Persepolis And Antigone Essay

For our final presentation, Dan Dan and I picked love as the main topic. The main reason why we picked this love as our topic is because love is one of the main thing that we read in the books for this semester and also we find love in our life everyday, so we can also make connection with our life. With the main topic, love, we split it into 3 parts which is the 3 different types of love we found in the readings, which are family love, love between friends and also love between 2 people which is also call lover or couple. And in this presentation the main topic ‘m focusing on is the love between family and lover. With these two topic I made connections with the two readings I’ve like the most in this semester - Persepolis and Antigone. In the book Persepolis and Antigone we can see a lot love between family. Especially in Antigone, we can see how love between family is important. It not only let Antigone and Ismene risk their life by helping/ defending for whom they love, but it also change the tyrant - Ceron. Ceron is a character where he thinks power is the most important thing, and he is cold blooded by wanting Antigone dead just because of burying her brother. However after the death of his beloved wife and son, his tears fall down and regretted for what he had done. And in Persepolis, we can see the bond between marjane and …show more content…
It is also the first step of forming into family. In Persepolis we’ve read about the 3 relationships that marjane had with 3 different people, and the most significant one is the second relationship. During that relationship she changed a lot because of her boyfriend, and when she found out that her boyfriend is cheating at her, she collapsed. In addition, in Antigone, Haemon, who always listen to his father choose to fight back and defend Antigone. the background of this slide is a photo of a crystal church that I took. It is a place where people promise each other their life and forming into a