Teenagers In 'Creon By Sophocles' Antigone

People grow up in different way, affected by many different things as they grow and mature, during the process people change perspectives and ideals. In the book "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi, a middle eastern girl who is coming of age, finds that her environment changes her as the country that she is in goes through an unstable violent state. With the rise of multiple changes, Marji’s family must learn how to adjust to the changing times. While Marji becomes a bystander to the persecution, violence ,and revolution, the main theme of the book is stay true to one’s self and forming one’s true identity through their own will. Marjane Satrapi shows how the quirky, but simple and straightforward communist child in a changing world to a grown young adult who is confused about herself and the world around her.

For readers who live in different countries with a huge difference in comparison to their governments such as America. Readers in America would most likely interpret this book as a call of pity or rather an eye-opener to other countries as “Persepolis” shows the culture and economy of Iran. In American they have a democratic government meaning that people have the right to fight and speak up for their ideas and beliefs, in other terms they have the right to freedom of speech, unlike in Iran when people protest to the government or ruler they get shot right in the spot or rather imprisoned and torture.

“Iran was the epitome of evil” This was the world’s view of Iran during its revolution. Persepolis is the autobiography of Marjane Satrapi, and it is written from a child’s perspective. Telling Persepolis from a child’s perspective affects the empathy a reader would have for Marji because people often feel more sympathy for children than other adults. Children are often seen as innocent, impressionable, and kind. This places them in a separate category where they are often judged as innocent until proven guilty because they typically do not have the experience nor the will to lie, hurt, or deceive people. Adults, unlike children, can have all or some of the aforementioned characteristics that cause them to be judged as guilty until

The opening events of the play Antigone, written by Sophocles, quickly establish the central conflict between Antigone and Creon. Creon has decreed that the traitor Polynices, who tried to burn down the temple of gods in Thebes, must not be given proper burial. Antigone is the only one who will speak against this decree and insists on the sacredness of family and a symbolic burial for her brother. Whereas Antigone sees no validity in a law that disregards the duty family members owe one another, Creon's point of view is exactly opposite. He has no use for anyone who places private ties above the common good, as he proclaims firmly to the Chorus and the audience as he revels in his victory over Polynices. He sees Polynices as an enemy to

The book, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, was written by Marjane Satrapi; it is the story of her life in Iran from birth to fourteen years old. The perspective of Marjane, in her novel, affects the overall presentation of revolution, religion, and social classes. Consequently, with no background knowledge, we only have her perspective which affects our own opinion about the events of the book.

At some point in their lives, everyone goes through that archetypal phase of teenage rebellion. While this may be slightly different from person to person, almost all kids rebel at some point in their childhood. Their rebellion, however, will differ and depend on their own personal situation or environment. Even when talking about one single person, rebellion changes with the situation. This is exhibited in many ways in real life and literature. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi employs graphic and textual elements and strategies on pages 3 and 117 to illustrate how the increasing amount of pressure and violence that is put on Marji and her living environment cause her to rebel more frequently and in more severe ways.

Rebelling has been a part of many people’s lives whether people try to or not, but not acts of rebellion are the same. In Iran, the Iranian people rebel against the Ayatollah in many minor and subtle ways. These small acts of rebellion could result in imprisonment or even death. In Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, the people of Iran bravely protest against the Islamic government in many subtle ways which show their determination to risk everything and fight for not only what the believe in, but also their country.

Rebellion: an act of armed resistance to an established government or ruler (“Rebellion”). The book, Persepolis, follows the main character, Marji, as she grows up during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. She and her family participate in rebelling against the monarchy and religious leaders for a democratic republic, whether in the street or in their home. In Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis, the author explores Marji’s evolution from being a confused girl who listens to what she is told to a confident young woman who stands away from social norms, in order to illustrate society’s participation in rebellion against religious leaders who want to create an oppressed society.

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi uses simple images and words together to convey complex insight on characters. In the story, Marji, a young girl and her family are in the Iranian war and witness or hear of everything tragic and joyful that happens to their people. Due to the child perspective of the war, Marji allows readers to have insight on a naive girl’s outlook on a war. She shows the confusion of being a child and in this situation by using her expressions, thoughts, and position in comparison to other characters to convey how the war is affecting her than the more experienced people surrounding her.

