Marjane
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Meg's Persepolis Week One- Snippets
I believe there is a reoccuring motif in Persepolis... hair. It might sound strange, and we haven't analysed all of Persepolis as a class, however it begins on pg.5. Her mother dyes her hair to avoid being recognized. Next, on pg. 12, all the revolutionaries have unibrows. Pg. 13, Marx and God both have thick, full beards, one curly and one more straight. Then later in the graphic novel, Marji eventually fluctuates between long and short hair. This idea of hair might come up again, and I will talk about it more when I learn more.
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cool- run with this idea and see where it takes you.
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ReplyDeletethink that this is a great motif. I think that the reason hair is such a big deal in the book is because of the politics and the way the society worked. Remember when Maji shaved herself? I think that this action represented freedom for Marji, because she was getting rid of her identity and changing herself into someone else. A better Marji (from her point of view)But what about from ours? As well when she cuts her hair, she looks different...happier maybe?
ReplyDeleteI will need to think about this motif as well because it needs some clearification.
-Denitza
I agree, hair is definately a vital part of Iranian society. It is also seen as an important part of our discussions of minorities. Especially because women are forced to wear the veil [which hides their hair because "women's hair got men excited" (Satrapi, 75)]. Hair is just a vital historically important portion of their lives. Hair may possibly represent manliness?
ReplyDeleteThat serves as a purpose for Marji to reform her external self (by shaving, plucking and waxing) because she wants to be more of a feminine individual (out of lonliness, and yearning for acceptence).
-Geneva
The fact that all the revolutionaries have unibrows are very interesting to me. I have heard somewhere that a person with a unibrow is very narrow-minded. A superstition, of course, but maybe Marjane knew of it, too. I think the revolutionaries fit the unibrowed-people-profile, because they really only focus on one goal: which is obviously the revolution.
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