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Part 3 (coming of age (Marji - youthful memoir, loses God after death of…
Part 3
coming of age
Marji - youthful memoir, loses God after death of uncle Anoosh
Willing to grow up, becomes mature and responsible -> independence
Antigone - refuses to grow up - does not want the complicated and compromising life of adulthood offered by and epitomised by Creon
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Offred - not coming of age but a revelation of who she has become - seen through the slowly revealed history of her memories.
Gilead - the birth and coming into being of this oppresive society
oppression and rebellion
repressive governments - Shah, Islamic regime, Creon, Gilead
Protagonists rebel - Marji protests, Antigone attempts to bury brother, Offred escapes.
other characters rebel - Marji's parents, Haemon and Ismene, Commander, Wife, Moira, Offglen
religion
Persepolis - Marji as a prophet, Antigone and Creon completely dismiss religion as fake, Gilead is a Theocracy
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Power
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Offred's helplessness - and victim to power of Aunts, Commander, Angels
Pragmatism vs Idealism
Antigone
Creon is the main adult throughout the play; takes a realist and practical approach -> he is a working man
Antigone is the heroine, willing to die for her ideals -> ideals are first considered honourable, until the ugly truth is revealed
Despite this, she continues her wish to die; for fear that adulthood will strip away the beauty and simplicity of the childhood world that she loves
Suggests that Anouilh is communicating the idea that with age, ideals are lost and abandoned.
Persepolis
Young Marji; idealistic, innocent, comical and naive -> devoted to God, wish to rebel against the Shah, imagines herself as Che Guevara
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Marji's parents are practical ideals -> fight for an end to the Shah's rule, yet are able to recognize the dangers of fighting -> taking certain precautions
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