Marjane Satrapi’s Bildungsroman novel, Persepolis, was written to show that childhood innocence deeply affect’s one’s ability to comprehend conflicted situations surrounding them in society. We see this in a unique way through the eyes of the young main character in the novel, Marjane Satrapi herself, as she describes conflicts against her society in her own naïve way. Satrapi is fed information about what is going on in her country through media, books, and her parents, leaving her tore on what to believe is really true. She comes to terms with her innocent mindset near the beginning of the text, when her father is explaining to their family a protest he was taking pictures of, where she openly admits, “I realized then that I didn’t understand

French philosopher Jean Baudrillard spoke: “the world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.” In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, the events and effects of the Islamic Revolution are portrayed; what is most notable, however, are the steps taken to portray Satrapi’s personal position. In her graphic text, she illustrates her work with a sharp black and white contrast, utilized to portray a variety of themes. How can one’s perspective filter the way they view the world around them? That question is what Satrapi challenges with Persepolis, which distinguishes her work. Through the black and white scheme, Persepolis illustrates political and social extremism; a lack of gray area between opposing sides of political warfare, especially from a victim’s perspective. A child’s innocence is portrayed by the black and white scheme, as well as the book’s formatting, in an attempt to both politicize the surroundings of Satrapi and humanize her existence as a regular youth who conversely resulted in being victimized by war. Persepolis additionally has an aimed exclusion of color that directly refutes those who ostracize and discriminate against Iranian people.

Persepolis tells the story of a young girl named Marjane who grew up in Iran in the 1970’s. Iran at the time was a dictatorship that experienced a period with a new leader as well as a war with Iraq. Throughout Part One of Persepolis women and young girls are marginalized, excluded, and silenced in order show the oppressive dictatorship of their religious society. Some examples of this are how they are forced to dress, the jobs they are allowed to have, the way they must act, as well as what happens to them when they are arrested. These are just some of the many examples of how women in Persepolis are marginalized, excluded, and silenced particularly by a religious dictatorship.

In Persepolis, a graphic autobiography written by Marjane Satrapi, Satrapi uses the graphic memoir as a medium to dissolve Western notions of Iranians. By presenting her life as a typical Iranian child living amid the Islamic revolution and Iran-Iraq Gulf War, Satrapi makes it difficult for the reader to hold onto preconceived beliefs that Iranians are all part of a rigid fundamentalist movement. Persepolis, told from the perspective of Marjane the narrator, and the perspectives of her mother, father, and other family members, takes the reader on a very personal journey. Satrapi recounts her experiences growing up amidst the political changes in post-revolutionary Iran, offering the reader an in-depth experience of a time during which students are being separated by gender lines, women's rights are being gradually eroded, and people are getting arrested and executed simply for being suspected of rebelling against the regime. By using the medium of the graphic novel, which marries simple black and white images, Point of view of the narrator, and characterization, Satrapi is able to effectively communicate via both illustrative symbolism and language the struggle for freedom and autonomy in post-revolutionary Iran, a struggle otherwise impossible to convey via language alone.

In the graphic novel Persepolis, author Marjane Satrapi shares her first-hand account of the herself as a young girl growing up in a war zone. The Islamic Revolution molded Satrapi’s identity of how life should be--the righteous path of Islam. Children were taught the morals and ethics of society through adults who looked to guide them down a strict, religious path. Furthermore, the education system and government were against any form of self-expression in children, even if they didn’t know any better at such a young age. In the graphic novel Satrapi demonstrates the effects of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and how the implementations obstructed personal growth of identity in young children.

Persepolis, a graphic biography of a girl named Marji, expands on her maturation and forming identity in Iran during the Islamic regime. The book is written in black and white with simple lines to symbolize the political and moral dichotomy in society and within herself. The book begins with Marji at age ten—full of curiosity and trustworthiness towards authorities. She transitions by the conclusion of the book, through her own rebellion and realization, and she acquires her independence and knowledge of the political, social, and religious issues in her country. This paper will analyze Marji's maturation as she learns to stand up for herself, realizes how religion and politics can be used for evil ends, and discovers her sense of morality.