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1. Works of Protest
2. Both texts can be considered to be works of protest due to the fact that specific choices in terms of setting, symbols and portrayal of characters are used to criticize their historical context,
3. Author criticizes the Islamic Revolution
4. Fundamentalist officers, politicians and teachers are all drawn very similarly

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1)Works of protest
c3)The presence of T. J Eckleburgs sign corrroborates this criticism as it represents God watching upon the people who failed, and have no opportunity to the American dream.
4)"The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose"

"This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air."

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1) To what extent could at least two works you have studied be considered works of protest?

2) In both novels, the work of protest is reoresented in different ways. Gatsby focuses on the criticism of social classes, meanwhile in Persepolis criticises the government rules about Religion.

3) The Great Gatsby criticises through the characters the American Dream.
A) Daisy: "I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
B) Nick: "They're such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her muffled in the folds. It makes me sad because I've never seen such beautiful shirts."
C) Nick: "I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. [...] Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second cousin once removed, and I'd known Tom in college. And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago."
D) Daisy: They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such---such beautiful shirts before' "

4) A) Myrtle -> ambition
-> materialism: dog, dresses ("It's just a crazy old thing [that] I slip on sometimes." Her voice adopts a "high mincing shout" as she talks and she adopts an "impressive hauteur" as she complains about her husband George who is "not fit to lick my shoe.")
-> failure of the American Dream
-> Valley of Ashes: failure of the american dream (grey). The Valley of Ashes resembles something dark and lifeless. As a result of fire ashes stand for destruction and death. Furthermore the death of Myrtle Wilson in the Valley of Ashes stands for the pain associated with this valley. Also the fact that the Wilsons live in the valley shows that they are not of such high social standards as the other characters in the novel. (Decadence)
-> becomes the mistress of the affluent Tom Buchanan
B) *green light -> money (dollar) symbolism of color
*yellow car -> fake gold "gold"
*white dresses (Daisy) -> innocence (ironic)

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Firstly i would like to work on the stylistic devices i used through my paper 2. Also work on my language and knowledge about the two novels in order to make a further caparative piece
1.works of protest
2. Both novels despite context are coincidered works of protest, as both authors critize and show their social reality. In decadence of the 1920's in the case of Gatsby, and the oppression lived in Iran beacuse of the Iranian refolution in Persepolis, which are show through thir respective characters and settings.
3. Valley of ashes reflects the decadence of the context (1920's) in Gatsby
4. "Wheat grew like ashes"
"Cruel body"
Her voice was full of money"
5. Veil symbol
"Im an westerner in Irian and Iranian in the west
Mirror symbol
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1. How have writers used aracterisation to explore a social concern?
3. The character of Gatsby is used to explore and expose the issue of artifice present in 1920s American Society due to the importance given to social class.
4. -"If you were to remove one book the whole library woul collapse"
-"Old Sport"
-"James Gatz" vs "Jay Gatsby"
5.- Symbolism of the library: Represents Gatsby's façade and how it would be destroyed if one person were to find out about his past.
- Repettition of the phrase "Old Sport": Makes it sound contrived and shows that he is trying to be someone who he really is not. He does it in order to appear more educated and thus be accepted amongst Old Money
- His yellow car: Considered fake gold and reinforces the idea that everything he has supports his façade.
6. He does so in order to be socially accepted and respected, as people who were considered "New Money" were less honourable than those who were "Old Money". This façade is the only thing that will allow Gatsby to win back Daisy.

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1. Pursuit of happiness.
2. Explores how the pursuit of happiness can be achieved.

3. Valley oashes as the failure of the American Dream, people who fail in the pursuit of happiness
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"Wheat grow like ashes"

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1. How have writers used characterization to explore a social concern?
2. In a given society, social practices and attitudes which are not functional are uncovered through characters who behave in a way that conforms to them.
3. Through the characterization of Desdemona as a completely submissive and innocent woman, a concern in relation to the female gender role in Elizabethan times is seen.
4. - "My lord"
- "I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education"
- "Upon my knee"
5. - Repetition of the word "lord" to show respect and devotion
- metaphor through the words "life" and "school" of the obligation women were supposed to have towed their father
- The "knee" position is symbolic the inferiority women were placed in
6. In Elizabethan times women were supposed to be completely obedient towards their father and husband and that women were always inferior.

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1).Persuit of happiness
2.) The pursuit of happiness is represented as an ideal of freedom.
3.)
-Freedom is represented through;    . Symbolism
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1. I did the context question
2. Both authors use narrative voices and characterization in order to reflect their opinion on each social context.
3. The characterization of Daisy shows a superficial being which contrast the person who she really is and who she looks like, this suggests the artificial society in America during the Jazz Age.
4. "That's te best thing you can be, a beatiful little fool" "I have never seen such beautiful shirts" "her voice was full of money"
5. Contrast

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SOCIAL CONCERNS
1. Religion vs Modern (voice)
-> God abandons Marji before her parents leave for the revolution
-> she is scared and concerned in the image, in bed, crying
2. Decadence (characterization)
“I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”-Diasy

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1. How writers used narrative voice and/or characterisation to explore a social or intellectual concern in at least  works you have studied?

2. F. Scott Fitzgerald create characters that represent a social group or concern and it is through the characterization attempt to criticize social issues such as oppression, gender roles, social expectations, artifice and the constant search of identity.

3. The characterization of Jay Gatsby is used in order to criticize the artifice, social expectations and decadence of the 1920s American society.

4.

a) "The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself."

b) "He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse."

5.

a) The fact that his name isn't his real name shows the magnitude of his lies. The name of his persona is short, easy to remember (memorable) and elegant.

b) His library is a metaphor of Gatsby's fake life. Owl eyes says that he thought books were fake and that if you took one book out of the shelf everything will fall apart meaning that if someone destroys, discovers or goes against Gatsby's persona his whole life will be destroyed (and in the end it was).

c)  Gatsby's parties fulfill social expectations. The parties reinforce the importance of Gatsby wanting to fit in and most important wanting to present himself as a man with enough money to have and host a party every week hoping that some day Daisy will go and be amazed by his lifestyle.

6. Link to context: Gatsby creates a persona to achieve the glorified idea of the American Dream. He wanted to fulfill the  social expectations of the American society in the 1920s: have money and love in order to succeed. Hence, when he doesn't get Daisy's love his failure is represented in his own death.

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2.) Both novels are able to portray the values and beliefs of the context and the place they were written in thanks to the way their principal characters interact with their environment both socially and culturally

3.) Satrapi uses Marjane's characterization in order to explore  and and explain the social expectations, the alienation and  the opression felt by the Iranian society and more specifically by the Iranian What woman.

4.)"I was a western iranian an a iranian in the west I had no Identity"

"Where is my freedom of speech?

Where is my freedom of thought?

My life, is it livable?

What's going on in the political prisons?"

"I was a married woman, I have conformed to society"

5.) Stylisitic features:
Social expectations of woman in Iran where established in the moment when Marjane gets marries. When this happens, the author creates a pannel in which the main character is shwon as if she was in prison. This ia clear example of the use of a visual metaphor that portrays Marjane's face with enanaras that suggest she was either suffering from desperation or worried about the fact she finally accepted what her society was expecting from her.

The use of a black background in several panels through the graphic novel, allows the author to reinforce the ideas of alienation as well as the feeling of loss of identity. In the panel before Marjane has a suiciede attempt there is a white silhouette drawn over a black background. This color contrast create a mood of tension that may foreshadow the future of the main character