Apadana (Persepolis) The magnificent Persepolis (city of Persians), dating back to 550 BCE, is located in the northeast city of Shiraz in Iran and was known as the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire. It was supposed to delineate and stress the royal power and their empire, which was the first greatest of its time. There were 4 capitals in their empire. The king, Dariush I, changed capitals based on weather conditions due to the fact that the weather would make the capitals impractical for
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
Throughout the story Persepolis, there are many incidences where Marjane Satrapi's accuracy of how the historical events unfolded are questioned, and when you think about it, her influences may have distorted her interpretation of fact. How she regarded the topics of social classes, religion, and the revolution would have been affected by her environment, her age, her religion, her wealth, and much more. All of those influences combine to create Marjane’s perspective, and her perspective affects
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 loss of Marjane's innocence and the effect of war on her Goodmorning Mr.Steve and my fellow students, today i'm going to be presenting my iop on my chosen book persepolis, i'm going to be talking about the loss of Marjane’s innocence and the effect of war on her.Some of the things that influenced the loss of Marji’s innocence were her wanting to become a rebell, the war surrounding her and some other events that happened throughout the book. The innocence of being a child was taken away from
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 of the graphic novel. On the first pages of the novel she introduces herself, she introduces herself by showing what the troubles of the Islamic revolution were by using the symbol of the veil. The very first frame of Persepolis shows a portrait illustration of Marjane while
Would you like it if your dignity was taken away from you and you could not stand up for yourself? Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis considers the many different ways women are disrespected after the revolution in Iran. Women in higher class are different from women in lower class. For example, women in high class can pay off for the wrongdoings they have done; whereas women in low class have no debt to pay for her mistakes.Marjane is a young girl who will fight for her rights and the rights of those
In the past seven months of school, we, as a class, read three different novels that focused on the many aspects of culture around the world. My novel, Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, may seem like, at first glance, a revolutionary narrative about Iran and how similar it is from everywhere else. Satrapi’s goal in her novel was to defend Iran and try to make readers understand that Iran really, is not too different. It is important to note that it is extremely debatable to say that most people
betrayal is an exceedingly serious and often unpardonable offense. Amidst flags, anthems, and striking nationalism, actions close to treason are scorned even without federal penalty. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Sophocles’ Antigone display the complex effects of such betrayal. Marji’s family in Persepolis rejects the Iranian government, the Shah and the later elected Islamic Regime. Sophocles’ Antigone defies ruler Creon’s edicts by burying her brother Polynices, a presumed traitor
1. What are organophosphates? Using at least one example of a pesticide, describe its attributed health effects, exposure risks and situations and how you will prevent the occurrence of, and manage an exposure or incident, if one occurs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) organophosphates are a group of human-made chemicals that poison insects and mammals. Organophosphates are the most widely used insecticides today. Organophosphate insecticide can produce both acute