In the early 1980’s a new bureaucracy emerged, evoking a massive change in the daily lives of Iranian women. New laws of the Islamic Revolution put women in the position of being worth “half of men” (in terms of murder blood money, witness testimony for trial, etc.) and required women to wear a mandatory veil in public under the threat of imprisonment. If they are not imprisoned, women are either fined or flogged. Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis: The Story of Childhood, chronicles her life as she grows up in post-revolutionary Iran. Satrapi employs comparison and contrast to illustrate the discrepancies between women and the law during this pivotal time in Tehran’s history. To begin, the novel opens with Satrapi’s character,
