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    David Miller Oppression on Women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Marjane Satrapi‚ in Persepolis writes about a memoir of a little girl growing in Iran. She refers to a secular pre-revolutionary time through contrast‚ the oppressive characteristics of the fundamentalist government upon women in specifics. In comparison‚ her work is very similar to Margaret Atwood’s‚ A Handmaid’s Tale‚ in which the central character‚ Offred‚ reflects upon her former life’s

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    contrast between the Shah and the Ayatollah is shown through her childhood and how she was forced to change the way she lived. Under the Ayatollah life became radically different and even dangerous for Satrapi that her parents sent her to Vienna.

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    In the graphic novel Persepolis (2000)‚ author Marjine Satrapi is living as a young girl in the Islamic Revolution of 1978. She experiences change in social classes economically between her friends and her family. Marji notices how the revolution impacts everyone around her in a way that shapes their own lives. Persepolis shows a message that higher economic levels raise the standard of how one lives. To start off‚ Satrapi uses artistic techniques to show emotion. She uses a sharp detail in the

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    Persepolis The memoir of Marjane Satrapi growing up in Iran is written as a very personal account in the comic book Persepolis. This is a story that describes her life during the Islamic Revolution which includes her moral‚ physical‚ religious‚ and psychological struggles she endured. Being the setting of a bloody war with Iraq‚ Iran was not the ideal environment Marjane’s parents wanted her to grow up in. Persepolis represents a unique life of a child in Tehran‚ Iran and the actions she took

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    The War of Childhood

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    The War of Childhood Progression of adolescence is represented in a variety of different ways in Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel‚ Persepolis. In Satrapi’s chosen medium through which she chose to portray her autobiographical novel‚ she demonstrates the loss of childhood innocence and the subsequent progression into adulthood. The medium in which Satrapi chooses to tell her story reveals the nature of her childhood. Adolescence is a balance between adult responsibilities and the carefree nature

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    thing that people need to earn and fight for; without it‚ there will be many restrictions. For example‚ many people suffer after the Revolution in Iran‚ Satrapi started telling about some of their struggles: “...the government had imprisoned and executed so many high school and college students that we no longer talked politics” (Marjane Satrapi 84). This is showing how the students of different ages stood up to a law to make some changes. Other people did not keep on fighting‚ but instead‚ they

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    Customs and Traditions‚Religion‚ and Social Organizations impact the protagonist of Persepolis. Culture of Iran overall impacts the protagonist‚ but these are the main factors. The veil is something Marji and the rest of Iran has to wear because of new customs.” Then came 1980‚ the year it became obligatory to wear the veil at school.” The quote is putting me in her situation‚ virtually. Marji really does not like to wear the veil because she feels like she’s being limited with her freedom. It hides

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    Transition on Faith‚ Gender‚ and Doubt of the Innocent The “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi is an important aspect to understand faith and doubt and the roles gender has in place. The author discussed the transitions of an innocent‚ curious child along side with faith‚ gender‚ doubt and ways it shapes a child’s belief in adulthood. Therefore‚ this paper will focus on the aspect of “Gender‚ Faith‚ Rebellion‚ and Doubt‚ alongside with Mary Daly and Saba Mahmood articles. Gender bias has always been

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    Through her textual and visual evidence‚ Satrapi highlights how Marji’s informal education helps her see the inequalities that exist within the social classes in Iran. The books she reads educate her so that she wants to fight the Shah’s regime and help the people in Iran gain some type of power. At home‚ Marji’s parents give her many books about people in other countries that in the past have tried to rebel against their own government. Satrapi includes a panel where Marji is sitting

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    book Persepolis. We discussed what the book was about‚ some of our personal questions we had about the book‚ etc. This is basically how our discussion went: We had 5 members in our group that talked about Persepolis. The first and general question that was asked was who was everyone’s favorite character in the story. Everyone said that Marjane was their favorite‚ but Tyler stated that Marjane’s mother was her favorite character because she was more rebellious than anyone else in the story. A question

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