Marjane soon realizes that the amount of success she could possibly have will be determined by how the Iranian government decides to handle the debate of women’s freedom. The revolution took away so much from these women, and especially Marjane who understands that her goals became that much harder and she even says that, at the age that Marie Curie first went to France to study, I’ll probably have ten children. She wants to be the next Marie Curie but she understands that to be a woman in Iran puts you at a severe disadvantage in many ways. She doesn’t want to tend to the home and pump out children for her husband. She wants to be a prophet but she soon realizes that if she continues to go on the way society wants her to, she will never amount to anything other than any other housewife in Iran. This must have been and still is frustrating to these women. Women had to cover their heads, as well as the rest of their bodies, while men were only required to cover their arms and not wear a necktie. For most of the women in the story, (as well as us, the reader) they could recognize that there seemed to be an unfair gender dynamic between men and women. In particular, the use of a veil to cover one’s head became required for all women. Persepolis begins during a time period where women were highly restricted in what they could and could not do.
Gender and its sub concepts play a major role in the story. “Childhood and Adulthood in Iran in “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi”
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