Marjane Satrapi

(2007) feature a flower moving across the screen, travelling through the different places depicted during the titles. This quite simple feature helps to introduce the audience to the main premise of the film - moving; mobility; change and growth. Marjane Satrapi’s film debut Persepolis (2007), made together with a fellow comic artist Vincent Paronnaud, is an autobiography based on Satrapi’s similarly titled graphic novel. This French-Iranian animated film deals with the subject of change, displacement

the graphic novel Persepolis, the author Marjane Satrapi grows more mature and undergoes drastic changes in herself due to the influences of her family, the social class system in Iran, and the western culture that had been forbidden by the Islamic Regime. She gains a better understanding of her country’s people and the divides that separate them, as well as growing more rebellious in nature. Due to her experiences with the social classes in Iran, Marjane grows to understand the divides within her

perspectives. As a matter of fact, the personal nature of the story, Persepolis, is portrayed through the images of imperialism, gender roles, and religion. These are also the main concepts and themes that Marjane Satrapi has to overcome and deal with in this story. Throughout the story Marjane experiences many conflicts of the nation, her home and herself while watching Iran being controlled in the process of being imperialized. For instance, in Persepolis the islamic faith is coming “in” and taking

The medium that is chosen to communicate a story, message, or lesson is a factor that hugely influences the way in which that story, message or lesson is presented and what it impresses on the individual. Two different mediums hold their own characteristics and portray the same story in a different view, that experience of the same story can alter or take on different routes from one another. While Persepolis, the graphic novel and Persepolis, the film are very similar in drawing styles and being

dialogue and illustrations. Marjane Satrapi shows the reader Marji’s rebellious nature throughout Persepolis and her desire to break apart from the general body and be one for herself. As a result,

The novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is written in the form of a graphic novel. This helps convey the stories perspective by letting the reader take in its information through the ten year old narrator’s eyes, instead of that of an adult. The novel is being narrated by Marjane, a ten year old Iranian girl, whose life is drastically changing in front of her for reasons she doesn’t understand. This novel explores a series of actual events but told from the perspective of a little girl. The use of

continuous Persian monarchy with an Islamic Republic under the Grand-ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The author, Marjane Satrapi, was a Iranian-born graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children’s book author. She wrote the book, Persepolis, which depicts her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Violence was a big lesson that Marjane had learned and witnessed. She saw and witnessed it in many different ways possible, physical, verbal

Persepolis is a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, this graphic novel was based on the eyes of a Ten year old that experiences all types of emotions before and after the Islamic revolution, the oppression from the leaders. This novel gives us a brief on the history of Iran and their leaders, to the Embassy being taken over, via how they weren’t allowed to party. They also experience prohibition just like the United States in the 1920-1933 and like many countries they didn’t have any freedom. In the

Both Orwell and Satrapi demonstrate their perspectives of revolutions under the oppression of powerful states, and how rebellions often tend to not be in favor of the people when not organized properly. Although their attitudes are portrayed through different perspectives, they both share the underlying idea of how powerful regimes are bound to take advantage of their people and how this severely impacts them. Satrapi and Orwell depict these desperate actions taken by the masses through the satirization

The movie Persepolis was about a girl named Marjane ‘Marji’ Satrapi, she and her family is from Iran. Marjane is a strong-willed, independent, and outspoken girl. The first scene and act of movie shows Marjane as a young little girl observe the events of the disastrous pre and post-Iran/Iraq revolutionary War of the 1970s and 1980s. However, as Marji grows up to a teenager, she sees firsthand how the new Iran, now govern by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive despotism on its now. So