Maus Pt. II

The panels that i find interesting in the second part of Maus are panels 3 - 5 on page 242. The whole reference to a dog gone mad is an interesting metaphor.

In my opinion believe this could be a metaphor of how the Jews struggled to survive by every last role or twitch of life. In another sense, this could be another metaphor as to how the Jews have been dehumanized - since they were treated like dogs, they were killed like dogs. In fact, maybe this...the Jews cry for hunger or cry of hate for the German soldiers sounded like barks to the Germans - an annoying sound that doesn't shut up. In another way, Jews are like dogs in that of a begging sense. I know i have spoiled my dog with human food so now she's always hounding for something else. So i guess, Germans see the Jews as beggars of the riches.

Vladek was talking about a "mad" dog that was biting. The only way to terminate a made soul is to kill it. So like a crazed dog dying - the devilish souls leaving their souls is the rolling and twitching....just like the Jews. The Germans thought, in a way, Jews were the devil