Theme Of Freedom In Luisa Valenzuela's 'The Censors'

The idea of Freedom can be seen throughout Collection Two of our textbooks. Freedom can be seen in Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream “speech when he talks about the bad check being cashed and his dream. In the memoir “Reading in Lolita in Tehran from Persepolis 2” by Azar Nafisi, freedom is the main point in the story and can be seen when she describes how they must dress and what life was like during her mother’s generation. Lastly, freedom, or the lack of it, is the main topic of Luisa Valenzuela’s short story “The Censors” and is shown when the role of a censor is and when he censors his own letter.

Throughout Dr. King’s speech the topic of freedom is seen. One symbol shown in the speech is,” Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, …show more content…
In the text, a piece of evidence that helps to show their freedom is, “Although they came from very different backgrounds, the regime that ruled them had tried to make their personal identities and histories irrelevant. They were never free of the regime’s definition of them as Muslim women.” The quote from the book is significant because it tells the reader that as long as these women are Muslim, they will never be free to make their own decisions. This sentence also shows that Muslim women don’t get any freedom of their own and have to base their lives off of the regime. The second quote of freedom is,” Is she angry that women of her mother’s generation could walk the streets freely, enjoy the opposite sex, join the police force, become pilots, live under laws that were among the most progressive in the world regarding women?” The freedom of Muslim women was very different from now because back then they could do whatever they wanted, but now they must follow the regime or else they will be tortured. The author is asking this question because she wants to know how these women feel to know that the women during their mother’s generation was very