Persepolis: The Story of How Marjane Satrapi Remains an Individual In the early 1950s when Britain discovered Iran’s amazing oil‚ the shah‚ a western controlled puppet was put into power to control and nationalize this resource. During the late 1970s the citizens of Iran started to revolt. Marjane Satrapi‚ a young girl growing up in the daunting oppression of the Shah’s rule and then the perilious danger of the Iranian revolution remains an individual by learning from her parents‚ keeping a very
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concept of the integrity was increasingly blurred. Until one day‚ her grandmother’s words made her wake up. The story told by Satrapi form page 131 in Persepolis II. Our heroine saves herself from the guardian’s hand by framing the innocent stranger up as a molester. After that‚ Reza keeps laughing at her and says: “That’s too cool! What an instinct for survival!”. (Persepolis II‚ 133) His words and opinion changes Marjane and makes her believe that she was right to become such a hypocritical
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Effects of Violence on Marji Although violence is intended to harm someone‚ there can be positive effects in certain situations. In Marjane Satrapi’s personal memoir‚ Persepolis‚ it is shown that Marji is exposed to a large amount of violence in her life‚ and in turn‚ it has affected her in many ways. The negative effect on her life include the emotional scarring that entails deaths from violence and also her increased violent tendencies. A positive effect of violence on Marji’s adolescence is
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2010 that have died from violence during the Iraq war. Marjane Satrapi sympathizes with these people and their families. She is against the war and tries to spread the word to her readers. In 2005 Satrapi was invited to speak at West Point‚ a military base that was required to read her novel Persepolis. She describes what she thought the trip would be like before and after it occurred in a comic strip called My Speech at West Point. Satrapi perceptibly addresses the issues of war‚ death‚ and insularity
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Persepolis is a postmodern work because of the style in which Marjane Satrapi presents her memoir‚ in the form of a graphic novel. Rather that retell factual stories with certainty‚ she is able to convey her childhood by giving her own experiences that encapture what her emotions and recollection of what the events meant‚ through images and dialogue. Satrapi makes a cohesive and moving memoir through her alternate style of the novel. The style of it makes the retelling of the story much more abstract
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This paper will focus on the analysis of the movie Persepolis with the use of some concepts such as rights of women in Iran society after revolution and change of life with revolution. The rights of woman after Iranian Revolution in society can be easily seen in the movie. Firstly‚ woman does not have right to wear what she wants. Additionally‚ she has to wear headscarf all the time. As an example‚ at the one scene of the movie Marjane Satrapi‚ main character‚ and her mother were leaving the supermarket
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“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” (Palahniuk) In Persepolis‚ Marjane Satrapi’s identity is formed by her childhood in Iran and solidified by her path to maturity through Austria and a return to Iran that are intertwined with her country’s tumultuous narrative. The forces that drive Satrapi to become a graphic novel author living in France are‚ most prominently‚ her relatives actions and stories‚ her experiences in Vienna as a teenager‚ and the geopolitical
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Beset with the unthinkable‚ the Islamic Revolution defines turbulent times for many Iranians (Tehran). Numerous females including Satrapi were robbed of their social rights due to westernizing and secular efforts (Tehran). In turn‚ the Islamic Revolution undermined the younger Satrapi’s ability to come to terms with her own identity; nevertheless‚ she now writes to share her experience with oppression and her later journey towards cultural integration. It is a historical dispute that woman did
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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
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Persepolis is a graphic autobiography by Marjane Satrapi that characterize her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The title is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire‚ Persepolis. During the 1980s when this book is set‚ Iran was having the largest revolution in the country’s history. We are going to see Marg’s evolution threw out five major themes: religion‚ family‚ friends‚ society and authority. We are going to peruse the pros
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