Marjane Satrapi

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 her parents, the government, and herself. Satrapi describes this revolution through her childhood point of view in order to show that there is juxtaposition in all forms of conflict, because no conflict is simple. Marji, the young Satrapi, was internally…

Head strong, justice oriented, and shielded by childhood innocence, just to name a few, describe Marjane Satrapi character in Persepolis, a memoir describing the difficulties she faced adjusting to Islamic rule in Iran during the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Satrapi’s use of comics and dialogue effectively retells the hardships endured by the Iranian people during a process of revolution. Ultimately, Persepolis describes the clash of ideologies, modernism and fundamentalism, the way in which it…

In these two panels from Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis, Satrapi uses the contrast between the chaos and horror of the explosions in one, and the fun and happiness of the party in the other to highlight just how abruptly tragedy can strike. In the frame of the explosions, Satrapi uses sharp angles and dark shading to show the effects of the mines that people have stepped on, and the people flying through the air with keys around their neck are those who are unfortunate enough to suffer the…

The Iranian Revolution, social classes, and gender roles all had a significant impact on Marjane Satrapi’s life which is displayed in her book, Persepolis. To symbolize the revolution, we selected an image that displays the phases of the moon, which represents the phases the people of Iran had to go through to get to a complete revolution. To represent the idea of social classes, we decided upon a diagram that shows the percentages of the different social classes which explains why Marjane’s…

Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis is a true story about Marjane growing up in Iran during times of war and revolution. In her book she portrays countless events she experienced while growing up during those harrowing times. However, her perspective on certain issues like gender roles, social class, and religion affected how Marjane portrayed certain events in Persepolis. This political cartoon depicts a bunk bed of the upper class at the top, the middle class in the middle, and the lower class…

Innocence and Feminity in Salman Rushdie’s, East, West and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows the struggles from childhood while growing up in Iran to the subsequent encounters in Europe. Salman Rushdie’s “East, West” on the other hand uses fiction and reality and blends the two in its most controversial perspective. Despite the difference in style and writing language, the two books are documented in certain themes with complementing ideologies. The main objective…

Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical novel Persepolis received global recognition for sharing growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, and was thus turned into a film under the directing of Satrapi. The coming of age story explores many themes connected to the idea of captivity and freedom. This essay will explore captivities and freedoms within both the novel and film mediums of Persepolis, and how these two versions of the same story are capable as well as limited in exploring this…

was going through. In Under a Cruel Star, the story was about Heda Margolius Kovaly. She told her journey of the life she lived being a Jew, and after being free her country was taken over by a Communist society. Persepolis 2 is the story of Marjane Satrapi. She told the story of how her parents did not desire for her to live in a country that was at war. In both books, the protagonists came across friends who were supposed to help them when there was turmoil in their country. These…

The book Persepolis (2000) is memoir by Marjane(Marji) Satrapi and talks about her life challenges growing up in Iran during the 1980’s revolution of Islam. In the chapter The Sheep Marji learns that her hero, and beloved uncle, Anoosh has been executed as a Russian spy and she is heartbroken. The panel on page 71 is a depiction of her floating in space, all alone in her thoughts. When it seems like all hope is gone, you tend to feel lost and obsolete. This illustration of Marji explains the…

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…