feature of today’s increasingly global society. However‚ when there is a forceful movement of people to a new religion‚ this migration results in a diaspora where the group is removed from their country of origin. An example of this is visible in Persepolis‚ a film adapted from Marjane Satrapi’s novel. The story shows the life of Marjane as she flees the Iran following the Shah’s overthrow in 1979. It shows the struggles of assimilating into a new community while maintaining a cultural identity‚ and
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Marjane Satrapi says in multiple interviews that she does not subscribe to feminism; instead‚ she describes herself as a humanist. However‚ her graphic novel memoir‚ Persepolis‚ has several themes at its core that convey feminist ideals. Throughout the novel‚ Marjane constantly expresses frustration with Iran’s strict regulations on women. She also grows up with strong female relationships in her family; these women help shape Marjane into the woman she is today‚ a woman who won’t stand for inequality
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authors to express their life and troubles they have been through. Marjane Satrapi also does this‚ although she mainly tries to show how children‚ secularists‚ nationalists and even Muslims were excluded‚ marginalized and silenced in this period of time‚ during the Islamic revolution in the 1980’s. Her literary work‚ Persepolis‚ works as an expression for the ones who were oppressed during the Islamic revolution. Marjane Satrapi grew up under oppression‚ this is already shown from the first page of
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Wednesday‚ April 18‚ 2012 1:04 PM I will also give hardcopies: ENG 10 Professor Julie “the Bolt” Literary Analysis or Short Story for Persepolis Goal of assignment: To explore and demonstrated critical and creative knowledge learned from the text. Length: Aim for this paper to be longer than you last. Strive for 5 pages. Workshop: We will have a workshop next Monday and the paper will be due the following Monday. Remember: To carefully review final the final draft‚ to STAPLE and CREATE AN ORIGINAL
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to keep women from climbing up the proverbial social ‘ladder’. The degradation of women through the entirety of Persepolis is seen when the author highlights how the rights of women are slowly taken away and the obvious superfluous reasoning behind it. Early on in the novel‚ it is decreed that all women must wear veils in order to‚ “protect women from all the potential rapists” (Satrapi 74). The government justified the unwarranted decree through the reasoning that‚ “Women’s hair emanates rays that
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other people interpreted the book as well as how each one of us understood and thought of it. In fact‚ before having had the interactive oral with all my class‚ I thought of Persepolis as a Bildungsroman‚ however‚ as each student said their different opinions‚ mine changed as well. For example now I believe that Persepolis is not only a Bildungsroman but also a graphical memoire that gives an inside look on Iran‚ it is a mixture of both. Also‚ throughout this interactive oral‚ I learnt that the
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Satrapi’s graphic memoir‚ Persepolis focuses hugely on the loss of innocence of Marjane‚ which she illustrates by using several techniques such as the sizes of figures and the contrast of shades‚ as well as the of details‚ or lack thereof she includes in her drawings. Marjane’s drawings are more than mere illustrations; they are drawn the way they are for a reason. Figure sizes throughout the book vary to show the importance or maturity of the characters. In the beginning of the memoir‚ Marjane
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Persepolis was a very insightful movie about the lives of Iranian people at a very important time in the country’s history. Two topics that stuck out to me the most were the effects of the war on the everyday lives of the citizens of Iran and secondly the not-so-patriarchal lifestyle of people at the household level. Once the revolution to bring down the Shah began‚ which was followed by the Iran-Iraq war‚ the lives of Iranians were never the same again. Before these events‚ Iran appeared to be
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In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ the author uses words as well as illustrations in order to deliver the story of a young Iranian girl raised by a modern family in a traditionalist country. Satrapi composes her illustrations to reflect the current emotion or state of her character in order to accentuate certain events. She often uses splash frames and incorporates Persian flourishes into her artwork. Some character issues that are expressed through panel composition are Marjane’s
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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
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