Cannes Film Festival

Feminism, the equality of both men and women, is seen in both Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, and in Sophocles’s tragedy, “Antigone”. Despite having been written in different time periods, Persepolis in 1980 and Antigone around 600 BCE, the two authors can be considered feminist of their time as both their stories discuss the lives of women in times of political oppression. Persepolis is the autobiography of Marjane Satrapi as she grows up in Iran during times of…

Lalita Kondubhatla Professor Bowers Writing 01 12 December 2014 The importance of the Veil In the graphic autobiography, “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi takes place roughly ten years after the Islamic revolution which includes a lot of information regarding femininity during the Islamic revolution. As Satrapi describes from a ten-year old perspective, she talks about how shortly after the Islamic Revolution the girls are asked to wear the veils over their heads and cannot look a man in the…

conception of the author dictates that the author should be viewed as a creative genius and the authority behind a text. As such the author is a vital element of the creative film making process, as Altman acknowledges: “somebody has to create the basic blueprint” (Richolson, 1992: 152). ‘Auteurism’ is the concept of a film as the personal expression of the writer or director; as Lapsley explains; “The displaced orthodoxy can be encapsulated by the single word ‘auterism’: the belief that cinema…

This essay will be discussing how the motif of sacrifice is used by Toni Morrison throughout her novel Sula (1974), namely the sacrifice of motherhood. Sacrifice is found in different forms in Sula; physically through self-mutilation, murder or suicide and also the emotional sacrifice of love. This sacrifice of love is shown primarily through the mothers in the story, through what they have had to give up to keep their children alive. The motif of sacrifice in Sula is most strongly…

The Iranian Revolution may not seem like the ideal situation for humour to be applied, but humour is seen often in Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis; a book retelling Satrapi’s childhood during the revolution. Although her story is littered with the tragedy and brutality of oppression and war, the horrors she experienced are often combined with funny moments that seem impossible in her situation. The premise of humour may seem out of place in a graphic novel about a terrible time, the…

Everybody with a sibling can tell you that as children there were many fights. Most of the time it would end with some sort of punishment, like being forced to sit it time out or being grounded. Yet we have all seen our parents fight and they never get punished for it. The conflict of parent and child, and many other conflicts, are seen in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. This graphic novel tells of Satrapi’s tween years, where she lived through the Iranian Revolution and struggled against both…

Imagine siblings watching the same thing happen, then they both go tell people two different versions of the same story. Why is that? Well it’s simple, the siblings have different perspectives. Nobody’s perspective is ever going to be exactly the same as someone else and the person’s perspective will affect how that person presents a story, topic, or idea. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s perspective affects how she presents many things, such as nationalism, religion, and social classes.…

The graphic novel Persepolis was a very informing novel, that gave me a insight on what it was like to be a child growing up in a nation that was undergoing a war. The moment after I read the first page, I instantly became hooked because of the look of annoyance on the young face of Marji. At first, I was so confused, because I thought how could such a young child portray such a strong look of distaste on her face. However, as the novel progressed onward I finally understood; her nation was…

Marjane and Nujood The authors of both The Complete Persepolis and I am Nujood write about places where women have little or no freedom. Women in Iran and Yemen are supposed to behave a certain way and do not get as many choices as men. Also, women are not given a good education or expected to have a job. Plus, they do not have any religious freedom. Everyone is expected to believe in whatever God their countries worship. Marjane Satrapi and Nujood Ali, the main characters, are both living in…

The Complete Persepolis relates the story of Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian woman growing up in the center of the Iranian revolutionary movement, who since a young age saw the horror of the war herself and got involved in the ideologies of the opposition side. The style and figurative language she utilizes to present this autobiography highlights the reality of wartime in Iran and describes society’s ways of living before and after the insurgency. This graphic novel depicts Satrapi’s autobiography…