Persepolis

Persepolis has received high acclaim and praise but has also met its fair share of criticism. A lot of organizations and states call for Persepolis to be censored. Persepolis can be described as “sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always revealing and sincere.

 

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Marjane Satrapi's self portrait drawn in the back of her graphic memoir "Persepolis". The illustration, although very simple, resembles her well and shows bits of her personality though the inclusion of a cigarette in her hand, and platform boots. Below, we can compare her resemblance in the illustration to her photograph.  

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Persepolis takes place during the Iranian Revolution. This occurred from the late 1970’s. Though this is being told by Marjane Satrapi as what she remembers as a child the events are true to life. We see the changes of society depending on who was holding the power. This is a time of fight. Many people were protesting for changes but also fighting for power. This was because of Shah law, which many were not fond of. Satrapi realised at a young age that she was always ...

Marjane Satrapi is known not only for her successful graphic memoir, but also for the movie adaptation based on the book that she co-wrote and co-directed. As with many movie adaptations, it has received some criticism regarding its ability to portray emotion as "nuance and depth is needed". However, the movie has been successful and received international recognition and awards. Marjane's awards can be seen

Marjane Satrapi allows us to understand the Islamic revolution through the eyes of her young self. We are able to get a realistic, serious and whimsical understanding the eyes of a child. Through Satrapis stories, we have insight of Iran during that time. Satrapi reminds readers that a child’s point of view regarding war is just as important as anyone else’s. though a child’s impact because of war may be different it is still very real, and the emotions are just as valid. Re...

Laura: Marjane’s graphic memoir has sparked my interest from the very first page. Her use of a simple art style has made it easy to view the story through her point of view. Although her life has been very different from mine, I was able to draw some similarities between the cultures we grew up in. I grew up in Lithuania, a rather patriotic country, likely due to it being faced with oppression and forced assimilation. Lithuania’s native language faced extinction during Russia̵...

The characters in the memoir are presented in a very simplistic style. This has been deliberately chosen by the author to create a feeling of relatability. Satrapi has mentioned in an interview that the simplistic style allows the reader to put themselves into the character’s position and experience the story for themselves. This way the story of the Islamic revolution seen through a child’s eyes can be understood with less preconceived notions.

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Outstanding scenes

The graphic novel “Persepolis” is filled with scenes that most westerners would consider completely out of the ordinary. Marji is faced with the realities of living in a war plagued country at a very young age. There are a few scenes that are especially significant, as they have shown the extreme emotional, physical and mental challenges of Marji trying to make sense of her experiences in an unpredictable and violent world.

Scene: Uncle’s deat...

Her art is very simple but very effective. Her lines are very clean and distinct enough to see who the characters are and to see who is speaking even if they’re wearing religious garments.

Like her art her words are chosen carefully neglecting to add fillers and unnecessary adjectives, she lets her illustrations and her words tell her story in a very simple but very effective way. She’ll only use words when illustrations can’t describe what she’s feeling or is i...

The significance of Persepolis is show the oppression that happens in Iran. Statrapi wants people to know what happened in the 1979 Iranian war and the stigma it brought to Iran and its people.The Iranian war turned Iraq into a country who is deeply rooted in archaic and patriarchal ideologies and it forced its women to wear a burqa and or cover up with a veil. This graphic novel is very important because it shows Satrapi’s voice in a violent regime. She says the veil itself has brought...

Satrapi was interviews by Emma Watson for Vogues “Our Shared Shelf” bookclub. The two talked about the relative freedom that women shared in Iran in the 1970’s. Satrapi raised a very important point about educated women in Iran. She said that they have more rights because they can ask for a divorce, but if a woman is uneducated and not economically sound with children you stay with that man. She continues to say that 70% percent of women in Iran are in school because they w...

Marjane Satrapi became popular due to her graphic novel novels about her story in Iran. They were published in French. She later won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Due to the violent nature and language of the story, Schools in Chicago ordered Persepolis to be removed from schools and classrooms in 2013. This was a case of censorship and islamiphobia. The novel deals with Satrapi’s childhood in Tehran during the Iraq and Iran...

The voice of Marjane Satrapi is conspicuous in Persepolis as political and social impact that fits an affirmation of challenge. Authorial voice can be depicted as the talk or the manner by which a story is passed on. The story voice in Persepolis is worried about the nature of the speaker and whether it's dependable. In Persepolis and in many diaries, the speaker is likewise the storyteller. When examining the tone of the content we are additionally discussing the manner in which the story is...

Violence, Forgiveness, and Justice

The body count towards the end of Persepolis is tremendous. Before the end of the book, Marjane communicates her distress that “we could have avoided it all”, demonstrating a conviction that a great part of the harm done to the Iranian individuals was an aftereffect of the Iranian system's own behavior: its aggression with Iraq, its radicalization of young warriors, its religious enthusiasm, its valorizat...

• In 2001, Marjane Satrapi won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award, a major prize for comics authors, for her graphic novel ‘Persepolis’.
• In 2002, ‘Persepolis: Tome 2’ won the Angoulême Prize for Scenario, another prestigious award given during the annual Angoulême Comics Festival in France.
• In 2005, the Angoulême Best Comic Book Award was given to ‘Poulet aux Prunes’, Satrapi’s second work to receive r...

Back in Iran, she turned out to be much progressively discouraged. She was 19 years of age, her long-time friends had rejected her as a corrupt individual, she had felt as if she belonged nowhere and had no place that she can call home. She attempted to cut her wrists, however failed at that “a fruit knife was never going to do the trick”. She took an overdose of antidepressants, yet they simply made her rest for three days allowing her to escape everything that she was going thro...

Satrapi was conceived on 1969 in Rasht and experienced youth in Tehran, where her father was an engineer and her mother a clothing designer. Her granddad was Nasser-al-Din Shah, Persian prince and ruler from the years 1848 to 1896. Her family were communalist shrewd individuals who savored the experience of the incredible life - they drove extravagant cars, drank alcohol, and had stewards, intensely westernized. They waged holy war against the Shah, and foreseen the Islamic agitation till it ...