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Title: Persepolis


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Persepolis
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Graphic Memoir
  • Persepolis is a French-language autobiographical
    comic by Marjane Satrapi depicting her childhood
    up to her early adult years in Iran during and
    after the Islamic revolution. The title is a
    reference to the ancient capital of the Persian
    Empire, Persepolis.

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Authors Purpose
  • Persepolis is an account of demands made without
    understanding of repercussions. A child can only
    see so far into the future, and even then, the
    tendency is for years to be skipped and
    hardships, overlooked. Even when a child knows
    facts about Palestine and Fidel Castro, and reads
    comics entitled 'dialectic materialism',
    intellectualism does not succeed to quell the
    experience of life itself - you have to suffer to
    understand, but you have to learn the hard way to
    understand how it feels. Satrapi, herself, learns
    this lesson in her adolescence.

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Visual Tools
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Use of Patterns
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The Text
  • Based on her own personal experience of the
    Islamic Revolution in Iran, Marjane Satrapi
    introduces us to the effects of cultural change
    through the eyes of a child. The graphic novel
    entitled, Persepolis, is a political, historical,
    and extremely personal account of a girl's growth
    into maturity.

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Background
  • There are some indications that the site of
    Persepolis was already a government's center
    under Cyrus the Great (559-530 BC) and his son
    Cambyses II (530-522 BC), but there are no
    archaeological traces of this older phase. Darius
    'invented' Persepolis as the splendid seat of the
    government of the Achaemenid empire and as its
    center for receptions and festivals. The wealth
    of Persia was to be visible in every aspect of
    its construction. Persepolis was a showcase.

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To the north of the apadana, the Gate of All
Nations also known as Xerxes' Gate
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Alexander in Persia
  • Persepolis was taken by the Macedonian king
    Alexander the Great in the first weeks of 330. He
    destroyed several palace buildings because he was
    not yet sole ruler of the Persian empire, and it
    was too dangerous to leave the enormous treasures
    behind, where his enemies could recapture them.
    The Palace of Xerxes seems to have received a
    special treatment, because it was damaged more
    severely than other buildings it is likely that
    the Greek soldiers in Alexander's company had
    their revenge for the destruction of Athens in
    480 BCE. When Alexander returned several years
    later and saw the ruins, he regretted his act. 

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Drawing by Cornelis de Bruijn, a Dutch
archeologist, who visited site in 1704.
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