Marjane Satrapi

government-set and social limitations to get to a better place in society. This is the foundation for feminism, the movement advocating for equal rights for women and men. In the graphic novel Persepolis and the tragedy Antigone, the main characters Marjane Satrapi, referred to here as Marji, and Antigone are examples of modern feminists who break through the limitations that were set on each of them. Women break limitations imposed on them by doing things that are seen as the defiance of…

Memory is the act of remembering. It is a conscious thought or recollection of experiences. Retrieving memory is not as simple process. “Rather, the remembering subject actively creates the meaning of the past in the act of remembering. Thus, narrated memory is an interpretation of a past that can never be full recovered.” (Smith) If a recounted memory is never going to be exact interpretation of the past, then memory is an intangible quality that can be explain through a number of ways. For…

What determines adulthood? Childhood is among one of the most important parts of a person's life and many people want their childhood to last a long time, but for others its cut shorter than they anticipated. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows us how a child can quickly become an adult when they experience major life events with stress and trauma. In the book Persepolis , a young pre-teen by the name of Marji is having her normal childhood as everyone else, but that is until the government…

exists in the world. Everyone will then have an agreement on the fact that religion is having faith and believing on what is above a human being. “Salvation”, “The Veil”, and “What God Got to Do with It” respectively written by Langston Hughes, Marjane Satrapi and Karen Armstrong, revealed an interesting experience during a time of their life on religion. Those authors by their writings expressed how somebody should lead his road through God beside the handiness of judgment that people and…

the reader; sometimes making it very clear in what they are trying to convey while others make it more open for interpretation. The format of the writing can even be used to lead the reader to the overall theme of the story. Both “The Veil” by Marjane Satrapi and “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood are written using their own unique writing style and format, however the scenario formatting of Atwood’s, Happy Endings, was able to give the reader a clearer…

In the story Persepolis, it is about the life of the author, Marjane Satrapi. She was born in Iran during the revolution period where everything changing. Death are happening everyday around her, freedom was taken away, and the huge difference was the gender separation, where girls and boys are separate from school and told not to have any sexual relationship before marriage. Girls were forced to put on veil and were told not to have any sexual relationship with men. In the book Majrane drew a…

Without a doubt, violence caused by oppression is everywhere. Any time you turn on the news killing, massacres, many injured, war --headlines the story. Somewhere, a country--a person, is defending the injustice that's happening around them or directly at towards them. However, violently defending themselves against oppression doesn't help the problem-- it only adds to it. Oppression will never end unless something is said or done, but starting wars in attempt to stop it will only make…

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel, and Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s own graphic memoir, Paul Baumer and Marji live in unfavorable environments, permanently shaping their beliefs and identities. During World War I, Paul fights on the Western Front where the war dehumanizes him. Before Baumer serves in the cruel war, he is blinded by the glory he is told he will receive by entering Germany’s army. However, after months of witnessing inhumanely killed…

The theme of gender roles has a major effect on the way a book is written. This theme is shared with the two books “The Complete Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi and “The Brief, Wondrous life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz. The first difference the reader can see is that, although sharing the same theme, have a very different view on what it means to be masculine or feminine, due to different cultural lifestyles. Secondly, the characters of the stories must then change the way they grew up or believe…

Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi both novels have to similar themes, which is political repression and how the main character goes about fighting it. In Things fall apart British invaders are repressing the Nigerian villagers and in Persepolis the people of Iran are being forced by Islamic Fundamentalist to abide by Islamic law. Each novel does have a protagonist that rebel against their oppressors, in Things fall apart we meet Okonkwo and in Persepolis we meet Marjane, two strong…