Persepolis: A Brief Essay

Be that as it may, it would only make sense that these actions done by Satrapi did show her individuality. “I put my 1983 Nikes on...and my denim jacket with the michael jackson button, and of course, my headscarf” (Satrapi 131) was the outfit of choice Marji left her house in. Knowing the strict committees were prowling the streets and the Islamic army was up and down the sidewalks, she was determined to go and buy cassette tapes of michael jackson and Kim Wilde, both very western as well as forbidden artists at this time. Satrapi chose to make herself a target by going out alone decked out in very “west” choices, she knew they were frowned upon by nearly every adult working for the government so she was choosing to life her life as a young women as if there were no restrictions or limits on everyone at this time. If Satrapi was not intending to show her bold character, she would not of made Marji a public enemy and simply had her listen to music and dress up in the safety of her own home. During this time in Iran, women were seen as …show more content…
A derogatory term is used when Marji is shopping with her mother, “soon it won’t just be the food. With all these sluts out there, we’re going to have to watch our husbands” (Satrapi 93) to describe the women food shopping. As well as the term whore, used by a women to describe another women it argues how discrimination could not only responsible by Iranian men. If women were describing each other in suc vulgar ways, what was so wrong with men doing it also? Author Hillary Chute argues that Satrapi wrote Persepolis by modeling a feminist methodology bias, since the author is narrating herself throughout (Chute). As in any good writing, a bias writer is not present. In this case, it is questionable as if Satrapi was in fact writing bias when portraying how cruel the struggles of women in Iran were