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    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…

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    Persepolis Women Essay

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    grandmother, her mother, and herself has a strong sense of individuality that personifies them as being equivalent to the men who live in their society, In contrast, minor female characters emphasize the oppressiveness of society both before and after the Iranian Revolution. These characters include Marji’s teachers, her family’s maid, and her neighbors. While many of the major female characters in the book manage to maintain their strong personalities and senses of individuality, societal norms…

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    Compare and contrast between 1984 by George Orwell and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi about female oppression. Female oppression appears significantly as a theme all round the novel 1984 and graphic novel Persepolis. By presenting female oppression in different forms and ways they hold the element patently. Prolonged cruelty and unjust treatment have been applied to women as they suppress them under gender and sexual inequality. Continuously, in 1984 oppression of female is strongly noticeable…

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    Persepolis Conflict Essay

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    Conflicts of Persepolis Persepolis is a story based upon the life and coming to age of Marjane Satrapi. Through out the story, Marjane and the people around her face many conflicts such as war and oppression. The author, whom is also the main character, utilizes external, interpersonal, and internal conflicts to create multiple themes around society and women. The anecdote begins in the 1970's where Marjane is a young girl living among her family in Iran. The first major external conflict is…

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    In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, her childhood memories explain the difficulties within society. Although there were many changes, students were separated by gender due to the Islamic Revolution. Boys were in one room while girls were in another. Many students were not able to see each other. Most girls in the panel were depressed or upset. On the other hand, the boys seemed content. Girls were forced to wear veils. In this chapter, The Veil, Martyrs come into the town and tear down…

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    In the graphic novel Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, every black-and-white drawing contains a figurative or underlying meaning on what each represents. Specifically on page 10 of the novel, there is a drawing on the 3rd row of cluttered subjects piled up, looking gravely. These people are the center of the illustration, and next to the group of more than 22 people, is a five-wheeled bicycle that is meant for multiple people to ride on. All of the people are melancholy and some even have…

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    People are affected by culture everyday of their life; sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way. A girl named Marjane Satrapi in the autobiography Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi was impacted by a cultural revolution. Turning her life turn upside down. Over the course of a few years she had turned from a child to a young teen, experiencing the violence of war and eventually moving to Austria without her family. She was impacted greatly by the government, social organization, and changing…

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    Iran Revolution 1979

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    The Iranian Revolution of 1979 changed not only the government of Iran, with its fundamentalist Islamic overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy; this event furthermore impacted the political and religious climate of the countries surrounding it as well. The revolution ushered in an era of transformation in the Middle East. This effect on other nations, primarily due to the nature of the regime transformation Iran underwent, lasted for decades and into the twenty-first century. The nation of Iran…

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    The Conformity of Women During the Islamic Revolution Prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian women possessed numerous freedoms. Although the country was of Muslim origin, it was quite westernized; women had suffrage, protection rights, education, and the ability to exceed in male dominated fields. Moreover, they had the right to express themselves freely by choosing how they represented their materialistic form. That was until the Islamic Regime decreed that women would no longer bare…

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    disagreed that Iran should have ties to the West. To their dismay, the Shah of Iran strengthen ties to the West and particularly to the United States of America after the 1953 Iranian Coup. The CIA and the British were the masterminds of the coup. It removed the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh. His plan was to nationalize Iranian oil and reduce America’s and England’s intervention in Iran. Both countries were worried of the plan and launched…

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