Nowadays film festivals have become common in our culture; from the Sundance Film Festival in the middle of January to the Rome Film Festival at the end of October, there is barely a day in the calendar where some Film Festival is not being celebrated in some part of the world. The most famous ones, such as the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, began their history in the 30's and despite critiques and negative reviews, they continue to be held every year. As a consequence, film festivals
In my first paper, I defined “the grain” as the dominant voice that dictates the conversation that is writing or authorship that contributes to the metaphorical and limiting City of Norm. I went on to argue that “writing against the grain” involves working to navigate out of this City of Norm and into the marginalized suburbs, into a form of writing that aligns with one’s identity and values based on personal social location, a form of writing that is true to oneself. Having now read Marjane Satrapi’s
The Significance of Juxtaposition in Persepolis It is not possible for a country to function when it’s people are against their own government. Persepolis is an example of just how problematic this can become, a world where the rule of the government is no longer accepted by the people. The people of Iran desperately search for solutions by revolting against their strict government, however their plans are often violently shut down. In the story of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi the juxtaposition
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) a traditional prose-fiction novel, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2000), a graphic novel, explore the significant impact the external world has on an individual’s sense of self, using similar techniques despite their different textual forms. Lee and Satrapi show their main characters Scout and Marji growing up in respectively 1930’s racially-segregated Alabama and 1980’s post-revolutionary Iran, negotiating the progressive ideologies of their families
When analyzing Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, under a Marxist Literary Lense, one can see an apparent irony in the protagonist’s support of revolution and left-wing ideologies like communism. Marji’s family is a fairly affluent family, seeing that they live lives of relative comfort and luxury. Seeing that the family is a part of the class of Iranian society that has money, it is strange that the family calls for a destruction of the current society that they live in. It seems that
Persepolis is a graphic autobiography by Marjane Satrapi that describe her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The title is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, Persepolis. During the whole book, Marjane Satrapi is changing. The reader follows her character development. On panel 113 the last frame is illustrative of the contentious aspect of Marjane's relationship with her mother. While most of the book shows a tender and loving
a childhood memoir. The story is about a young Marjane growing up in Iran during the Shah dynasty, Iranian Revolution, and Iran-Iraq war during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Not only did Marjane Satrapi wrote the novel, but she also directed the film about the book. Sadly, the work of a movie-adaptation doesn't always include every details mentioned and sometimes add details not included from the text, which includes Persepolis the movie. The author omitted several events from the movie that happened
Does an author’s perspective affect the presentation of themes in their writing? Yes, Marjane’s perspective affects her presentation of gender roles, nationalism, and revolution in Persepolis. Since Marjane lived through this story, her view affects the presentation of themes in her writing because of her character’s past and present ideas which have been formed by her environment. One of the themes in Persepolis is gender roles. This photo demonstrates the theme of gender roles by the speech bubbles
In the graphic novel Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, the visual details of a young woman’s life growing up in the middle of the Iranian revolution are eloquently portrayed. One of the key motifs of this book is the symbolic veil. As the story progresses and the main character Marjane starts to grow and develop, so does the representation of the veil. When Marjane was younger, the veil was seen as a form of her religious freedom and as she matures it begins to alter into a cage of enslavement
The narrative casts the action as a flashback recollected by Marjane whilst sitting at the airport. I feel it’s an apt location for a film this deepy rooted with the sense of transition whether it be with regard to Iran or Marjane herself, two entities that entwine as they develop in two opposite directions. The feeling of belonging to many places at once and yet none at all is omnipresent
After reading Persepolis (Satrapi, 2003) and watching the film version (Paronnaud, Satrapi & Kennedy, Rigault, Robert, 2007), I was able to see a few differences that I thought were very interesting and respective to their certain formats. There was one main premise that I found to be very different; Marjane’s time in Europe is limited in the film while there is much more detail in the book. This could be due to the different focuses of both mediums; the book strictly sticks to the “coming of age”
Ahmad AL-khuzaei Kelvyn Moran ESL 117 A March 13, 17 Persepolis Response In the story “Persepolis” the creative author Marjane Satrapi in chapter the “The Key” in this chapter I really like what Marjane said in the story about brainwashing guys about fighting in war and going to heaven because this is what we see happening in this day and age. The concept of being a Muslim, dying in war and then going straight to heave for the big reward of women and eternal life has been blinding people for
Every Person in their life goes through change and coming of age. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi Shares her experiences of her childhood in Iran during the regime, revolution and war. Marjane is innocent and young at the beginning of the revolution so she does not understand certain things or their reasoning such as the veil. Events occurring around Marjane and the people expose her to what is really going on in the country. After many learning experiences from her parents, Marjane begins to mature
teenage years until she left for Vienna at the age of fourteen. Persepolis is co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud, and is her first feature film. Vincent Paronnaud - Director Vincent Paronnaud a.k.a. Winshluss, was born in 1970 in La Rochelle. He is a major underground comic book artist. Marc Jousset - Art Director Marc Jousset has
Throughout everyone’s life, they are sure to experience some kind of conflict that dramatically changes their perception of the world. This conflict can be mentally, physically, and emotionally trying, causing the feeling of being lost and alone, unable to control your own life. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi experiences a conflict of faith that sends her spiraling when her uncle Anoosh is arrested and executed. At the beginning of Persepolis, Marjane wanted to be a prophet, following in the footsteps
Today it is very difficult to understand and obey any type of law that forces individuals to change the aspects of how they live. In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi there were many changes in the way people lived during the revolution. The book Persepolis represents Marjane’s early childhood through her eyes. Satrapi explains how difficult it was to change her usual ways and how she got in trouble for expressing her character on things that catered to her likings. It was not just Satrapi who
The book, Persepolis, is a biographical story about of girl named Marjane that lives in Iran. Marjane and the children were marginalized at their school by the Islamic government and by their teachers. Marjane was also raised in an oppressive culture where a group is in position of power who controls the less powerful in cruel and in unfair ways. Also, a lot of women were marginalized after 1979 the Iranian Revolution. Marjane was living and growing up with a family that was a communist family.
Throughout the novel Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, the veil is a powerful tool she exploits in order to provide a metaphorical description of the harsh reality of the lack of freedom she and many other Iranians face in the years following the Islamic revolution. Satrapi uses the veil as a way to show the change of women’s rights throughout the book, a way to show how her independence is a constantly changing entity, and allows her to demonstrate how the new government of Iran changes the freedom
We are told of the injustice that is present around the world everyday. How the government suppresses its people to deny them rights that Americans see as a birthright. It also forces people to question basic human feelings and rituals. Marjane Satrapi depicts this injustice and oppression in her book Persepolis. Living in an unjust society forces people to rethink basic fundamentals such as forgiveness, as seen on pages 53 and 46 of Persepolis. Satrapi’s use of speech bubbles instead of voice overs
“No one heals himself by wounding another” - St.Ambrose. In life, hurting others will never benefit you but will make you be seen as one who brings others down to fit in with the crowd. In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, it goes through the graphic autobiography of a young girl growing up during the Iranian Revolution witnessing violent acts and forcing religious beliefs to happen in her community and if not followed will have v crucial punishments. In the passage I Know Why the Caged Bird