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 around her; same as her mother Taji and dad Eby. The Iranian government and the
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 Complete Persepolis is a coming of age 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
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
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
hyper-masculine men fighting the cruel world of humans. However, Marjane Satrapi shatters these boundaries with one prominent work, not a fantasy of women superheroes saving the world, but a quiet memoir that makes the loudest sound of all. Persepolis, a series of two beautifully drawn graphic novels is perhaps the most eminent book to combine a multiplicity of issues into one passionate length of art. Originally published between 2000 and 2003, Persepolis follows Satrapi as she carefully traces important features
Persepolis is a graphic novel, written by Marjane Satrapi, giving sneak peeks into the lives of a young girl in the middle of the Islamic Revolution. Situated during the overthrown of the Shah’s regime, and the war with Iraq, Marjane lets the reader experience how the people of Iran, the nationalists, the secularists and even the Muslims, depreciate, excluded and silenced the modernists in Iran during the great Revolution. Written through the eyes of a young ten year old girl, Satrapi helped the
Marjane Satrapi has beautifully crafted a memoir of a young girl attempting to grow up during a national conflict alongside an unexpected style of artwork. Choosing to include illustrations in a piece of literature can be detrimental to the storyline but because the subject matter is relatively heavy, the artwork is a simplistic distraction to reiterate the focal points of the text. Having a visual aspect heightens the emotional details within the story. For instance when she talks about how she
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 way of life.
Persepolis is a unique story partly because it is told in the form of a graphic novel. There are many elements of it that are very similar to a regular novel, so it remains to be asked why Marjane Satrapi chose this particular medium to tell her story. When we think of graphic novels, we think of comic books and something that is perhaps a bit more frivolous than the average novel. Even though there have been many critically acclaimed graphic novels that tell intricate well-crafted stories, writing