William Moulton Marston Wonder Woman

Throughout comic book series publication the recurring theme of female suppression is prevalent in the Wonder Woman comic book series, there are several panels of wonder woman straining against the bindings of society. The Golden Age (1930’s -1940’s) women were portrayed as damsels in distress, in almost every comic book cover a lady is tied up with a man trying to save her. Facebook’s group created a page which focuses on the portrayal of women in comics, the site summarizes women in the Golden Age as career-oriented girls. Comic book characters as Nellie the

The Wonder Woman character went through different changes from different authors who kept creating her journey. In the beginning Wonder Woman was written by William Marston but after his death in 1947, the Wonder Woman went through a change due to a different writer taking over. As Steinem states, “She became sexier-looking and more submissive, violent episodes increased, more of her adversaries were female, and Wonder Woman herself required more help from men in order to triumph.” (271) This change made Wonder Woman a different character than what readers fell in love with in the beginning. As

She does not have a strong power of gender because she’s a female. “Looked like she didn’t have nobody to help her”(Eichler E) Tom Robinson felt sorry for her because no one helped her in the her house. She is the only female lives in the house so no one helped her.

There are many ways someone can be considered powerful. If they are ‘above’ another race, they can be considered racially powerful. If they can use their gender in an act of getting what they want, they are powerful, with regard to their gender. Another way someone can be powerful is class power, class means a set or category of things having some property or attribute in common and differentiated from others by kind, type, and or quantity. This is when the person uses their class in a way for others to feel bad for them, tricking them into getting what they want. Mayella Ewell from Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird is a young girl that wrongfully says that a black man, Tom Robinson, raped her. She uses her power to make the court and many others to believe that Tom did that to her, but he really did not. He is convicted and soon is murdered in jail, for trying to escape. Because of her power, she is able to put Tom in jail, even though he is innocent. Mayella Ewell is powerful because she is able to manipulate others into believing what she says.

Truth is a “true or an actual state of matter”. In all these three novels that I chose, hiding the truth is harmful, but it’s easier to just hide the truth for some characters. Although it’s easy to hide the truth, there’s a lot of weight, one have to carry as the truth is hidden. Telling the truth can also be dangerous for other character is these novels. Yet, no matter how long it takes or how dangerous it is to tell the truth, we can see that it always finds it’s way out in Othello, The Scarlet Letter, and Fahrenheit 451.

Girl power is the idea that women and girls should be confident, make decisions, and achieve many important things on their own. When power, the ability to influence the world through independence and intelligence, is mixed with the word girl it usually means that girls can do anything they put their minds and hearts into. Basically, the term ‘girl power’ means that girls can make powerful decisions, speak their minds, be heard, and make a difference around the world. Clara Barton, Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart are three excellent examples of girl power.

Truth states, “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!” (Truth). Another aspect of her opinion is, enslaved women are looked away upon their right to make a difference in the

It should be noted that Marston had been considered as a feminist. He found that world would be been more peaceful if female values were cherished and if men were willing to accept women as equals . The creation of Wonder Woman was to counter what Marston perceived as an overly masculine-dominated world . She served as a role model for not only little girls but for adults as well. According to DiPaolo’s book, War, Politics and Superheroes:

An origin story of Diana, an Amazon princess who later on becomes one of the greatest women superhero name “Wonder Woman”. As a young girl, Diana lives under the protection of the Amazons on an isolated island called Themyscira with no interference with the outside world of mankind. When a pilot name Captain Steve crash-lands on the island, Diana who was curious about his arrival saved him. Everything changes when Steve reveals the news of the destruction of World War 1 happening in the 1918 of London outside the peaceful island. Diana decided to leave the only life she’s ever known to go with Captain Steve in order to end the war she thinks is caused by the God of War Ares. There in the world of mankind, she discovers the dark secrets of her

This text connects to my focus because Wonder Woman is supposed to be seen as a feminist icon. Wonder Woman became smitten of Superman, but he only considers her a companion and is unaware of her love for him. Wonder Woman is also captured and then used as bait. These examples show how Wonder Woman is taken advantage of because she is a woman.

A film recently released in 2017, Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins, is based off of the original story written by a professor and psychologist, William Moulton Marston in 1941. This story explores Diana, the weapon of Themyscira who goes against what her mother forbids to help change the world, but at the same time, discovers personal growth. The distinctive underlying themes of symbolic as well as physical journey, emergence from innocence and the defining of one’s own rules, Wonder Woman transcends from being a typical super hero saga to that of a coming-of-age story. In the film Wonder Woman, Diana experiences a myriad of trials of both body and mind, providing many different forms of growth, outlining her coming-of-age story.

On the other hand others have argued the film portrays her as a dominant strong fighter: “Wonder Woman isn’t

To some, wonder woman is regarded as a feminist icon. However, O’Reilly does not believe so because of the submissive themes that her creator included in the comics.

“Wonder Woman is a walking- and sometimes flying- paradox of attributions and images. She is, at once, a female sex symbol and feminist icon: physically vulnerable, morally virtuous, financially independent, self-determining, and, in tune with her womanly ways, self-sacrificing” (Wright 6). Wonder Woman was created by William Marston in order to show and achieve women empowerment. At the time that Wonder Woman was assembled, there were no women superheroes. The only superheroes that were created at the time were powerful, strong, fully-clothed, white, males. Even though Wonder Woman is just as powerful and important as other male superheroes, she is often easily centered out from other superheroes because of her physique, lack of clothes,

In the beginning of comics, it was male-dominated and that didn’t seem like it was going to change, until Wonder Woman came along, and this fact alone makes her a massive emblem of female empowerment in the world. She was still written by a man, but it was a start of a whole new era. Wonder Woman’s story begins on an island of all women who called themselves The Amazons. The queen of The Amazons wanted a child and her tribe told her to make one out of clay, and thus, Diana AKA Wonder Woman was born. Diana was “as lovely as Aphrodite, as wise