Corruption In Persepolis

Being in a state of war, would you rather know all and only the good stuff about your nation or the truth about it. In the book, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the display of corruption was represented accurately in looks of the revolution, social/political awareness and religious aspects of the novel. The author had strayed away from using their teachings from school, where corruption was possible to overtake the truth when describing the events of the war. Parts where religious corruption was shown from this new reining power with the revolution was meant to be truthful more than rule following, which helped to prove the appearance of their present corruption.

The first part of the great display of corruption was from the revolution. Within

The religion that Iran was forced upon was Islamism. To represent this faith, the symbol to the right would likely be seen around a person sharing this faith. Then since the whole country of Iran followed these beliefs, they laws would likely revolve around them to be thought. Sadly with corruption in the government the pure faith was rearranged in multiple places. For example, veils. These in the actual muslim faith were meant to keep “your body secret to only you and god,” as said from a Muslim speaker. Yet, in Iran, its use was so that guys wouldn’t get overwhelmed. As prove from within the book, Marjane’s mom was attacked by two fundamentalistic men and spoke out “They insulted me. They said that women like me should be pushed up against a wall and f***ed, and then thrown in the garbage… And that if I didn’t want that to happen, I should wear the veil..” (74). This is a correct display of the Iranian laws then because of what’s stated in The History & Evolution of the Haijab in Iran, “Ironically, it is important to note that the women in Iran who are freely choosing to put on the hijab are ‘mainly first generation unveiled women, their mothers still wearing traditional dress’.” The information from the article then proves the encounter Taji had would be accurate around this time. Because of this “Ironicness” of the Iranian rules on Haijab’s, it would go back well on the present corruption of

Iran, just like thousands of other countries, was also politically active. Going in depth to their political and social awareness comes their tons of riots planned out. The government in Iran was aware of it and as shown in the image, they kept prisoners for opposing the current political and social standards in the government. In a well kept government, there wouldn’t such a limit on freedom of speech, maybe not as free of speech as some major countries, but it likely would still allow some to believe in different parties. Knowing this image is truly from Iran also justifies a point that Iran really kept prisoners for this sake, and since a decent government wouldn’t take in people for this outrageous reason it can greatly show a corruption. Persepolis had an example of these political prisoners too. Upon reading about Marjane’s Uncle Anoosh, it’s provided that he was wanted and taken in for his political beliefs, and from this he was their example of maybe not just a hero, but an everyday political prisoner in the time. Since this was present, it can be seen as they carved a path of corruption as well into their politics in the book the same as they did in