9/25/2023 0 Comments Persepolis bd transcript franais![]() ![]() The Iraqis now use ballistic missiles against Tehran, which are very destructive, and one day the Satrapis' Jewish neighbors’ home gets destroyed, though at first Marjane thought that her own house was hit. When Marjane’s parents sneak in Western items for Marjane-like posters and sneakers-after their trip to Turkey, two members of the women’s branch of the Guardians of the Revolution nearly arrest Marjane. Marjane and her family see this as a despicable lie, particularly because it is only told to poor people.ĭuring the War, the country’s policing of its people becomes more stringent, and the Satrapis' forbidden wine supply-as people still hold parties as an attempt at normalcy-nearly gets found out. They are given plastic keys painted gold as a symbol of the easy entry one enjoys into paradise after dying for the nation. The new war brings many refugees from southern Iran up north to Tehran and many young boys are enlisted into the army. This is a moment of great nationalism for Marjane, as she desperately wants Iran to defeat its enemy, but as the war goes on she begins to realize the cost of war, heroism, and of so-called martyrdom – something the government regime valorizes – when her friend Paradisse’s father, a fighter pilot, dies while bombing Baghdad. Soon after that, the Iraq-Iran War breaks out. Soon after, Marjane’s mother gets harassed by men for not wearing her veil, and Marjane and her family go out on their last demonstration against the veil, which turns extremely violent. Many of Marjane’s family and friends leave the country, but the Satrapis decide to stay in Iran for economic reasons. This is the point at which Marjane rejects God. Anoosh gets arrested, and Marjane is allowed to see him just once before his execution. Unfortunately, soon afterwards, with the new radicalization of the country under the hardline government, the former political prisoners that were released become targets again, and Mohsen gets assassinated, though Siamak manages to sneak out of the country. Marjane considers him a hero, and he hands her a bread swan he made while in prison. However, when he came back to Iran, his disguise was not good enough to keep him out of jail, and there he experienced much degradation. However, she is enthralled when she meets her uncle Anoosh, who fled Iran to the USSR so that he would not be arrested for his activities against the Shah. Thinking of these two men as heroes, Marjane remains disappointed that her own father is not a hero, and that no one in her family is one, either. They speak of the tortures they experienced and the deaths they witnessed. She also begins to understand that different social classes exist, and that this is one root of much tension and suffering in the country.Īfter the Revolution comes to an end and the Shah is ousted, many political prisoners find themselves released from prison, including Siamak and Mohsen, both Revolutionaries who have been in prison for years. Her own grandfather was a Persian Prince who was often imprisoned and tortured under the rules of the Shah. Forced to grow up quickly, Marjane begins to learn about the history of Iran and the many invaders and rulers it has had over its centuries’ long history. Marjane’s parents, however, are modern and secular in outlook though they supported the Revolution again the Shah, who was a despotic ruler, they are alarmed and dismayed at the fundamentalist turn of the new Islamic Republic. ![]() Further, the regime forces all women and girls to wear veils. Marjane Satrapi describes how she used to attend a French co-educational and non-religious school, but how this is outlawed because the Islamic Republic distrusts and rallies against all Western influences. Persepolis opens right after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which results in the downfall of the American-backed dictator known as the Shah of Iran and leads to the rise of the religious hardliners who establish the oppressive Islamic Republic. ![]()
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