Reading Lolita in Tehran

intrigues the audience, but they need to keep the audience's attention and remind them how they can apply the concepts being used in the book, in their everyday lives. In Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Nafisi’s memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, both authors use their…

The concept of oppression has been used by governments to limit the rights and freedoms of inhabitants that reside within its borders. Throughout history oppressed peoples have had to question whether to suffer under the bonds of tyranny or rise up against their oppressors. Nonviolent resistance has recently been added to acquiescence and physical violence as the optimal coping strategy when dealing with oppression. This essay explores each coping strategy in detail and offers the argument that…

relationship between children and artificially intelligent toys and the possible negative outcomes that can come from the relationship. Additionally, Azar Nafisi explains the human rights violations that occur in Iran in “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran”. All three of these authors discuss the fact that human beings, whether he or she be a child or an adult, when given resources, can be dangerous and ironically, can do inhumane actions. Therefore, the real question is what are the…

own letter without regret and died the next morning and becoming another victim of his devotion to work. Juan could not trust anyone in his task and he could not even trust himself. Nothing is going to get done if there is no struggle. With Reading Lolita in Tehran woman named Sanaz is herself at home but she is to be unnoticed almost as if she was invisible. The author Azar Nafisi is raged because Sanaz does not know her true power which also applies to all women. Nafisi wants her to demand…

In 1995, Azar Nafisi created a safe-haven for reading literature with seven of her best female students. Prior to the Iranian Revolution, the male dominant Iranian government required every female to wear the traditional Muslim robe and headscarf. It was in the privacy of Nafisi’s home where these girls traded their traditional clothing for bright colored garments and literary discussions. By sheading their required dress, Nafisi and her students defied the totalitarian rules of the Islamic…

rules limit individuality. Karen Armstrong’s “Homo Religious,” Armstrong explains how people seek ekstasis to escape the reality. Primitive social people have regularly sought ekstasis, escaping the norm, through religion. In Azar Nafisi’s “Reading in Lolita in Tehran,” Nafisi shows how People who are under oppressive religious rule, Nafisi’s students, escapes the harsh…

In Immune to Reality, by Daniel Gilbert, Love 2.0 by Barbara Fredrickson, and Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, the authors propose circumstances where they use aspects of the mind and body to counteract culture around them. Gilbert focuses on the psychological immune system to target rejections and traumas caused by culture; Fredrickson focuses on a new form of love extending to strangers to reject the traditional view of love; and Nafisi focuses on self-will and social interactions that…

On September 11th, 2001, the twin towers were bombed. The media played a huge part in how the attack was portrayed to the country and the rest of the world. The media, in most cases, controls and influences how violence is perceived by society. The media hints that individuals watch violent shows to numb themselves from reality. People also use these violent acts as an excuse to hate or discriminate on a particular race. These ideas of images portraying violence and sadism is illustrated in…