Wonder Woman Analysis

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Wonder Woman in an Age Travel
The amazon that became a superhero feminist symbol
Film industry is a micrograph of our society. As a result of this many inequalities are provided to the big screen. However, the section of inequality has very broad horizons that it is very difficult to detect and analyzed them. The sexism that prevails is one basic factor and a primary component to this discrimination. Cinema as a constructed representation of almost every societal issue and problems, has many examples of sexists’ behaviors, but also of non-sexist behaviors, and even feminist movements take place to this industry. As a micrograph also all the ideological political and historical scenes and changes are reflected to the “big scene”. One of the …show more content…

The Amazon’s of Themiscyra story starts on 1941 and her “father” was William Moulton Marston a feminist psychologist. Her creation was basically for feminist purposes, to change the archetypes of women in comics in those days and later on, on television, and cinema. According to Marston, he wanted to create an icon for little girls and he wrote in a 1943 magazine article that “Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, power.”(Docterman, 2016) This revolution of women’s way that was represented became almost 30 years before the big change of “liberated women” in film industry. Wonder women so, became pioneer to her kind, years before the big change. Wonder Woman was Princess Diana of Themyscira, an all-female island, and the first time that coverage with a man was during the World War II, that an American soldier fell into the island after a plane crash. After that she decided to go with the men and fight in World War II. Her transition of her physical nature to a superhero is the primary sign of her feminist side. He didn’t became superhero for revenge, or for a very bad event that happened to her life, that most of the times happened to superheroes, (batman became superhero in order to revenge after his parents murder), and more specific for females superheroes that the bad event most of the times is fully related to sexual harassment (catwoman). Princess Dianna on the other hand, became superhero in order to help people in the name of love and kindness. Another part of feminist film theory that is abolished also through the Wonder Woman is the the Smurfette principle. Pollitt defines as Smurfette principle, “group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female, stereotypically defined.” In other