Ninguno

Andrea Prieto
December 7, 2012
9E
What Changed Vladek’s Personality?

“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, willbe held up as an example.” – Anne frank. In the book “Maus”, written by Art Spiegelman, Vladek Spiegelman shares his story about the holocaust with all of the readers. Vladek is Art’s father, he talksabout all the traumatizing events he saw and went through during his experience. These occurrences managed to stay in his memories forever, and gave result to his irritating personality. The eventsVladek went through made him change his view of life. It changed his personality traits because it was a huge impact on his life, he still carried “baggage” from what he lived, and he learned to do whathe had to, even if he didn’t want to.
It is obvious that an impact like the Holocaust will turn your life around immensely. Vladek, however, managed to keep on going and live with all of thosetrapped emotions. In “Maus”, Artie says something that describes exactly how Valdek is, or at least how he interprets his father, “Just like the racist caricature of the miserly old Jew”. In my opinion,this is actually true. Vladek is miserable because he survived the Holocaust and doesn’t know what to do with his madness, sorrow, disappointments, sadness; all those mixed emotions have changed hislife even more. No one has ever sat down and asked him to talk about those times, until now that Art wants to know more about the topic. I think Vladek changed because of the Holocaust, and will neverbe able to live his life the way he used to. Therefore, he will remain miserable forever.
The Holocaust had to change Vladek in one way or another, it is impossible for someone to go through somuch and think the same way he used to. But Vladek, still carried all of this resentment, hatred, and madness. There is a panel in “Maus”, that suggests that Vladek has gone through so much that it...