Persepolis Gender Analysis

We are all the result of out time and culture. We come into this world ignorant and malleable; our minds start off as blank slates. Opinions, ideas, feelings, emotions, and convictions are all the result of environment. True objectivity is an illusion; we all carry the biases of what we have been exposed to. In the case of Persepolis, the protagonist Marjane Satrapi carries the biases of a young girl living in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane has a very distinct point of view in terms of class, politics, and gender. Class has, and will always be, one most important factors in regard to the molding of our personal views. In Persepolis, Marjane belongs to, and carries the biases of the upper class. She view the revolution through the

Being a young girl during the Islamic Revolution must have been extremely confusing and even frightening. Marjane was forced to veil and was segregated from the boys at school. Despite her revolutionary ideas, a theocratic Iran probably was not what she had in mind. Her desire to be a “liberated woman” did not mesh with the policies of the new Iran. Gender is something that we are stuck with. Unlike class which sometimes changes, and political views which can be molded, gender is intrinsic. Marjane did not choose to be a young women in an oppressive environment, but her opinions were certainly molded by it. If she were a boy, she might not take such issue with the veil or segregation. Perhaps the inequality she was subject to contributed to her revolutionary spirit. Class, politics, and gender were all very influential in terms of shaping Marjane Satrapi’s point of view in Persepolis and her recount of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Obviously the revolution in Iran impacted the lives of millions, and Marjane’s account only provides one point of view, a point of view with its own biases. It is important to that Persepolis is a subjective