Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Stereotypes

Myth Destroyer Unlike what most Westerners believe, Iran is not full of citizens that commit terrorists acts, fundamentalism, and support corrupted governments of Iran’s past. Marji combats these stereotypes by showing the outsiders that Iranian citizens are just like westerners. Marjane Satrapi is a well off adolescent who is born into the time during when the Iranian Revolution took place. Her parents do not favor the regime, and she soon adopts these views as her own and rebells against them. Marjane shows that not all Iranians support the Regime and its effects, Marji writes the book Persepolis to give Westerners a chance to see what life was like and not everything in Iran is like what the myths have told us. Marjane challenges

In one instance, she adores her uncle when she learns that he was against the regime and was arrested because of it. He told her his story, then fled and was held captive: "That was my last meeting with my beloved Annosh" (Satrapi 70). Marjane shows that people often stood up towards their power-hungry governments, and are fighting for their rights at what ever the cost. Her uncle was on of the unlucky opposers who was arrested and then killed. Showing that Iranian citizens do not have the power to chose what kind of government they live under is important to prove that Iranians do not support their corrupted goverment. By doing this, Marji can eliminate the myth that Iranians like they way that their government controls them, which helps show Westerners that Iran is not like the false myths that they have

A common myth set by westerners is that Iranian's don't care about women's rights because they are forced to wear veils and are considered lower than men in Iran. However, Marjane disagrees: “In no time, the way people dressed became an ideological sign. There were two kinds of women. The fundamentalist women and the modern women. You showed your opposition to the regime by letting a few strands of hair show” (75). Marjane shows that citizens of Iran are care about the rights of the women. The way you dressed was a great and easy way to show opposition to unequal women’s rights. The women that wore the veil over their head believed that all hair should be covered while the ladies with some hair showing oppose the rule and the regime that set it. And unlike what most believe, the women that are coving their entire body are not forced to do so, they make the choice. On top of that, the veil was forced to be put on women because of the religion that most citizens followed in Iran. The largest setback of this dangerous false myth is Westerners believe that Iran is not civilized and modern because they do not believe in giving women the choice of wearing the veil. Showing that women have preferences and only wear the veil for religious purposes destroys myths that there are no women's rights in