharsis, with the release of tension gained through the complacent construct of "knowing" all.
-The context in many essays mentions that the portrayal of mice, cats, pigs etc is more accurate than drawing people. Hitler himself labelled jews as vermin. So it is a better portrayal for the racial segregation as actually dif species