Sunday, March 1, 2009
gabe's persepolis lit. feature hunt week one
on page 40, the third panel, it says "the end of the shah's reign was near." This panel struck me because i couldn't figure out who in the panel was pushing the shah. After looking at the panel above it that talked about the massacres, it told me that it was the ghosts pushing shah out. This metaphor is effective because it exclaims that it wasn't just the people pushing the shah out of Iran, it was the memories or the reaction against the shah that was fueling the revolution. though this metaphor rests on the fact that i cant identify who is pushing the shah.
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Before reading your post, I completely skipped over this panel. Looking closely, I do see that the spirits are pushing the Shah out of Iran, and I agree that this metaphor is effective. This also relates back to the panel Geneva was talking about on page 28. Cyrus the Great's spirit is trapped underneath the Shah's reign, and its interesting to see the motif of spirits come up again.
ReplyDeleteexcellent work here: nice application of literary features and graphic novel specific analysis
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