In the second quarter of the memoir, Persepolis, the main character, Marjane, is beginning to lose faith in her religion and wants to start protesting against the Islamic Revolution. She no longer dreams of becoming a prophet. Other revolutions that happened outside of this memoir also caused people to lose faith and/or change their opinions on something.
A revolution is defined as a large-scale, dramatic change. Notable revolutions include the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and, of course, the Islamic Revolution shown in Persepolis. These dramatic changes have altered many people’s ways of thinking. When life changes on such a large scale for you, you are bound to question your way of thinking or your faith. Marjane is no exception to this. As the Islamic Revolution went on before her very eyes, she began to question her faith, just as many people would’ve questioned their ways during the French and American Revolutions.
This connection between revolutions deepens my understanding of Persepolis because I’ve studied other revolutions in my history classes. However, this leads me to question, are the revolutions I’ve studied really the same as the revolution Marjane lived through? I think that they’re the same at their cores, but the key difference lies in the fact that the Islamic Revolution is centered around religion, while the revolutions I know (French, American, Haitian, Russian) are not.
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