Persepolis Essay

In Persepolis, Marjane’s grandmother explains to her that “dynasties have succeeded each other, but the kings always kept their promises. The Shah kept none ” (27). With this in mind, the Shah’s actions fueled the Islamic revolution and consequently, exile. From a historical aspect, the Shah acted as an authoritarian under his political regime. In politics, authoritarianism occurs when a society’s government has a strong central power with limited freedoms among individuals. Approaching…

Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical novel Persepolis received global recognition for sharing growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, and was thus turned into a film under the directing of Satrapi. The coming of age story explores many themes connected to the idea of captivity and freedom. This essay will explore captivities and freedoms within both the novel and film mediums of Persepolis, and how these two versions of the same story are capable as well as limited in exploring this…

The East and West are alike and different in many ways. In the cartoon novel the Iranian artist seems to portray that the East and West have many similarities among them. She believes more in culturalistic resemblances between the Orient and Occident than the differences that puts them apart. This relationship shapes the narrative throught the text.It can be found in the beggining of the novel, the veil is one of the most prominent objects that represents the Iranian culture. The graphic…

In these two panels from Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis, Satrapi uses the contrast between the chaos and horror of the explosions in one, and the fun and happiness of the party in the other to highlight just how abruptly tragedy can strike. In the frame of the explosions, Satrapi uses sharp angles and dark shading to show the effects of the mines that people have stepped on, and the people flying through the air with keys around their neck are those who are unfortunate enough to suffer the…

“The Bluest Eye’ and “The Complete Persepolis’ can be distinguished as similar but severely complex. Bildungsroman formats the journey of love, independence and identity for characters development. ‘The Bluest Eye’ endures reconciliations between the protagonist, Claudia MacTeer and the world as she recalls a childhood memoir of being surrounded by “ruined” (Morrison, p.101) women, a corrupt family and a misfortunate lifestyle. Similarly, ‘The Complete Persepolis’ scrutinizes the irony of a…

In the autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the main character’s mother, Taji, is an assertive and modern woman. Taji Satrapi is able to stick up for herself and her values in the face of the Iranian Revolution. She takes on the role of a mother and teaches her daughter Marjane valuable life lessons. Taji demonstrates how to stick up for human rights and be her own person. She wants Marjane to have the freedom to be herself. Yet, the revolution forces Mrs.Satrapi to be…

Persepolis is a graphic novel, and it was created by the very skilled author Marjane Sarapi. Marjane Sarapi was bon in1969 in Rasht, Iran. Marjane Sarapi grow up in Iran and then she moved to Vienna running from the war and continuing her education. At the mean time Marjane Sarapi lives in Paris. Marjane Sarapi is very well known in writhing children books and her work was published in the most famous newspapers and magazines such as Los Angles Times, Time, USA Today, The New Yorkers, and New…

Persepolis was 341 comic book pages but only took me about half a day to finish reading the last 3/4 of the book. Marjan grew up in the book and went from early childhood to her mid 20′s. In that time she endured a war in her own country and was learning to live on her own. through the book she transformed into a feminism. She constantly brokes the rules set for females that are fine for males. I thought her actions where good because she stood up for herself when she was being treated unequally…

The book Persepolis (2000) is memoir by Marjane(Marji) Satrapi and talks about her life challenges growing up in Iran during the 1980’s revolution of Islam. In the chapter The Sheep Marji learns that her hero, and beloved uncle, Anoosh has been executed as a Russian spy and she is heartbroken. The panel on page 71 is a depiction of her floating in space, all alone in her thoughts. When it seems like all hope is gone, you tend to feel lost and obsolete. This illustration of Marji explains the…

Persepolis is a story that begins taking place in 1979 during the Islamic Revolution. It is told in first-person by the main character, Marji. This allows the reader to receive and understand one specific opinion and point of view. She is a young girl who is lost in her own thoughts. She is a firm believer in religion. Marji says, “At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet…” (Satrapi 6). Without further knowledge nor experience, she was already greatly influence into following…