Would it be accurate to say that The Citadel and the Islamic Republic only tolerate identities of a vertical kind?
If so, what effects follow from the systematic abuse of many of the cadets at the school, as well as the oppression
of the Iranian women by the totalitarian regime they are governed by?
How might the horizonal identities formed by the cadets and the women in Nafisi’s reading group enable them to
resist the vertical identities forced upon them as well as choose who they want to be?
