Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel “Persepolis” is a fascinating autobiography centered on her childhood and adolescence during the Iranian Revolution. As a young girl, Marji (Marjane Satrapi) recollects her understandings during a time of political and religious warfare, which enables the reader to benefit and absorb knowledge through her personal experiences. Due to the wisdom imparted on Marji by her family and life experiences that she endured, as well as those reported by family members, she acquired an appreciation for the importance of history and therefore essentially embraced the need to retell history, which is exhibited powerfully throughout the book.

Although it seems evident, history assists in shaping our future. Throughout time,

This is made apparent in Chapter One, where Marji informs us that from the age of six, she’s been convinced that she was the last prophet. Additionally, Marji also displays her activist spirit that she, no doubt, inherited from her parents. Marji’s responsive nature allowed her to recognize the injustice that took place in the world that she lived in and even more importantly use that insight to deliver a book which captures all of the discrimination, class conflict, violence, uncertainty, oppression, rebellion, and religious struggles of that time. Although, the entire book is based on her recollection of life in Iran, Satrapi is effective at subtly introducing historical facts. For instance, there is a moment when she envisions talking with the prophet that had come before her, and they question a woman being a prophet, this internal conversation was representative of the limitations placed on Iranian women. During the book she eludes to the fact that women were treated as second class citizens and men disrespected them at will if they were not fully covered as expected by the Islamic