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    The origin of Wonder Woman. This hero comes from an anti-male island, ironically called Paradise Island, or formally, Themyscira. This island is home to the Amazons, and she is princess of them. In comics, and the movie, Wonder Woman is referred to as Diana and her mother is actually known as Hippolyta (Wonder Woman:

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    Wonder Woman

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    “It’s not about ‘deserve’. It’s about what you believe. And I believe in love.” These words said by Diana of Themyscira are relevant in every aspect of our current society. The movie “Wonder Woman” takes stereotypically feminine or weak values like love and empathy and makes them a source of power. In a day and age that is so barren of these principles, it is important to remember that forgiving and caring for people is not about whether they deserve it or not. Instead, it is about having the strength

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    In Wonder Woman women are characterized as strong and independant. There is an island called Themyscira that is inhabited by female warriors called amazons. These two works have similar yet different viewpoints on women and their roles in society. In both The Odyssey and Wonder Woman there are Goddesses. We have Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and warfare in, The Odyssey, and Diana, the princess of Themyscira, in Wonder Woman. Throughout the book Athena is a strong warrior, but the only times she is mentioned

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    understand Wonder Woman you must know of her origin. Created out of clay by her mother Hippolyta--the queen of the Amazons-- Wonder Woman was given life from the the gods of ancient Greece. She is arguably immortal due to her home on the island of Themyscira. Themyscira is where she was born; the island has been separated from the evils of man for thousands of years. Hippolyta named her daughter Diana, after the Roman goddess of the moon and hunt. The Amazons original purpose was to protect man’s world, but

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    shifted from some of the things that were portrayed in their works. Our contemporary ideals also consist of other ideals such as feminism, love, and intellectual power. Diana first appears in the film as a young girl who roamed around the paradise of themyscira. Inspired by her mother and aunt, she would stand above the towering hills and image their fighting techniques. Desperate, to be just like them Diana insisted to learn the ways of a warrior. Her mother, hippolyta, began to be concerned of Diana’s

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    of the Soviet Union and in the comic the role of Cuba is played by Wonder Woman. The symbolism writers went with when selecting the perfect ally, Themyscira is Wonder Woman’s birthplace, which is also described as Paradise Island. Cuba is well known for their beautiful vacation spots and the Havana life, which is similar to the description of Themyscira. Batman who is playing the role as a spy figured out what was going on between Superman and Wonder Woman. Which is how the United States found out

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    Feminism In Wonder Women

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    women is a superhero movie based on the DC comics character. The movie received a great amount of positive feedback with a 92% rating. Diana Prince portrayed by actress Gal Gadot, is the daughter of Queen Hippolyta. She’s raised on island known as Themyscira, where the Amazonian race are located. Here live strong independent women who are skilled warriors created by Zeus to protect mankind. She decides to put the mission upon herself to end the first World War which she believes is caused by Ares

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    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

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    The screenplay by Allan Heinberg drives home the point that for all the combat training and fear that has surrounded the self-described Amazons of Themyscira, Diana has an unyielding hope in the nature of good being inherent in everyone. She also knows that as Steve tells her more and more about the war raging outside, she is compelled to end the conflict in any way she can. Gadot does not just play

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    to bring love, peace, and sexual equality to a world torn by the hatred of men. The heroine Princess Diana of Themyscira, more famously known as Wonder Woman, has gone through various reimagining and different retellings in both media and comic books. But all of these have the same basic origin. She was born and lived the majority of her life on the isolated paradise island of Themyscira, an island inhabited entirely of Amazonian women. Everything changed one day when pilot, Captain Steve Trevor

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