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Vladek Spiegelman is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. It´s this experience that he tells his son, Art Spiegelman, who then published a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon, called Maus, where he tells his father´s story.
Explanation:
To be able to address the horrible experience, Art portraits the Nazis as cats and the Jews as mice, in an attempt to make it more friendly to the reader.
Answer:
This is Shakespeare's Sonnet 45.
In this sonnet, he finds himself in continous fluctuation between joy and sorrow. This is as a result of the absence of the one he loved. His thoughts were always moving to and fro between him and his love.
Actually, this sonnet relates to his previous sonnet. He finds that his thoughts and desires are not so much in himself, as with his beloved (hence present-absent.)
Substances were said to be made up of fire, air, earth and water. But when a substance is deprived of two of them, air and fire, (the other two) which correspond to thought and desire, the body responds and sinks into melancholy and decay.
