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Satrapi's Persepolis

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The first volume of Persepolis (2003) addresses Satrapi’s (2003) childhood struggle of identifying with a traditional religious way of life and her modern parents’ way of living. Tarlo (2007) explains that some of the modern Iranian women transformed to simplistic choices of the fundamentalist woman that discouraged Satrapi (2003) from relating to their identity. Tarlo (2007) believes that Satrapi (2004) portrayed the fundamentalist that stood with the leader Ruhollah Khomeyni in symbols that represents their loss of self-identity. Woman drawn in full coverings and closing eyes is one way Satrapi strips a character from individualism. The full coverings symbolize the loss of human shape and form, while the closing eyes symbolize the fundamentalist …show more content…

The beard symbolized the inability of communication. Lack of communication inhibits men of their ability to have control and power over their family values, thus, this power is shifted towards the government that raise the family in the form of religion. In the first volume, Satrapi drew a self-portrait of her younger self. However, the portrait consists of two side by side panels, revealing only one side of her face in each panel. According to McCloud (1993), observing each panel containing of subject to subject transitions, allows the audience to perceive the whole about the illustration. The first image shows her without the veil and with gears, mechanics and rulers behind her. The second image shows her fully covered in a veil with simple flower like designs, resembling traditional Arabian art. As the reader the closure I perceive is that Satrapi has self-identity problems from the beginning of the Islamic Revolution. The image of her in the modern protestant appearance is clearly influenced by her parents. However is interesting that Satrapi partially identifies as the Islamists following Khomeyni, even though she undoubtedly stands for freedom, feminism and

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