Persepolis And Destiny Analysis

Persepolis and Destiny disrupted offer two perspectives on the complicated history of Islam. One focused on the personal journey of a woman living in one of the least liberating cultures and the other the complicated history of that culture and religion that lead to that point. Both authors have the eventual goal of educating people in western countries about the Islamic world but they take very different approaches to it and they are both influenced by their personal experiences and identities. The most obvious difference in their perspectives comes from gender. In every country in the world people have incredibly different experiences because of their gender. People are allowed to express different emotions. They are allowed to do different
So flash forward to Marjane as she is growing up in the transition period from what was a fairly equal modern society to the religious extreme that exists today. The first thing they change is the education of women. They are separated from the boys which separates the sexes even more and then they are taught that they must abide by strict muslim values that restrict the abilities of women to express themselves. However Marjane goes to Europe for her education in an attempt to remain free. Early in Destiny Disrupted it highlights stories about women who were great warriors or poets or just prominent cultural figures yet as Islamic culture progresses there are less stories about women and that’s probably because women grew more disparaged in society and more historical erasure has happened because of the modern perspective on women. Many stories about great women probably don't survive in a society that insists women are inferior. So Ansary not having a particular agenda to elevate women doesn’t spend too much time trying to track down stories of great muslim women and when he does he spends less time talking about