Satrapi's Persepolis

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Persepolis issues are she is concerned with how the chaos of war (cultural or otherwise) and how it affects the society, and mainly the children of that society. The book represents the Iran’s fall into the hold of radical Islam, showing the gradual limitation of rights and increased event of bloody violence, as well as how those new horrors change and shape the people and culture. The novel itself is graphic, this is for a board audience and it also limits the audience. The format is unconventional, which provokes interest, and easy to understand. I think the book was written for an audience that had prior knowledge of the Islamic Revolution or the history of Iran. However, let talk about Satrapi, I think she chose to tell her story to expose a part of history about which many of us are ignorant. She tells her story to convey to her readers the value of a strong and tough person that can recover quickly and promoting political revolution. She challenges the reader not to back down in the face of adversity, to have inquire for everything, and to do what they believe is right. …show more content…
Many changes were implemented under the new rule that transformed her and society. Margane was all most exile. In her own country many constant threats of death. Her biggest hero was her uncle, a martyr. These reason would make sense for why she would be rebellious child. Margane expressing rebellion was dangerous she got expelled and into trouble on the street. Her parent told her if she kept doing it she would get in to serious trouble. So as a result they sent her to Austria to live with relative and further education. At this point she was literal exile from her

Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

Seminar Paper 1 One of the major theme in Marjane Satrapi’s book “Persepolis” is to show the faith and religion of different people who appeared in her life, such as her parents, relative people, friends in school and other people her saw during the demonstration. The chaotic society forced the crowd became two sorts of people, which is traditional and progressive style. Most of people still believed in god when the time the political power made them lose their faith. Marjane heard the story…

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Who Is Satrapi's Identity In Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis displays a view into the Middle Eastern culture through the eyes of an ever maturing Iranian woman. Henry McIntosh argues that the primary purpose of this graphic-novel is to dispel the fallacies of western observers and display Iran’s multi-faceted culture for the reader(McIntosh, 2013). A more important theme arises when the reader analyzes the transformation and discovery of the main character. The primary theme of Persepolis is that one’s identity can not be…

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Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: An Analysis

Marjane Satrapi’s book, Persepolis, is written from the point of view of a ten year old girl growing up during the Iranian revolution and the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini. Both were a tough thing to go through. The Iranian revolution was violent and chaotic. Ayatollah Khomeini was a very strict ruler with ideas Marjane and her family did not agree with. Because Marjane was so young her perception of revolution, nationalism, social classes, imperialism, and religion is slightly different than what…

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Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the culture and theme creates a great impact for the reader due to the fact that the main character (Marjane Satrapi) narrates the novel. For the reader, having the main character narrate the story provides a perspective of how life goes about on a daily basis. This really helps the reader understand how the culture goes and why the events or dramatic changes happen. For example, in the novel after the Islamic Revolution occurs a sudden change of…

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Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

Persepolis Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi depicting her early childhood in Iran during the Islamic revolution. In the beginning Marji relied a lot on god and her faith to understand what was happening in the world around her. However, after her uncle is killed by the government she distances herself from god. Detachment from god can result in an internal conflict and revaluation of faith. In the panel there is a narration box that expresses Marji’s inner monologue, it says…

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Response To Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

For my recreational reading project, I chose to read the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. My favorite thing about the book is that there are illustrations in it and how it is like comic book. The illustrations are very detailed and help me understand how things looked during that time. Before reading this book I had heard about Saddam Hussein and the Islamic revolution but I never actually knew who and what they were. I had no idea things were that bad in Iran during that time. The book educated…

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Life Traumas In Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

In Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir, Persepolis, a young girl named Marji experiences many life traumas such as family death, discrimination, and the harsh reality of growing up during a revolutionary time. In the book, we are introduced to Marji and eventually sees how she grew up. In the country of Iran during a revolutionary time, there was a lot of violent and Iran was being under controlled by a religious dictator. There was no freedom and Marji was affected by the revolution that in a sense…

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Western Influences In Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

The novel Persepolis uses western society and culture to heavily influence many of the main characters throughout the book,this western influence can be seen with the of uses various illustrations throughout book that hint at western society and culture. In Marjane Satrapi novel Persepolis, she portrays the west in two different ways, first she shows western society as having more freedoms and more rights, but later in the novel she portrays the west as the prime example of how not to live your life…

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Marjane Satrapi's Childhood In Persepolis

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes”, shared Oscar Wilde. Therefore, Marjane Satrapi makes it evident, in her graphic novel Persepolis that the mistakes made in her childhood contributed to her growth and knowledge of the world around her. At the age of ten she decides to go to a demonstration against the Shah with her nanny Mehri, as she, “finally understood the reasons for the revolution” (38). However, the day she had gone to the demonstration was known as “Black Friday” because…

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Persepolis Gender Roles

Women Arise Against Roles In Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, Marji lives during the time of the Islamic Revolution and has to go through many changes to fulfill what the government wants. Marji and her family are not the only people that face problems with the changes because of the revolution. The revolution impacts mostly women and all the changes that each must face because of the Regime’s new laws, which includes the veils. Young children do not understand the reasons for these new…

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