A trascendental Holocaust

Maus by Spiegelman illustrates the story of his father, a Holocaust survivor using mice to represent the Jews and Cats to represent the Nazis. 

In Maus  the holocaust is the central theme describing the story of someone who lived the consequences of the Holocaus. The relationship between the story and the historical event is direct. 

The story of V for Vendetta can be summarized as a man who quests for revenge in a world changed by war. The story takes place in England, 1997.  V comes as a hero to save the country, no matter what the consequences are, as when he sais: 

"Remember remember the fifth of November 

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

 I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot..."

(Moore, 1988)

V is a version of previous heroes, since the words of the poem refer to Guy Fawkes (17th Century English history). On  November 5th 1605 Fawkes was caught in the cellars of the Parliament with barrels of gunpowder and sentenced to death and executed in one of the most horrendous ways (hung, drawn and quartered) for plotting against the government.
V of Vendetta by Alan Moore, is also written and inspired in a post -war world where the government of England becomes a fascist dictatorship, it is a sort of parallel reality of the Holocaust. It is not a direct relation but it is inevitable to think of it while reading the novel. 

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and Maus by Art Spiegelman can be related because both are graphic novels and both tell a story of a dictatorship. But, there are three novels that have a line that unites them.

Orwell's 1984 takes place in a futuristic society where people are controled through propaganda and are submissive to the wishes of the government. 1984 by Orwell is inspired by that very fact and the creation of the USSR to create the story. as he stated in his letter to Noel Willmett, where can be found the explanation ond /or idea for writting 1984:

"Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible." (Orwell, 1944)

Although he was not a big fan of Hitlet, he had strong and deep thoughts that lead him to write this book, as we can see in his review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler:

(Brownell, 1968)

The works define a different kind of holocaust, that according to the context, varies in its manifestation. The three novels are contextualized in dictatorships, but one tells a past story (Maus), another makes a possible parralel story in present time of the historical event (V for Vendetta) and Orwell makes a futuritic vision of what the world could be if the governments in general hold too much power and allows people only certain information.

As in Maus, the historical event has passed, Spiegelman showns that there is nothing else to do but Orwell and Moore present a possible sollution :

Orwell, George. "A Life in Letters." Letter to Noel Willmett. 18 May 1944. MS.Lloyd, David. 1. V for Vendetta. By Alan Moore. Vol. 1. New York: DC Comics, 1988. 9. Print.

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 2, edited by Sonia Onvell and Ian Angus, copyright 0 1968 by Sonia Brownell Onvell. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.