Lolita

In Azar Nafisi 's “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, Nafisi describes how she and her students in Iran were able to to customize an author’s preserved constructed space into a way where they can find relate it back towards their own lives. Regardless of the setting of where each essay takes…

percent of the population in Tehran. That means they make up almost half of the population. However, they are not treated fairly or with respect even though they make up such a large percent of their population. Azar Nafisi in her memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, displays the unfair treatment of women in Iran and argues that they need to change. She also discusses education and literature’s importance throughout the novel, so that people will view it with more importance because literature is…

Azar Nafisi and Maggie Nelson both address the issue of the ideology of art in their respective works, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and “Great to Watch.” Nafisi’s work focuses on whether or not one can use art as an escape to an imaginary world of their own ideologies. Nelson tries to show how art can let everyone have their own thoughts and ideas, without the presence of bias from the media. Ideology is best defined as an interconnected system of ideas, and both Nafisi and Nelson’s works…

Looking back into human ancestry, it is safe to say that our civilization has evolved. Although one of the few things that have remained the same over the course of thousands of years is the fear of the unknown. It is natural for living species to distress over what we have no knowledge about because it could very much be a threat to our safety. This concept is demonstrated socially via ostracizing, humans separate others that are not similar to them because they feel outside of their comfort…

School and Its Lack of Empowerment The definition of learning, the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught, has not changed the execution has drastically changed from the time parents finished school. The demand for the new workforce to have a higher education is growing, rather than being able to find a decent job after high school graduation students are now expected to go to college and perhaps graduate school for particular careers. However public school…

Reading the Holocaust, Women, the Victims of the Iranian Revolution, Maus, Persepolis, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Reading Lolita in Tehran, allows us readers understand the feelings of the tragic events of these stories in their own individual ways shows their own sense of dehumanization in their events, but interlacing these stories together will deepen our understanding…

2 of our textbook. Freedom can be seen in the “I Have Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr.. The idea of freedom can be seen in the analysis of the speech "Nobody Turn Me Around" by Charles Eucher. Freedom can also be seen in the memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi. The topic of freedom can be seen throughout Dr King’s speech. Freedom can be seen in the "I Have a Dream" speech by King using repetition and saying "let freedom ring...". Martin Luther King gave a speech to gain…

In both, Barbara Fredrickson’s, “Love 2.0” and Azar Nafisi’s, “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” there is an overlap on the themes of small moments and identity. In “Love 2.0,” Barbara Fredrickson introduces scientific analyzes of the brain’s response to positive connections and presents an ongoing juxtaposition from both ends of love and strongly states how love is “forever renewable” (108). In “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Azar Nafisi illustrates her class meeting with her girls, who are driven to…

For years people have struggled with the notion of ‘personal freedom,” and in truth this has been because of people failing to understand where to search for the concept of ‘freedom.’ Maggie Nelson, in “Great to Watch,” states that she prefers art that is not a member of a dichotomy where it either “terrorizes” or “chaperones” viewers. Instead, she prefers art that is neither “terrorizing” nor “chaperoning” viewers because this art presents an opportunity for the viewer to form his or her own…

well with the process of learning. In essence, what matters more in a system subject to institutional and social constraints is adherence to the rules of the game and not freedom for self-identity and interests. In her work “Selections from: Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Nafisi Azar presents, from the experience she had with her students in the Islamic Republic of Iran, some of the strong social constraints that had even been institutionalized and became part and parcel of learning institution like…