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Marine and her family indulged in many of the things that were band in Iran during the Iranian Revolution, such as board games, music, partying, and wine. Also in their physical appearance, they showed there disagreement with the regimes new policy when they revealed strands of their hair through their veil. In Prolepsis, we see Manner’s struggle for independence within a religiously oppressive government and country. Through the text, we can’t avoid the countless examples Marine sights in which women are marginalia and oppressed.
One example is from the characteristic college years where she went to art school and had to draw a woman who posed as a model for their class in traditional Iranian clothes, head to foot. There was absolutely no way to make out her form or to even imagine what was underneath the drapes. Marci and some of her friends got together after school and posed for each other, minus the drapery, and handed in those drawings, which got high marks and later worked as an example of how creativity was not stifled through religious oppression.
Clothing and the veil were major topics throughout the book. By law, women had to wear clothes that covered their entire body and it had to hang loose so that the shape of their body was not seen. One example of Marci finding this law more than annoying was when she was running late for a doctor’s appointment and had to sprint to catch the bus. In general she had a hard time moving around in the traditional clothes but she also got in trouble for inning – because when she ran, her butt moved in an obscene way that caused men to look at her.
You would think that Marci would cave in and begin to follow the rules. Instead she continues to rebel. So much so, that she was sent away by her parents to Germany for her safety. In conclusion, I believe we learn in Prolepsis that feminism, even though it was oppressed, the Satraps family found ways to keep it alive. They managed to ensure that the women in the family had their own voice, identity, and independence.