A Rhetorical Analysis Of Maus By Art Spiegelman

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“Maus” by Art Spiegelman is primarily a story of increasing struggle as Art’s father Vladek recounts his struggle to avoid the danger and despair of the Holocaust in World War II Europe. To fully encapsulate the many dimensions of this topic, Spiegelman employs many visual rhetorical tools; each with their own purpose and style. Sometimes, these rhetorical tools become such consistent staples of Spiegelman’s panels that they become integral to the story itself. One such tool is the shading. From Maus’ first chapter, Spiegelman begins to consistently, yet subtly, darken the overall makeup of his panels by using different shading techniques. The increasingly gloomy shading and crosshatching of backgrounds and empty space in both volumes of Maus
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