Marjane Creates Her Identity Growing Up As An Opposition

Marjane creates her identity growing up as an opposition to authority while still being influenced by the values of her origin. Her contact with Iranian culture and Western Cultures were very similar experiences, considering both attempted to restrict her free will. She was raised to rebel which was only literally reinforced considering her parents were a part of the rebellion. While living in her native country, she seems to always find herself in some type of trouble because of the way she challenges authority and normal social constructs. Her parents send her to school in Austria because they fear that her inherent need to question authority in any situation she is in would get into major trouble or even killed. But this need to†¦show more content†¦Even though when Marjane is sent to Austria she attends a religious school, where education is used to train prejudice and propaganda, it is important because of what it demonstrates to Marjane. Mainly because she had previous ly attended a nonreligious school beforehand, Marjane was presented with the opportunity to be taught from both perspectives of education and given the ability to question what she had learned in both places. Marjane gains a specific observational skill that lets her notice hypocrisy when those who surround her are too biased by their religion or politics. Once again, her father was a big influencer in the rebellious attitude that was implemented through education. He explained to Marjane that the Shah was not chosen by God and that this was just a ploy to overthrow the government. He hated the Shah because he wasn’t educated or literate and he wanted his daughter to be the opposite. He resented the Shah and anyone who used religion to legitimize their power, which could have played into Marjane’s disdain for authority at her religious school later on. The school that Marjane attends in Austria was intended to be different for her, assumingly by her parents who wanted her to be safer, but it was still led by authoritarians who used religion as power. She could not stand thatShow MoreRelated Marjane Satrapis Persepolis3668 Words   |  15 Pages19).Such abrupt uprooting of a citizens identity and physical connection to their homeland leads to a conflicting sense of identity and belonging in individuals who are involved in the sudden transition. As a member of the Iranian diaspora, Marjane Satrapi endured many hardships in her efforts to transition from Middle Eastern culture to a more modernist Western culture. Her series of graphic novel memoirs, Persepolis, depict her childhood growing up in Iran during both the Islamic Revolution