Persepolis Essay

Do you take the rights and things you have for granted? What if you lived in Iran where people did not have very many expressive rights. How would you feel if everything you wanted was being held back from you because of where you live. Persepolis is a short animated film by Marjane Satrapi. It tells the true story about her own life as a girl growing up in Iran and how she was held back from enjoying the things she wanted to enjoy. Being Iranian changed Marjane Satrapi’s Personality in many…

In the book Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi there is an inside look into the daily life in Iran during 1980 throw ten years old Maji. The main characters Maji believes that she “was born with Religion” and that she was the last prophet at the age of six (Satrapi 6). With that in mind you can see why she has a great relationship with god. In the book you will see young Marji is really talking to God. That all charges with a major event in her life that made her turn her…

In the novel Persepolis it talks bildungsroman on how Marjane is growing up and developing her personality in her early age of her childhood.Marjane is first described as a young child who is very interested in her God.Throughout her life the book will describe how her identity and morals change as events in her life come in and she faces reality. “ I wanted to be a prophet...because our maid did not eat with us.Because my father had a cadillac and above all because my grandmother’s knees…

Michael J. Fox, a famous author and actor once said, “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything” (Michael J. Fox). The graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi tells the story of a young girl, Marji, who grows up in Iran during the time of the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. As Marji grows older and experiences what it is like to live through a revolution, her behavior quickly shifts. Marji is no longer an innocent little girl, but an independent, rebellious young adult.…

traditional western culture values more than protecting the innocence of a child. It is not often considered, but many go to great lengths to guard this intangible element of childhood. “The Shabbat”, an excerpt from Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir Persepolis, chronicles young Satrapi’s loss of innocence in a terrible way. This comic tells the story of a little Iranian girl who is living through the Islamic Revolution, all from a first-person retrospective point of view. In other words, this…

In the episode, ‘The Exam’ Persepolis monologue in which she highlights the dearth of true religious people in Iran. She also raises the issue of restrictions on display of emptions in public by hugging or kissing as it would lead to severe punishment like flogging, whipping or imprisonment. Such was the repressive law of the religious regime of Iran. After the execution of Shah of Iran. Marjane Satrapi also bring to the fore the importance given to Islamic Martyrs and their children. Here is a…

Albert Einstein, a world-renowned scientist, inevitably says that rules or laws are meant to be followed to the best ability of an individual. However, Antigone of the Greek play Antigone by Sophocles, and Marji and her family in the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, both intentionally disobeyed the law of their respective leaders/governments, and one of these characters is to be pardoned of his/her misconduct due to their current circumstances, intentions, and reactions to the…

The Maus and Persepolis While we read a story, we can compare it to ourselves as well as to our community. We can imagine how these people lived at that time, and how were their conditions only by reading a small detail. Those small details make the reader to have more information about that time as well as about the characters. The two stories that we are looking at are Maus and Persepolis. The first story talks about holocaust, which was the killing of millions of Jews by Nazi during World…

thankful that we have police, army, and prisons since they work to stop all of the violence. Violence being immoral Violence can be considered, perceived and understood as, “immoral”, because it violates the non-aggression principle, for instance in Persepolis,Satrapi is this girl who lives Iran who is telling her life from the age six to four teen who has to be told what she has the wear and how she is suppose to act just because of her religion. As she ends up leaving to Europe, she…

outcome, and these outcomes mainly result in challenges for progress. The resulting effects of conflicts such as the Russian Revolution, Iranian Revolution, and the Cold War created many challenges for progress in the affected countries. The book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a autobiography that depicts her life and how it was impacted by the Iranian Revolution. The revolution was caused because the Iranian people didn’t agree the western ideas of the Shah, the current leader at the time.…