Social Stereotypes In Persepolis

Women are often frowned upon in many societies. Although most do not, some societies make it possible for women to be equal. When not equal, women are usually forced to do things beyond their will. When women are free in a society and once the leader dies, who made them free, it will often turn back to the way it was before that leader, leaving women unequal. Persepolis forced their women into many things they didn't want to. Muhammad's vision of Islam is depicted different than Persepolis on topics of gender equality.

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.

An author’s construction of the protagonist/s creates as compelling method to demonstrate the tension between an individual’s values and wider society’s intolerance. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2000), an autobiographical graphic novel, and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), a traditional prose-fiction novel, use similar techniques to draw connections to the conflict between the two worlds, despite the two different textual forms. As Satrapi and Lee depict characters struggling to mediate between their individual progressive ideologies and society’s discriminatory dogmas, both texts ultimately present the irreconcilable nature of the divide between the personal and public. As such, the audience is able to establish a range of connections when both texts are considered together, through the confliction between the opposing public ethics and individual ideologies.

Self actualization is the key to the essence of Tayos character; a very important aspect in Native American culture. Native Americans have a large emphasis on knowing themselves. Self actuality is the highest point is Maslow's pyramid of needs, and in Native American culture it is very important to reach this height. One must become equal with nature and the spiritual realms. Tayo finds it troubling to find peace within himself. He suffers from the guilt of his cousin Rocky's death, and suffers with the fear from being in War World II. The novel explains that Tayo, "Was tired of fighting off the dreams and the voices; he was tired of guarding himself against places and things which evoked the memories” (Silko 39). Tayo suffers for so long and then he starts his spiritual journey. The dreams and the voices begin to stop, and he begins to return to his true self. He finds himself again and, "makes peace with his demons, becoming whole again in body, mind, and spirit" (Avila). In order to make peace Tayo has to find the cattle and become one with the land. Tayo realizes that the world is full of good and bad energy and that he must turn towards the good energy and eliminate the evil in order to move on from his past. When Emo is participating in witchcraft Tayo must turn towards positive energy and stay away from the evil deeds. Regardless of his half white race Tayo can now be accepted

On June 17th, 1968, Tim O’Brien received a conscription informing him he will be joining the army to fight in the Vietnam War. Tims physiological state immediately destabilizes which makes him question every little thing in his life. He told himself he wasn’t ready to go to war, to risk his life, to kill someone and have that guilt for the rest of his life. “I was above it” he told himself, wondering why someone down the street with less potential could’ve just went instead. When Tim feels this sort of distraught, he doesn’t necessarily think of the societal pressures that could come if he doesn’t go, but instead puts pressure on society for not choosing another person. Instead of swallowing the pill and pack for Vietnam, he puts blame on everybody else for his drawback and hopes for a way out. O’Brien holds himself to a high standard and thinks society does the same, so it does not affect him what consequences there would be if he did find a way to get out of war, or so he thought.

The thought of losing cultural identity predominate in this novel. Tayo, who is half Native American and half white symbolizes this conflict theme of cultural survivance. Tayo is to deal with the dilemma from his ancestor and from his own experience. His father passed away before he could know him, and his mother deserted him at the age of four, which affected his ability to negotiate his mixed identity and experience. When world war II took place, he is like many others, joined the US army.

Alas, Babylon was written in the early 50s and the segregation and attitudes of those times are specious throughout the novel. 1959, as African-Americans were fighting for civil rights in America and the third wave of the women’s movement was about to begin in the early 1960s. The portrayal of women and minorities is rather dated by its racial stereotypes and sexist assumptions, as most readers will discover. The female characters, included Elizabeth “Lib” McGovern- Randy’s girlfriend and later his wife is a bit native at the beginning but once her mother dies, she proves herself to be intelligent and thoughtful, noticing how the people are around her that no one else seems to notice, Helen Bragg- Mark's wife, and the mother of Peyton and

Out of the four Church Fathers, I liked St. Clement of Alexandria the most (in a close second was Origen of Alexandria.) He was probably the most appealing to me because of his openness to other cultures and their ideas, and being able to connect with them and write works that could be open to and appeal to those people from the other cultures. His idea of spiritual refinement I found to be in total agreement with, and that faith is truly not in opposition to reasoning. If there was one that I found the least appealing, it would have to be Tertullian of Carthage. I respect that he was bold, open, and ready to tackle head-on his own faith and the faithfulness of others, and was courageous enough to "roast" heretics in his writings.

Persepolis is a coming of age story for Marji living in the middle of the Iranian war and adapting to the changes to both her culture and her personal life. Inequality between genders is heavily discussed within the story, as well as the struggles between the fundamentalist ideas and customs compared to the less extreme morals of some families: it is shown through the simplistic, but effective images by Satrapi.

The world stereotypes different types of culture, but real identity can be only defined by a person who has experienced the specific way of life. In Persepolis The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi, the author creates a graphic memoir representing her childhood growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi evokes perfectly regarding her childhood, her reaction towards the Islamic Revolution. She is rebellious to the Islamic revolution’s new regulations and enforcement and decides to take a secular approach to defend her rights. In Persepolis, the narrator illustrates the opposition against the Islamic Revolution and Shah’s reign and as well as her pursuit in a secular culture. Her opposition and desire allow the readers to reconsider on past stereotypes about the Middle Eastern culture.

* Show how Marjane Satrapi grew up under oppression during the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

All women in their lifetime go through an experience that makes them feel proud and dignified to be a woman. Marjane Satrapi strives to find this feeling of self-worth and the satisfaction of being a woman in Iran as she grows up during her war torn childhood in her bildungsroman, Persepolis. Marjane experiences both positive and negative moments throughout the memoir such as growing up alone in Austria, speaking against women's dress codes, and her constant struggle to make her grandma proud, all which help her learn independence and help form her into a strong feminist woman.

Persepolis is structured as a graphic novel because Marjane Satrapi was able to use graphic weight, emanata and the organization of panels, to benefit her story. On the page that I chose to take a deeper analysis of Marji’s uncle Anoosh is allowed his last visit with Marji before he is sent to execution. Marji goes to visit him, and they both know that he is being put to death but Anoosh is the only one who speaks and tries to tell Marji that it's going to be okay because he was fighting for something that he really believed in. Satrapi’s choice to write this book as a graphic novel proves to be very beneficial especially on this page.

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.

In the graphic novel Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, the author tells her personal life story of growing up in Iran during the breakout of the Iraq and Iran War. Her use of black and white comic strips makes her story come to life in an entertaining and attention-grabbing way. Marjane growing up can be examined by using Erik Erikson’s theory of the eight stages of life. Persepolis shows how a young girl can overcome and turn into a woman that has self-love and finds who she is meant to be in life.