Gender Roles In Persepolis

To this day, many novels, including Persepolis can include the advantages a man can have but not a woman. In the beginning of the graphic novel, men and women are shown with an equal comparison such as wearing similar clothing or going to the same school. It is until the Iranian government that creates a new law for women and men that limits their human rights all together. As the story develops, the audience can see how a change in the social structure in Iran can affect both genders, both male and female. For starters, the audience sees Marjane, the protagonist of the novel, with her friends and later on with her family. Since this is before the new law, Marji’s family and friends enjoy each other’s company and discuss nothing else except for the Iranian revolution that could benefit for all citizens. The revolution had started because the Shah declared that most of the modern practices were because of they seem to relate to capitalism, which made Marji’s school close down because it was a bilingual non-religious school. This had started the new gender roles for boys and girls that will carry on into their adult life. Marjane’s mother and
The student worker has watch the movie of Persepolis after reading the graphic novel and had noticed a similarity in the very beginning of the film. In the scene, Marjane is much older and is in an airport bathroom making sure that she looks appropriate when she is traveling back to Iran. In the bathroom, a woman next to her is giving Marjane strange looks when she is applying her lipstick. The student sees the similarity of the veil and the lipstick playing a similar role for women. Both are seen as an appropriate way for women to be dressed and are seen as someone who is modern. There could also be many ways the veil could be related to other sorts of objects that women use in certain countries to show that they too can be accepted in their own