HUMAN 1C Lecture 6: Rahimieh lecture 6 - Humanities Core 9C
Lecture 6
Persepolis:
●People refer to each other as “brother” or “sister”
●The mother sheds tears because she has just been
offended/lack of respect from an Iranian man. But there is
nothing she can do, she is basically powerless because of
the rules of conduct of the time.
●Marji grows up observing how the society and its rules are
changing
●Marji stands up and acts defiantly about the dress of women
versus the dress of men in Islam
●Marji commits an act of injustice as she gets a man
arrested in trying to get attention off herself and her
makeup.
●Grandma gets upset with her, says everyone has a choice,
Marji did not have to call out on an innocent guy
●People in Europe have stereotypes of Iranians; Nuns comment
that they are impolite and have no manners
●Marji opposes the kinds of worldviews she has around her;
she has left Iran and she really isn’t enjoying her life.
●Marji cannot cope with her identity being Iranian, but at
the same time she has an inner voice telling her to be true
to your roots/maintain your own ethical way of living.
○Challenges of being Iranian after revolution that has
produced many stereotypes about Iranian people
●Fereydoun Foroghi was a popular Iranian singer
●Song adaptation
○The wheel of the bike is showing a circular motion,
people have had to fight for their rights before and
now they must do so again
●Song by woman asks; do you remember a time when we were all
united against the government? When we read pamphlets?
○We see memory of all the things that happen and the
stages of how they happened. People are no longer able
to live the euphoric experience of taking part in
protests.
○As children they played Cowboys and Indians, and now
children play games again shooting guns, maybe the
Document Summary
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