Religion In Persepolis

Among the ear of war and revolution, faith and religion, which is an essential key to national survival, may help the nation stay peace for a long time or enable people to stand up in the face of tyranny. It could accelerate the process of revolution but also increase the casualties of people. In her comic “Persepolis I and II”, Marjane Satrapi uses her personal experience illustrates that most of the Iranian people who lived in that time period seems have not a stable faith and religion to support them trust the truth. This situation also created a chaotic social atmosphere, which lead Satrapi lost her uncle and friends in her childhood. However, some details of the examples proof that since the regime uses religion to control people’s mind and thousands of people dead for their faith to against it, the rest of the people who seems like chameleon started to hide their integrity and easily follow the alleged righteous by self-disguise, which could help them protect themselves from the regime.
Through the comic, Satrapi told us an obvious example to illustrate a contemporary situation that people have no faith and religion to support their spirit. At the same time, it also mapping out
They all have the faith in their deep mind, some deceptive behaviors will help them alive in that cruel environment and my not prove that they have no faith and religion. The natural selection told them to survive and become tact and capricious to avoid punishment from the regime. And Satrapi teaches us that we must learn to protect ourselves from the dangerous world. At the same time, we need to find out and keep the balance between integrity and disguise. Even though the stifling life and society push us becoming capricious and tact to survive, we should never forget who we are and where we