Dehumanization In Persepolis

Have you ever became oppressed by your own people, losing your freedom and dignity? Some people in a way or another had experienced violence and destruction in their society just like the book Persepolis. Dehumanization is a cruel way of making people follow a particular way of life rather than how they are living. Throughout human history, we come to a point where violence and destructions occur to make a group of people change themselves in order to survive. to keep order and authority anyone can create violence and destructions to make people change their mindset to survive.

. In the book, the corrupt government and their power hungry fundamentalists instill fear creates an environment that proves to be chaotic for the people of Iran including Marji’s childhood.

She believes there is always an alternate way to avoid war rather than losing innocent lives in the name of justice. Throughout the book, Marji goes through internal conflict that clouds her judgment for what is right or wrong. As it states, “It was awful. But this was not the moment to give in. With this first cigarette, I kissed my childhood, goodbye. Now I was a grown-up”(117). This portrays Marji’s loss of innocence as she goes through internal conflict with herself whether to smoke the cigarette because she knows smoking the cigarette is fatal for your health and it can kill you slowly if u smoked enough of it. However, the reason behind taking this action wasn't to write her own death sentence. She wanted to put thought going against her mom would put her in the same position as the rest of Iran rebelling against the Islamic regime.