Practice essay for persepolis love and hate PDF

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Practice text response essay for Persepolis on boundaries between love and hate...

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‘Persepolis’ is as much about hatred as love.’ Do you agree? The graphic novel ‘Persepolis’ written by Marjane Satrapi, depicts the author’s childhood in Iran whilst integrating ideas about the political corruption and class system that is inflicted as a result of the oppressive regime set in place after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Persepolis illustrates the theme of hatred as stronger than love by the many oppressive regimes introduced by Iranian leaders, by the fact that despite trying to show compassion to others it is ultimately hate that is more powerful in Iran. However, the notion of love is shown through the Iranians strong patriotism and love for their country. Hatred is regularly seen through the oppressive regimes inflicted on Iranians by the tyrannical leaders in government. Satrapi shows how the Iranian people were dictated by the oppressive leaders and instructed how to think, behave and conduct themselves. Satrapi spotlights how Iranian women were forced to wear the veil as a part of the regime. In exemplifying how women were made to wear this repressive item to distance their beliefs from westernisation, Satrapi effectively demonstrates the dictatorship that women in specific live under in Iran. Satrapi explained that schools were adapted to be single sex in the introduction of the new Shah. In doing so, Satrapi draws attention to the oppression that was prevalent in the Iranian society as the people of Iran were forced to segregate themselves based on their gender identity. Later in the novel, Marji saw that Ramin's father was part of the secret police service that killed people under the Shah's leadership and her animosity towards him was sparked. Marji demonstrates the hatred that grew from the oppressive regime that forced Ramin’s father to act as a Savak member. Hate is shown to be more pervasive than love in the text as seen through the character’s numerous attempts at love that have been overpowered by the existent hate. Satrapi exemplifies how love is shown throughout the novel but the prevailing hate in the Iranian society revokes this. This is evident in the panel where the Satrapi family's maid wasn't allowed to love the boy next door due to the animosity between social classes as illustrated through Marji’s down turned eyebrows and conflicted facial expressions. Later in the novel, Marji was explicitly upset that her father was not heroic as her classmates’ fathers were, by the reasoning that they had been prisoners of war. Satrapi explained that Marji’s love for her father had diminished in explaining that her own father ‘was not a hero’ and hateful connotations were inflicted on Ebi in doing so. Despite the Iranian's collective love for their country as illustrated in the panel where a mass of Iranians are demonstrating with their fists in the air, “the real Islamic invasion’ had evidently initiated as a result of their ‘own government.’ - The Iranian's were at war with themselves in a sense. = cinema burning P3 assertion: BUT Satrapi demonstrates the love that Iranians have for their country through the revolution. 1. Marjane feels that those who die fighting for Iran are heroes, she identifies her father is not a hero because of this. 2. Marji's mother and father protest in demonstrations for Iran ‘every day’ 3. Marji sneaks off to a protest to fight for her country with her maid...