Wonder Woman
The book tells us the story of the evolution of Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman used to be a gorgeous princess and just a pretty girl. The feminist movement and feminism are said to be a significant force and play a substantial contribution towards Marston’s creation of the feminist story of Wonder Woman. The story demonstrates how feminine rule as well as looks into the explosive popularity of comics. Though the book seems to be about Marston’s biography and family, it has consistently gestated the development of a Wonder Woman who is deeply rooted in feminism.
It is a non-fiction book where Jill Lepore tells the story in three parts that intertwine and intersect. Wonder Woman is one of the most interesting comic books of all time. The story begins during Marston’s childhood when she was a brilliant student with the best academic performance. During his time of writing about women, superheroes were not his favourite, but Marston developed a patriotism, which made the book the most famous superhero of all time. The secret behind Wonder Woman is richly illustrated and explained by the dual biographies of Marston and Wonder Woman. Just like any other hidden superhero, the mystery behind Wonder Woman has never revealed the secret to the public. However, Lepore was particular about pointing out his contradiction. He, therefore, invented a lie detector, but he was a liar, too, since he claimed that his girlfriend was his blood relative. He considered that women are stronger mentally compared to male but insisted that they are happier when they are submissive. In his comics, he shows her calling her mortal sister to fight their male oppressors (Lepore, np).
Marston’s most selfish decision inadvertently paved the way for women’s rights. After forcing his wife to let their mistress move in with them, Holloway passed and forded a career as a lecturer as well as an editor at a time when most women were discouraged from Working. At this time, it was believed that men were the only ones supposed to be working; hence, there was no position for a female in society. The story of The Secrets of a Wonder Woman left many with questions about what it takes for an author to suggest which topic to write about. The author, Jill, had a lot of passion for intelligent women, as well as opiated women who have big dreams and are inspirations to others; however, women who have a legacy have been getting overshadowed by third husbands. In her way, she is trying as much as she can to make women fight for their justice, unlike her counterparts.
The flakier aspect of Marston is his relationship with women. It, therefore, raised a lot of questions about his creation as a man who fought for women’s rights as well as his ultimate contribution. The great feminist would be seen subjecting most of the household to women without any explicit elaboration. While having some arguments about the place of Wonder Woman in the history of feminism, Lapore made some allowances for the creator as well as the setup. Marston’s story is such a terrific reading, which precisely has nothing that was uncovered about the family by Lapore, nor are sexual tastes a familiar place. Marston attended his higher education at Harvard, which is distinctly influenced by feminists, such as Pankhurst. Marston was more intrigued explicitly by many individuals who were banned from speaking on campus about birth control as well as a voting right of women in the year 1990s. Things even went worse when they brought a female feminist niece, Byrne, who was a niece to Margaret Sanger (Lepore, np).
The exploration by Lapore is an actual creation of wonder, having worked out of the work for some years. Marston decided against pursuing a job in the comics industry as a way of rapidly raising the population. The idea of Wonder Woman is used as a symbol of female superiority as well as empowerment. Most of her roots were a favourite story trope, and Marston used Wonder Woman as a vehicle of his personality, which might get twisted. The most significant backlash against the excessive use of bondage is said to be tied up and bound in chains mostly on every single page as well as every single issue. The comic became so popular in the United States, and it was only rivalled by Batman as well as Superman in sales, which got recorded overall. Hence, it led to unprecedented prosperity for the Marston in the year 1945, only a few years after Wonder Woman was created. However, in that year, Marston contracted Polio and died, and it was the turn of his wife Holloway to take place, but she was rejected. Instead, Wonder Woman was put under Kaigler, who stripped Wonder Woman of all of her feminist sensibilities and ended up being a helpless, stereotypic woman (Lepore, np).
However, later in the 1970s, Wonder Woman reemerged as one of the cultural icons and a new wave of feminist movements. She was featured in one of the feminist publications, Ms. magazine, which was written with a lot of Wonder Woman adventures and feminist ideas. The legacy of Wonder Woman is seen as up to date, and the impacts are recognized by today’s feminists. However, it was kept a secret due to the creator’s secret life.
Works Cited
Lepore, Jill. The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Vintage, 2015.
