Persepolis Compare And Contrast Essay

Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, is a graphic novel written about her life and the struggles and challenges she faces and how she overcomes them. Maus, written by Art Spiegelman, is a graphic novel telling the story of his father's experience through World War II. In both books, the role that government and soldiers takes is different yet similar. In Persepolis the government and soldiers are meant to keep people in order and suppress rebellious acts. In Maus the government and soldiers are there to relocate and even kill the Jews. Even though they play different roles, they spurr the same effect. By making stricter laws it causes the characters in the book the rebel. In Persepolis, the government puts many laws in place the oppress the people and don’t allow them to do many …show more content…
The decrees allowed Hitler to then forcefully remove the Jews from towns and either kill them on the spot or relocate them to camps or other areas. In both books the government succeed at capturing the Jews or suppressing the people, they do this by installing fear into the people. The soldiers/guardians of the revolution are also similar because they target certain people. In Persepolis, the guardians of the revolution mainly target women. Women have the strictest laws put in place on them. They can’t show their hair, show off any curves, or do anything that can cause men to get aroused. In Maus, soldiers target the Jews and mainly just the Jews. This causes for these groups of people to rebel against the overall power that is placing these rules on them. Whether it is small or big acts of rebellion, it is still people rebelling which is punished very harshly in both situations of the characters. As Marjane describes in her book, she was a very rebellious kid. She grew up with her parents constantly going out to rebel against the Shaw, therefor at a very young age she learned that it is good to rebel against something you disagree