Analysis Of Marjane Satrapi's 'The Shabbat'

In everything we experience in life it makes us a certain way or sensation. When we achieve something for example we feel accomplished in that we have put in effort to reach a goal. When we lose we feel the feeling of sadness or maybe even anger. When we smell a smell, or taste a taste from a decade ago we are able to paint a picture of a certain place or item. Marjane Satrapi is able to do this through her words in her short story, The Shabbat. She is able to express her emotions she felt in childhood through her words as well as through images. Psychoanalytic Criticism started off in the early 1800's from a man named Sigmund Freud. He treated patients of his for their behavioral disorders. From his work was extracted that because of certain events such as childhood events, or something that made us extremely happy or sad will lead us to form an opinion or judgement without knowing we are doing so. Showing emotions through the characters of a story is similar to his work. Satrapi shows emotions of both happiness and great sadness throughout the story. The Shabbat starts off with a family having a …show more content…
Her mother then reminds her that it is a Saturday, and that Jews should be home on this day because it is the Jewish Sabbath day. Immediately the Marjane's heart must have sank because now she has to check through the rubble. Her mother tries to change the subject to pull her away from reality, but cannot. Marjane sees her friend Neda's bracelet in the rubble of the home wreckage attached to something unknown. The bracelet must have reminded her of the memories Marjane had with Neda and the stories they had together. The story concludes with the following quote “No scream in the world could have relieved my suffering and my anger. As a child Marjane most likely cried or yelled out loud to let out anger as a child and is her natural way of