Iranian Embassy Siege

In the early 1980’s a new bureaucracy emerged, evoking a massive change in the daily lives of Iranian women. New laws of the Islamic Revolution put women in the position of being worth “half of men” (in terms of murder blood money, witness testimony for trial, etc.) and required women to wear a mandatory veil in public under the threat of imprisonment. If they are not imprisoned, women are either fined or flogged. Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis: The Story of Childhood, chronicles…

I’ve read three stories about different types of rebellion and the names of those stories are called, Cairo: My City which was the first story I read, the second one is named, Lolita in Tehran, and the last one is called Persepolos2. In all the stories, they are about people living in countries where they basically are under laws that are unfair and they are bold enough and fearless to go out and do things they there are not supposed to do knowing what the ricks are if they get caught.…

All I knew was «women wear a veil there» and «they believe in Allah». Therefore, it was surprising for me to discover that an Iranian teenager in the 80’s had the same feelings, the same problems and the same interests, as I had in my home country (former USSR) during the same period. We had the same "forbidden fruit" of the Western culture, the same "deficient" jeans and sneakers…

The role of women in Persepolis Kim Scheepens 21-10-2015 • What is the role of women in the story? Compare and contrast the various women: Marji, her mother, her grandmother, her school teachers, the maid, the neighbors, the guardians of the revolution. In Persepolis, Marjane shows very clearly that the women in her life had a big impact on the way she develops throughout the novel and these…

granted to foreigners which established the independence for Iran. He ruled for 16 years and provided much needed stability. He pursued a modern education, established the University of Iran and built roads and the Trans-Iranian Railway. For the first time in its history, Iranian students were dispatched to Europe. He was forced to abdicate rule to, Mohammad Reza Shah, his son, and died in exile in South Africa in…

Persepolis Perfect Paragraph One major theme in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is feminism and a major symbol that connects to that theme is the veil. In the beginning of the novel, Marji tells us that they have started to make veils mandatory at school, and the girls do not like it, especially since the boys can wear whatever they want. The girls complain that it’s too hot and play around with it, throw it on the floor, and take them off many times. They’re supposed to wear the veil in order to…

societies. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is an autobiographical tale that recounts her life as a young woman growing up in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution. Although Marji’s family has always been secular, Marji must wear a veil and attend a religious, girls-only school as a result Iran’s fundamentalist regime. This is the first step that the Iranian regime takes towards limiting women. Marji is optimistic and intelligent, but does not understand the condition of her country and its…

the emotional pull on the people due to the revolution. Satrapi’s novel explains how the new leader in the Iranian revolution has had an extreme impact on women’s lives in Iran. The new leader set a plethora of rules and regulations on woman’s rights and daily lives. In the novel the reader can grasp the idea that men are first and women come second in the Iranian culture. The new ruler believes that women are not at a high rank that men are. The women were made to stay at home all…

Regime. Many of the things the authors described were about the idea of Islamic women having to obey the rules that the regime has created or they will face severe consequences for their actions. The creation of this unjust regime was right after the Iranian Revolution which caused there to be an overthrow of the pro-western Shah of Iran. So, Islamic people rebelled against the religious beliefs of the regime. The authors also mentioned the effects of the rebellion were that they were given…

During the course of the Iranian Revolution, there were many conflicts in the fight between individual freedoms and collective national obligations. Ideally, individual freedoms and collective national obligations should coincide, but they clearly did not coincide during the Iranian Revolution. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi and "Individualism and Freedom: Vital Pillars of True Communities" by Edward Younkins affect the readers' views on individual freedoms and…