Persepolis Dystopia Analysis

Female’s point of view in a dystopian society If you were a woman in a dystopian society how would you feel f you were trapped and had no rights? The two main characters are females that are trapped in a society where they don’t have much say. They both find ways to escape their dystopian society to live a better life. Being a woman was one of the troubles they had to face. They both make the reader see everything through their point of view on how they are trapped in a world where everything is controlled and dehumanization. Persepolis and Through Thy Bounty both show the dystopian element of violence. Violence is a behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Both main characters …show more content…
Control is a major factor in both stories that makes the reader see the dystopian element. In the story control is humongous because it shows how Marjane from Persepolis starts to see what the government is hiding from the rest of the world. In Persepolis the main character sees how their government controls everything they do and the way they act “they were the guardians of the revolution, the women branch. This group had been added in 1982, to arrest women who were improperly veiled” (Satrapi. 132) this shows that the young girl isn’t able to do anything without the government not knowing about it she had to hide her true identity so that nothing can happen to her or her family because she has seen a lot and has heard a lot of stories of people who died because they wanted their freedom and also because they spoke the truth about the government. In Through thy Bounty the main character as faces a higher power that controls everything they do “if it is in fact day; all the clocks in here tell me how much time I have, not what time it is.”(Snyder.34) this shows you how the time has changed because they want the main character to feel scared for her own life because she will never know how they are thinking until they finish her food that she made for them “. I go into the hallway, sit down on the concrete floor, and wait. There are three doors in front of me. The one on the right leads to a room with a soft hotel bed, a toilet, a shower, soap, and a change of clean clothes; I will get this room if the Jagaren enjoy their meal. Behind the middle door is a bare concrete room with a futon, sink and toilet; I get this if the meal is indifferent. If the meal is unsatisfactory, I get the last room, a cold, cramped, brightly-lit cell with nothing but a sink and toilet. The Jagaren do not want their cook to be contaminated with