A Book and a Movie: “Persepolis”

Abstract

The book "Persepolis", prepared as a comic book by Marjane Satrapi and published in Paris in 2002, received the best foreign comic award in the same year. In 1983, 4 years after the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, when she was 14, Satrapi went to Austria to complete her high school education. After living in Vienna for 4 years, she returned to Iran and she completed her higher education in Tehran on visual communication and graphics. This book is written in the form of an autobiography, Satrapi tells about a period of approximately 15-16 years, starting from the time when she was a 9-year-old girl until 1994, when she left Iran at the age of 25. The book consists of four parts. The first part covers the overthrow of the Shah and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the second part, there is the rapidly developing Islamic rule pressure in Iran and how Marjane's school life is affected by this. In the third episode, Marjane decides to continue her high school education abroad with the support of her family and goes to Vienna. In the last episode, she returns to Iran but after graduating from university, she realizes that she can no longer live in Iran and goes to Europe again. First of all, the Islamic Revolution in Iran needs to be closely monitored, analyzed and lessons learned from our perspective. What political oppression, fundamentalism and ideological blindness can cost a whole country is told very strikingly, especially through the eyes of a young girl.

Key Words: Iran Islamic Revolution, Cultur, Fundamentalism