Literary Themes In 'Persepolis' By Marjane Satrapi

With all literature, the role of the writer’s voice carries throughout to induce an emotion, so that as the reader a connection can be made. With some writers, it is easier to transmit these emotions through visual cues that give the reader another sense of depth. With the writer of Persepolis taking advantage of this assistance of images Marjane Satrapi can add another level to the meaning she is trying to get across. With this addition to the imagery of this graphic novel “name” can infuse more emotions. While she adds imagery to her novel, she adds another sense that there is a misunderstanding between the youth and what is occurring in her story. This demonstrates that there is a misinterpretation of specific information due to their lack

In some circumstances her scenes are made based more on what has been to allow for her text to be understood in many literary modes. With writing, writers tend to rely on their choice of vocabulary to create a film in the reader’s mind, but then again with Satrapi’s novel “Persepolis” it allows for the opposite to be done where her writing comes second to the images that she creates. On page 11 of “Persepolis” Satrapi illustrates a story her father told her that is very heavy on the imagery, which allows for the imagery to be accompanied by there text. This example illustrates the importance of her visual reinforce the times that she is living in. This sense that the pictures are more important than the words Satrapi has chosen, introduces the fact that the society that is around today finds more importance in evaluating texts through the way a novel moves you. With this change images are being used more in the foreground than in the

“Persepolis” not just being novel but a graphic book allows for her message to be more predominantly viewed rather it be interpreted many ways. By this it occurs to some that with the images it allows for her references, her metaphors, and even her realities to be clearly comprehended by all. Certain messages Satrapi demonstrates gain intensity because of the visual component that it adds. Some of these moments include page 76 block number 5 that depicts a mob fighting with women who do are not obedient to the mob’s cause, another includes page 51 block 4 where she is displaying how a family friend got the worst torture of them all, and finally on page 153 the last seen where Marjane turns around to see her father holding her dead mother. Each one of these scenes induces an emotion that would not have been as moving had it been illustrate just through text. These visual aspects are what make this graphic novel an important member of the literary world since it induces more emotion in one chapter than some novels dues in their entirety due to the use of