Visualizing Iran Through Satrapi's Persepolis

Although visualizing Iran is controversial, most Westerners, especially Americans, share a common view on Iranian countries known for terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism. In today's media, Iran has been condemned to possess nuclear weapons and various politicians refer to the contribution to ongoing violence in Iraq. The information we absorb everyday from news coverage enhances our prejudice and enhances our negative view of the country of Iran.

Women's oppression of Marjane Satrapi's "Persian Persepolis" written by Margare Atwood's "The Story of the Maid" and Marjane Satrapi is a memoir of a small girl raised in Iran. In contrast, she refers to the secular era before the revolution, the repressive character of the women's fundamentalist government. Her work is very similar to Margaret Atwood's "Maid's Story". His protagonist Alfred reflects her earlier freedom of life and values ​​her earlier name.

The autobiography of experience as Satrapy's young girl during the Islamic Revolution of Iran was surprisingly simple and not simple. Like MAUS, Persepolis draws a complex historical era through human eyes and through its symbolic visual effects, readers can acquire powerful emotions and events of the age. Spiegelman received the MAUS Pulitzer award, which won a special citation and award in 1992. This is the first (and far) graphic novelist. I teach with my students, but from the excerpt of MAUS II, the teacher can use these two in various ways. MAUS II has a more post-modern side, and Spiegelman associates his father's experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp more directly with the text. Other sources of information on MAUS are as follows.

Persepolis (2003) by Marjane Satrapi tried to document the political situation that brought the present Iranian regime accurately, but Persepolis did not make neutral remarks. Through various subjective reactions including children's Marzi and Marjang, adults, Persepolis all explain the legitimacy of Iranian totalitarian regime and criticize