Archetypal Phase Of Teenage Rebellion In Persepolis By Marjane Satrapi

At some point in their lives, everyone goes through that archetypal phase of teenage rebellion. While this may be slightly different from person to person, almost all kids rebel at some point in their childhood. Their rebellion, however, will differ and depend on their own personal situation or environment. Even when talking about one single person, rebellion changes with the situation. This is exhibited in many ways in real life and literature. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi employs graphic and textual elements and strategies on pages 3 and 117 to illustrate how the increasing amount of pressure and violence that is put on Marji and her living environment cause her to rebel more frequently and in more severe ways. In the last panel on page three, Satrapi uses graphic …show more content…
One important similarity of the two panels is that they both show a clear example of types of rebellion. This is helpful in order to show the change over time. These panels also both show Marji, but in different ways. The first panel shows her in a happy setting, barely rebelling with her friends as they prance around the street. They are obviously having a good time together thinking that what they are doing is rebellious. In the second panel the atmosphere changes. The techniques are used in order to express a change in Marji. The later panel has darker coloring and shading, which represents a change in Marji’s way of thinking from lighthearted to serious. The facial expressions in the two panels go from happy and elated to dark and almost threatening. And the decreasing amount of verbal contact between Marji and other people as well as between Satrapi and the reader exhibits a sort of unneeded disconnect. These two panels are expertly done by Satrapi in order to show the type of change that Marji went through and how her rebellion changed because of