authors to express their life and troubles they have been through. Marjane Satrapi also does this, although she mainly tries to show how children, secularists, nationalists and even Muslims were excluded, marginalized and silenced in this period of time, during the Islamic revolution in the 1980’s. Her literary work, Persepolis, works as an expression for the ones who were oppressed during the Islamic revolution. Marjane Satrapi grew up under oppression, this is already shown from the first page
The story The Shabbat by Marjane Satrapi is very interesting, because she is telling a true story about herself through a comic. “Satrapi contends that her graphic narrative of her childhood rooted in and articulated through the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War presents trauma as ordinary both in the text's form and in style.” (Chute) In Satrapi’s story it has a lot of literary elements like, conflict, setting, narrator point of view, and tone. The story starts off with the conflict. The
The elements of fiction used by Marjane Satrapi in “Persepolis”, were used to develop the themes that are evidenced during the story. To understand the several themes of “Persepolis” it is necessary to study the XXXXX, and how those elements developed throughout the story. The themes portrayed by Marjane Satrapi are XXXXX. Marjane Satrapi wrote this graphic novel as a way to criticize the government during the Iranian Revolution. That is why the themes of “Persepolis” are often political or religious
Merna Mikhail Professor Marcia Bailey Mosaics I February 28, 2015 Marjane Satrapi has the chance to travel to the Greek era when Socrates is still alive and being prosecuted. She has travelled using the time machine and becomes one of the people who visits Socrates before his death. After meeting Socrates, Satrapi seeks a definition of justice and so does Socrates. So, Socrates uses The Trials of Socrates and Satrapi uses The Complete Persepolis in order to reach a consensus that justice has only
The Death of Individualism in Persepolis In Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir, Persepolis, the reader is presented with the ideal of oppression through examples that are composed of actions made by both progressive and fundamental individuals. These examples vary from the strictness of the fundamentalists’ point of view and the individualistic beliefs that lie within the progressive perspective. Although Satrapi disagrees with the regime, this does not mean she is wholeheartedly against the Iranian
The outcome of any Leninist-Marxist revolution is seldom in the interest of the ordinary citizens, the only accomplishment is the mere changing of the oppressors. The graphic novel Persepolis by author Marjane Satrapi is a poignant story of the Iranian revolution from the perspective of a precocious little girl, the author. The novel showcases the transformation of a nation, going from a relatively progressive culture to becoming a deeply religious and intolerant society. On a lighter note, the parallels
autobiography, by Iranian born French author Marjane Satrapi. The novel is a mirror of Satrapi’s childhood during the Islamic revolution, which counters between private and public life. Marjane spent her adolescent years in Austria, a western country free from religious rule. Prior to being sent to Austria, her childhood in Iran made it difficult to express herself as any type of western culture was demonized. However this transformation caused Satrapi to struggle with her identity, she constantly
In the book, Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, Marjane talks about her actual life stories, of events that happened to her family during the Iranian Revolution. At a young age, Marjane became aware of the different social classes and their struggles. Marjane’s class awareness informs her ideologies, values, and actions as a child. Growing up, Marjane realized that she was a part of the upper class but she never actually says that she is aware of this; one can assume she is aware of social classes
tape, she breaks down into tears. Marjane Satrapi cries out at the sight before her. Marjane is a teenage girl living in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. She lives with her mother and father, and they are not the type of people to conform to the new ideologies of the imposing regime. They are 'Westernized', and enjoy Western cultural icons, such as Iron maiden and Michael Jackson. Their Western habits prove difficult to live with in wartime Iran, particularly for Marjane, who, accustomed to a freer Iran
Marjane Satarpi’s graphic novel, The Complete Persepolis, took me on a journey through Satrapi’s childhood in Iran during the late 1970’s and throughout the 1980’s. This story followed young Marjane through her young years as an outspoken, open-minded, defiant, young girl who faced extreme governmental censorship and persecution. Through this graphic novel and Marjane’s traumatic experiences, I saw the importance of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iraq-Iran War on the society, which ended