Selection Of Lolita In Tehran Analysis

In many instances, individuals are obligated to use their minds as a source of imagination and emotion. Many believe that our mind is the source of our freedom due to the different ideas it gives individuals. However, our mind limits our freedom by creating a fence on our individuality and morals. Freedom in many cases is a feeling of access and a power to act without obstacles. Our mind is made up of thoughts, imagination and emotions. Access and imagination are discussed in Cathy Davidson’s “Project Classroom Makeover” where she conceals the fact that individuality is limited. Meanwhile, Maggie Nelson in her passage “Great to Watch” discusses how individuals are using cruelty as a way to fit in. In Azar Nafisi’s “Selections of Lolita in Tehran” Nafisi creates a
This is shown with not only the alteration of iPod to iRaq but with “The Running Man.” The cruelty is shown in how “the network engages the populace by paying civilians for confirmed sightings of the runner, which it then passes along to the Hunters” (Nelson 301). People are aware of their actions but they want to be a part of something bigger. In this sense individuals fence their own individuality and emotion to fit in. This is also shown in Nafisi where individuals literally and figuratively cover themselves to fit in. As stated in the text “I could not get over the shock of seeing them shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst in color” (Nafisi 281). The word mandatory implies that individuals had to cover their individuality and imagination. Their individuality disappears because they have no sense of expression. Since they lose their sense of expression, individuals also lose their imagination. They are mandated to wear a veil, which limits their freedom. As they took their veils off “each one gained an outline and a shape, becoming her own inimitable self” (Nafisi 281). Women are assimilating to the