Women In Persepolis

In history, women had stood behind men as companions or supporters. Women were treated as if they were politically and socially inferior. They were seen as men’s property. In the last hundred years, women’s rights in Iran or the Middle East had always been a controversial issue. In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, women played an essential role in the society. Throughout the book, Marjane showed how the Iranian Revolution had affected women and how the women around her changed her life. The book displayed the vital role women around Marjane have in developing her character and becoming the woman she is today in the Iran strictly feminine society. There are many women characters in the book that have influenced Marjane’s life. Such as Marjane’s mother, her teachers, her grandma, the maid, the neighbors, and the guardian of the revolution. Each woman plays a designated role in the story. Marjane’s mother’s role was to support her. Her mother was there whenever Marjane wanted to expression her feelings and she made sure her

However, after the revolution this changed by women being forced into the strictly feminine role by the society. Some women had managed to rebel against the rules. There were many examples that women in Iran rebelled. Before the revolution, women were not forced to wear the veil. When Marjane was about ten, Iran started the rule that every woman had to wear the veil. In the first page of the book, there was a picture that showed the teacher giving the students veil and telling them to wear it all the times. The girls didn’t know what the veil was for, and they were against wearing it. A girl used the veil covered her head playing around, “Ooh, I’m the monster of the darkness,” she didn’t take the veil seriously (Satrapi page 3). The girls had no respect of the veil, and they were playing jumping ropes with the