Gender Inequality In Persepolis
The text Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi explores many lenses, but the most prominent are gender and culture. Marjane reveals how gender affects the daily lives of people in Iran, she also shows how her life and many other lives were affected due to the cultural changes in Iran. Marji also explains how difficult it can be growing up in Iran for children and how it affects them.
The chapter The veil explores gender inequality caused by the Islamic revolution and how it affected women and children in Iran. Marji was first affected by the Islamic Revolution in 1980 when women were forced to start wearing a veil. Making a law that forces women to wear something they don’t want to is wrong, everyone should have a choice to wear what they want. Most …show more content…
Now I was a grown-up.” (117). This is what Marji said once she smoked her first cigarette. Honestly Marji could already identify herself as a grown-up because going through a war and seeing people die would make anyone mature faster. Marji claimed she smoked to become an adult, but really she wanted to forget about the war that was going on and all the problems in her life, so smoking was the only thing that could take the stress away and keep her relaxed. I believe that Marji left childhood at a very young age because she experienced a loss of innocence while she was still young. Children should never experience violence while they are young, but since Marji grew up during a time of war, she witnessed it at a very young age this made her mature faster than the average kid. “ For the first time in my life I saw violence with my own eyes.” (p 76).
In conclusion, Marji and many other people were greatly affected by the Islamic revolution and the new laws that were created, most of the laws were against women so the became severely oppressed because of the cultural change. Growing up during war in Iran isn’t easy for children because you mature very fast due to the circumstances you
The chapter The veil explores gender inequality caused by the Islamic revolution and how it affected women and children in Iran. Marji was first affected by the Islamic Revolution in 1980 when women were forced to start wearing a veil. Making a law that forces women to wear something they don’t want to is wrong, everyone should have a choice to wear what they want. Most …show more content…
Now I was a grown-up.” (117). This is what Marji said once she smoked her first cigarette. Honestly Marji could already identify herself as a grown-up because going through a war and seeing people die would make anyone mature faster. Marji claimed she smoked to become an adult, but really she wanted to forget about the war that was going on and all the problems in her life, so smoking was the only thing that could take the stress away and keep her relaxed. I believe that Marji left childhood at a very young age because she experienced a loss of innocence while she was still young. Children should never experience violence while they are young, but since Marji grew up during a time of war, she witnessed it at a very young age this made her mature faster than the average kid. “ For the first time in my life I saw violence with my own eyes.” (p 76).
In conclusion, Marji and many other people were greatly affected by the Islamic revolution and the new laws that were created, most of the laws were against women so the became severely oppressed because of the cultural change. Growing up during war in Iran isn’t easy for children because you mature very fast due to the circumstances you