Subtly, between the pages of memoir and of literary and political criticism, this book deals with the uncertain and uneasy solipsism of the world.
The way in which the totalitarian, theocratic regime seeks to impose its will on the women of Tehran is certainly horrific. Girls are forbidden to have any sort of color in their attire or about their person, as if someone the very existence of color would challenge the monochromatic existence of the regime. All must wear dark-colored robes related to the chador, and similarly dark veils that must cover every strand of hair; they must not wear lipstick or fingernail polish, or even pink socks. This robe makes women almost indistinguishable, a situation heightened by the Islamic prohibition against looking directly at unrelated women; Nafisi imagines that it makes her invisible, "I pretended that when I wore the robe, my whole body disappeared." (Nafisi, 167) in wearing the robe and assuming this costume, the women become converted into actors in their own lives. "These girls... had both a real history and a fabricated one... The regime's definition of them as Muslim women." (Nafisi, 27-28) Throughout the book Nafisi speaks of the way that being so obscured seems to steal away the very existence of women who "do not quite exist, because they leave no trace..." (Nafisi, 19) Women who defy the system are jailed, tortured, or even killed.
The way in which the system seeks to ignore the women's real lives and force them into another, subservient, role is compared metaphorically by Nafisi and her class to the plight of Nabokov's character Lolita. Just as H.H. says of Lolita, "I simply...
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