Poem in relationship to Persepolis[FION]

I have chosen the poem called "Much Madness is divinest Sense" by Emily Dickinson and relate this to Persepolis.

Much Madness is divinest Sense-
To a discerning Eye-
Much Sense-the starkest Madness-
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail-
Assent- and you are sane-
Demur- you’re straightway dangerous-
And handled with a Chain-

To begin this, I will talk about the poem itself first.

To understand this poem better, we need to know the reason for Emily Dickinson to write this poem. Dickinson spent most of her life time in her birth place, Amherst, Massachusetts. It was known that she had "a dictatorial husband and a tyrannical father." Since she didn't make contact with the outside world, much of her knowledge of the outside world comes from the books she read. For a year, Dickinson was sent to a school called South Hadley Female Academy; however, because she didnt' adapt to the new environment and the strictly religious atmosphere, she returned home, and gradually step away from social activities. After a few more years, she started to confine herself in her father's house and didnt' leave that house even until her death in 1886.

No one exactly know when this poem was written, but it was guess that "Much Madness is divinest Sense"was written in 1862. This was during the nineteenth century which woman had many limitations. Many believed that this poem "demonstrates an anger and battle against the limits imposed by the authoritarian male upon the nineteenth century intellectual female."

Relationships.
“Much Madness is Divinest Sense- / To a discerning Eye-." From these two lines, I think, Dickinson is not only rebelling against the men who make the rules which lessens the status of women in the society, but also against the women who blindly accepted them. Just like in Persepolis where every woman needs to wear a veil, although obviously, it is an unfair rule to women, most of them obeyed to it. Like what Dickinson was referring to, society was "madness" however some women sees it as "divines sense" because they dont' have "discerning eyes."

‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail-

Notice that Emily Dickinson capitalized "Majority" and "All," maybe she is trying to put it as a remider that "majority" and "all" didn't truely had the power. Therefore "Majority" and "All" in this case, only applies to men "as All, prevail." This was the society Marjane was in, where men had all the power.

Assent- and you are sane-(1
Demur- you’re straightway dangerous-(2
And handled with a Chain-(3

1) If you agreed with the "Marjority" you'll be fine.
2)If you disagreed with the "Marjority" then you'll be dangerous even if you are right.
3)When you disagreed, you have to face the consequences.

This was Iran.

One day at school, the teacher said that since Islamic republic was found, they no longer have political prisoners. Marjane corrected her teacher by saying that islamic regime does ordered execution and she gave the example of Anoosh which infuriated the teacher. At last she got kicked out of the school: reason being is that she told the truth.