Definition of freedom in text. However, this is clearly not the definition of freedom in society

Resisting Culture to be "Free"

The little Chinese seamstress running away from home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Mo07FcKrs (screenshot)

Culture Conflicting with Gender

              
Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007: 78-79. Print.

Cultural Revolution causes mandatory dress codes; different for men and women. 

Conflict of Culture in Interest of Love

"'If he intends to ask for your hand, tell him not to bother. He'll be wasting his time and mine too. You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die.'"

Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate. Trans. Christensen, Carol. Christensen, Thomas. New York: Anchor Books, 1995: 10. Print.

Conflict of Love Because of Social Class

"Lisette: A waiting-room soldier. Are you telling me you are not Dorante?
Arelequin: He is my captain.
Lisette: Louse! Vermin!...
Arelequin: The maid of Madam?
Lisette: She is my captain, so to speak.
Arelequin: Hypocrite! Impostor!"
Marivaux, Pierre. “The Game of Love and Chance.” New York: Penguin, 1980: 3-6. 359-360. Print.

Love Regardless of Social Class

"Dorante: Ah, my dear Lisette, what do I hear? Your words have such passion. They make me feel aglow. I love you, I respect you. There is no degree, no birth, no fortune that does not wither away before your love. I should be ashamed if I let the pride of my position fight against you. My heart and my hand are both yours."
Marivaux, Pierre. “The Game of Love and Chance.” New York: Penguin, 1980: 3-8. 364. Print.

Social Imitation for Love

Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007: 40-41. Print.

Social Class Imitation

Lydia practicing her role of Lisette in "L'esquive"

Censorship: Banning of Books

"For several years it was these text books and Mao's  'Little Red Book' that constituted our only source of intellectual knowledge. All other books were forbidden."
Sijie, Dai. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Trans. Ina Rilke. New York: Anchor Books, 2002: 8. Print.

Censorship: Burning of Books

"Firefighter" burning books in Fahrenheit 451.

Persepolis: Cultural Revolution

Satrapi, Marjane. The Complete Persepolis. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007: 8. Print.

Chinese/Cultural Revolution

"A few words about re-education: towards the end of 1968, the Great Helmsman of China's Revolution, Chairman Mao, launched a campaign that would leave the country profoundly altered. The universities were closed and all the 'young intellectuals,' meaning boys and girls who had graduated from high school, were sent to the countryside to be 're-educated by the poor peasants.'... Between the ages of twelve and fourteen we had been obliged to wait for the Cultural Revolution to calm down before the school reopened. And when we were finally able to enroll we were in for a bitter disappointment: mathematics had been scrapped from the curriculum, as had physics and chemistry."
Sijie, Dai. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Trans. Ina Rilke. New York: Anchor Books, 2002. Print. Pages 6-7.