Persepolis And Women Will Keep The Household Analysis

Persepolis and Women Will Keep the Household

For my fiction research I chose to do Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi to study the differences in gender roles as well as government politics. The main purpose of this fiction is to gain a better understanding of how Satrapi’s style of writing reflects the inequality that arose during the Islamic Revolution through graphic narrative. In contrast to my ethnography, Women will keep the household by Esara Pilapa; the main purpose of her study is to comprehend the transition of Thailand women from migrant daughters to migrant householders and how marriage tensions arise from changes in gender roles. While both the fiction and ethnography focus on two different countries, they both explore the inequalities in gender roles. However, whereas Persepolis illustrates Satrapi’s protest against gender roles and cultural inequalities under the Islamic Revolution through imagery, Women will keep the household demonstrates how the transition to marriage impacts decision making and gender role positions through interviews.

1. Persepolis

The markers of cultural difference that I have analyzed in book Persepolis are Gender Roles and government politics. Persepolis is a story by Marjane Satrapi, a young girl who grew up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. During this time period, many cultural and social inequalities took place. Satrapi communicates the story of her life in Tehran from ages’ six to ten during the conquest of the Shah’s regime. “She also discusses the shocking effects that took place during the war with Iraq throughout the Islamic revolution” (History of Iran). Persepolis conveys a unique graphic style of Satrapi’s narrative. “In black and white, Satrapi represents her own child...

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...n differentiate from other Asian countries. Overall, I thought the comparative method was a good way to view the culture of a particular part of the world as a whole.

In conclusion, Satrapi and Pilapa’s works come from two entirely different countries at different time periods while they both communicate the topic on gender roles through distinct methods. However, both the fiction and ethnography work from these authors, are similar in that they both use argumentative approaches to raise a point. Nevertheless, both works focus on gender roles and how changes within a society in gender role positions continue to be a big part of country’s culture. Nonetheless, both Satrapi and Pilapa were able to get across the differences between gender roles through two distinct methods thus allowing a whole audience to understand these cultures and why they behave in certain ways.