Reading Lolita in Tehran as a Critic to the Changes in the Education System During the Revolution

Though the veil forms an inconvenience in the lives of all Iranian women, it serves as a form of protection in their lives against the dangerous religious extremists fighting for the revolution. Marjane and her mother did not believe in the religious importance of wearing the veil but knew they had to wear them for their own protection against radical religious men that could try to take advantage of them. The president claimed that “women’s hair emanates rays that excite men” (74). Supported by this proposition, men could claim that a woman without a head scarf excited him and he would rape her because that is what she deserved for being a “little

Lolita is a complex story of passion, obsession, and manipulation. In the forward, Psychologist John Ray, Jr., introduces the story; "Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,"(Nabokov, Vladmir Lolita, 3) as written by a middle-aged European pedophile named Humbert Humbert. The essentials of this title immediately strike you as controversial considering that a lolita is a promiscuous young girl and a confession is an admission of one's sins. Hum is viewed as the victimizer by others, but views himself as the victim. He blames Lolita for his disposition, but also feels responsible for causing Lolita so much pain. How can a twelve-year-old girl have so much power over an adult? Who is the victim and who is the victimizer? In the

Women’s rights is apparent in the fight for suffrage in the late 1800’s-early 1900’s . It can

An autobiography is coined as 'the history of a person 's life written or told by that person ' (Dictionarycom,2016). The author positions the reader to interpret his text as an autobiography and does so through the use of storytelling and vivid imagery, thus positioning the reader to reconsider or their beliefs towards aboriginals (Pryor, 2010). Pryor 's life started as a small boy from North-East Queensland, he then ventured into the career path as model which led to the

Women wanted to improve education in both university courses and at a school level. They wanted to open up career opportunities for girls that were once just meant for men, some examples of these were in sport and science. While this was happening other women were focussing on meeting women’s specific safety and health needs, this included greater access to contraception, abortion, and protection from domestic violence.

These women worked on the Southern plantations all day without relief. They not only worked in the fields, but also in the house with their masters. Though people thought slavery was a sin, as Mrs. A did, women could not challenge slavery politically because there was a great lack of decorum in women getting involved with politics, thus African American women continued to work for free (Doc. C). Even though this was a setback, women in the workforce pushed forward and strived to become equal. As women continued to chase their equality in the workforce, they petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to try and equal themselves with men (Doc. I). Although women started off slow, working for low wages, they continued to challenge for their equality in the workforce.

America is the land of opportunity. It is a place of rebirth, hope, and freedom. However, it was not always like that for women. Many times in history women were oppressed, belittled, and deprived of the opportunity to learn and work in their desired profession. Instead, their life was confined to the home and family. While this was a noble role, many females felt that they were being restricted and therefore desired more independence. In America, women started to break the mold in 1848 and continued to push for social, political, educational, and career freedom. By the 1920s, women had experienced significant “liberation”, as they were then allowed to vote, hold public office, gain a higher education, obtain new jobs, drastically change

During the time of shah there was much more freedom for woman, he did a lot to bring the status of the woman up. Traditionally men from Islam ic background “supposed to be the leader and woman were to look down at, and so they were not happy about that. Those were the guys that naturally wanted to get the Islam ic government in place.

During the Islamic Revolution in the Iranian country, education was essential to the people. Shah wanted the Western education because he believed that it was best for the Iranian people. Most of the women were involved in the demonstration of wearing the veil has some western education. The Islamic revolution wanted things to go back to the original Islamic culture. Based on the Complete Persepolis, in 1979, a revolution took place and later called “The Islamic Revolution”. This is the period they were forcing people to do what they don’t want to do. The women were also forced to wear the veil including the school girls. Being Educated will help to change a country, especially in undeveloped countries. When people are getting a quality education it will make life easier for them. Being educated is the most achievement anyone can make in their lifetime. The more education you have, the more knowledge you gain to solve a problem in any situation you have encountered. In Marjane’s life education makes her to have confidence and satisfaction in everything she has done. The people should encourage education, in our societies.

Schools continued to change after the Revolution. Teachers completely changed, they twisted their students’ minds into believing that the Shah was bad. To make this idea concrete, teachers had all students rip out any page of their textbook that were about the Shah or his family. “Children, tear out all the photos of the Shah from your books… Satrapi! You shouldn't say things like that.

The veil has always been a controversial issue for women in Iran. As time progressed and leaders changed, the requirements for wearing the veil changed as well. Prior to the Iranian revolution, Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was the ruler of Iran (Camara). The Shah’s main goal was to modernize Iran and make it similar to western countries. In this effort of modernization, he decided to eradicate the veil and made it illegal for women to wear it (Camara).

So basically the shah is a really dangerous person because, one of the Shahs policy to where they would torture people by filling up a jail cell with high amounts of water for a long period of time. So then Ali Ashraf Darvishian explained why children had to work at young ages. For example in the book it said “Reza became a porter at age 10, Lella wove carpets at age five, and Hassan cleaned car windows at age of three. While reading these stories she finally understood the same reason for her shame and for the revolution it was the difference between social classes” (p.32-34). The reason this is important, it shows the way the Shahs wanted to operate their country by making children do hard and brutal work at such a young

Many Iranian parents were furious about the education system during the Iranian Revolution, depicted by Maji’s parents having a conversation with the principal. The education system was one of the major changes after the Cultural Revolution hit Iran, during the Iran- Iraq war. Ayatollah comes onto TV to explain the changes that are going to occur and states, “The educational system and what is written in school book, at all levels, are decadent. Everything needs to be revised to ensure that our children are not led astray from the true path of Islam” (Satrapi 73). During the revolution and war, all education turned in favor of Islam. School kids had to mourn for the dead twice a day, beat their chests, put on funeral marches and have torture

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They separated the boys from the girls at school and made the girls wear veils. Not many understood the purpose of the government doing this, so for a while, everyone bantered the veils until it became a major aspect of the women’s attire in a short period of time. “We didn’t really like to wear the veils, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to.” (3). The veils didn’t serve any significant purpose except for the idea that the government no longer wanted women showing their body to anyone other that their family. As the veils became more of a big deal, the idea that is you didn’t wear a veil made you a slut to the average man began to play a greater role in Marji‘s society. The veils weren’t as significant as the many lives that were taken, and as many lies told to cover up the death of many people, most whom were innocent. As Marji listened listened and watched her surroundings, she realized that her government was wrong for all the cruel things that they made their citizens suffer through. “The BBC said there were 400 victims. The Shah said that a group of religious fanatics perpetrated the massacre. But the people knew that it was the Shah’s fault!!!” (15). The previous statement is a representation of Marji’s witness to the first incident that proved that their government had been corrupted. Although Marji was young, she understood that her government was wrong and felt the need to speak up against