Marjane Satrapi

The book Persepolis tells the story of young Marjane Satrapi and her experience during the Islamic Revolution. At ten years old, she is very naive and innocent at the beginning of this war, but it soon gives her knowledge on more serious topics of discussion. Marjane Satrapi’s perspective in Persepolis affected her view on religion, her loss of innocents, and her knowledge on social classes. Loss of innocence is something that everybody goes through, but having it occur at ten years old is rare…

pushed up against a wall and fucked. And then thrown in the garbage…. And that if I didn’t want that to happen, I should wear the veil…” (Satrapi,74). If she had been wearing the veil nothing would have been said to her. Also, the way one dresses will go along with identity. “In no time, the way people dressed became an ideological sign” (Satrapi,75). Marjane provides images of the fundamentalist women and the modern women she also does the same for men. If women denounced western influences…

In the autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the main character’s mother, Taji, is an assertive and modern woman. Taji Satrapi is able to stick up for herself and her values in the face of the Iranian Revolution. She takes on the role of a mother and teaches her daughter Marjane valuable life lessons. Taji demonstrates how to stick up for human rights and be her own person. She wants Marjane to have the freedom to be herself. Yet, the revolution forces Mrs.Satrapi to be…

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 picture at left depicts many people coming together showing their love and pride for their country by cheering, wearing…

is. As she grows and gets older, she learns more about the political issues within Iran. Marjane Satrapi portrays the process of awareness and acceptance within her book Persepolis through the themes of nationalism, the revolution, and the loss of innocence. [First of all] awareness and acceptance in Marjane’s life are demonstrated in the nationalism in Iran at the time that this book took place. Marjane sees the strong opinions that are formed during this era, which helps her to become…

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 protest with…

In Persepolis Marjane Satrapi grows up in a world stripped of many freedoms we observe in the United States of America. There are three different aspects of this story that I connected to. The first connection I made was in the chapter called The Vegetable “My mental transformation was followed by my physical metamorphosis.” (189 The second connection was her outspoken nature that wasn’t always appreciated by some people. The third connection is slightly odd but to her living in a regime where…

In the book The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi she recounts her life during the Iranian Revolution and the war that followed. During the Iranian revolution the Germans sold chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq during the duration of the revolution. These chemical weapons were a huge reason the medical resources were taken from the civilians and put towards the soldiers of the revolution. In the book, Satrapi talks about her trip to the hospital for her uncle and her witnessing victims of…

Monochrome In her book Persepolis Marjane Satrapi gives the readers astonishing pictures to look at as they read, and the pictures give a sense of how she felt. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s life. She tells about her childhood changing from a common childhood to a war-based lifestyle with conflict everywhere she turns. Satrapi portrayed these graphic pictures in black and white instead of color. Throughout her book, she uses the color black and white for the pictures to symbolize…

constrained by the limits of their memory. The graphic memoirs Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Maus by Art Spiegelman are both autobiographies that work in very similar ways to deal with the lasting impact…