Azar Nafisi

compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past” (Faulkner 5). Two prime examples of books that attain Faulkner’s definition of the writer’s duty are Azar Nafisi’s memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Rebecca Skloot’s…

endorse most of her students attitudes and acceptance towards everything they’re involved in, including literature. The regime forces their opinion on having morals and only accepting things based off of Islam, everything else should be banned. As Nafisi begins to teach The Great Gatsby her students immediately show their biased opinions, which results in them putting The Great Gatsby on trial. The prosecutors are the portion of the class that are against what they believe F. Scott Fitzgerald…

A system that has an upper hand over the surroundings, or an individual can be considered as the higher force of that particular society. In Barbara Fredrickson’s, “Love 2.0,” Azar Nafisi’s, “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” and Karen Ho’s “Biographies of Hegemony” a strong relationship is evident between the narratives behind these high forces and our engagement with these narratives. In “Love 2.0,” Barbara Fredrickson introduces scientific analyses of the high force, the brain’s response, to…

fought over time and time again in history. Freedom is the choices we make every day. Freedom maybe is something we take too lightly as an American. We read about the hardships other men and women face in other countries all throughout Chapter 16. Azar Nafisi, whom is now granted freedom, didn’t always have a “free” life. She mentions how women are not treated equally to men, and it is a normal thing to be laughed at or made fun of. There are some places in the world where…

rules limit individuality. Karen Armstrong’s “Homo Religious,” Armstrong explains how people seek ekstasis to escape the reality. Primitive social people have regularly sought ekstasis, escaping the norm, through religion. In Azar Nafisi’s “Reading in Lolita in Tehran,” Nafisi shows how People who are under oppressive religious rule, Nafisi’s students, escapes the harsh…

Freedom can be seen in the “I Have Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr.. The idea of freedom can be seen in the analysis of the speech "Nobody Turn Me Around" by Charles Eucher. Freedom can also be seen in the memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi. The topic of freedom can be seen throughout Dr King’s speech. Freedom can be seen in the "I Have a Dream" speech by King using repetition and saying "let freedom ring...". Martin Luther King gave a speech to gain freedom for himself,…

Maggie Nelson discusses “desensitization”, the lack of response to a stimulus due to a surplus of exposure to it (Nelson, 306). In particular, Nelson discusses desensitization in terms of “image flow” (Nelson, 304). In Azar Nafisi’s “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran”, Nafisi reviews cases where the desensitization negatively affected society, but was able to be stopped. Moreover, in “Selections from Alone Together”, Sherry Turkle discusses some of the benefits of desensitization in…

spends a lot of time watching violent shows that individual can learn violent behaviors. Each author in their essay propose a solution to the cultural violence we see. In her essay, Nelson suggests that everyone become a watcher as a solution, but Nafisi suggest the audience to form a book club. O’Brien proposes his solution and that is to tell narratives. After the attack on the twin tower, the audience can see how the depth of consumerism between banality and terror deepened. People often…

Daniel Gilbert, Love 2.0 by Barbara Fredrickson, and Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, the authors propose circumstances where they use aspects of the mind and body to counteract culture around them. Gilbert focuses on the psychological immune system to target rejections and traumas caused by culture; Fredrickson focuses on a new form of love extending to strangers to reject the traditional view of love; and Nafisi focuses on self-will and social interactions that can alleviate the…

Azar Nafisi, a former literature professor, also reviews the conflicts faced by herself and other women in Iran regarding freedom of expression, in the memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.” These topics from the three texts are significant because they allow…