Marston Wonder Woman Analysis

Elements in Marston's background That Helped Him Create Wonder Woman Although William Marston's creation of Wonder Woman was greatly inspired by Sadie and Olive, a lot about his childhood also contributred to the vision he had about the series. His professors in Harvard and the people he met along the way, also inspired alot of characters in the series. When he was a child he was greatly adored and cherished by the women around him, especially his mother and his aunts. He also loved women alot and he took a course in history where he wrote about women suffrage that was going on around during that period (Lepore, 18). Marston also grew up listening to Margaret Sanger who was a feminism activist and also advocated for the use of birth control. …show more content…
He also believed the kind of love he enjoyed as a child should be given to every other person. He was also inspired by Elizabeth as she was a very inteligent young woman when they had attended school at a young age. Marston had also seen the women suffrage movement, where women chained themselves to the gates of the white house. These pictures intrigued him and he saw the ability of women to stand up for their rights and fight for themselves. This inspired the chains which he used in the series to explain how Wonder Woman was tied and made powerless, but she eventually evolved and learned to escape from these shackles. Margaret Sanger who was also a strong feminist and an aunt to Olive, also had a lot of influence on him because of the woman rights movement she supported at that time. Sanger had believed that women are being tied down because of the babies they have and they cannot move forward in life and cannot pursue their careers. Although, he kept this part of his inspiration a secret, it was not a secret anymore after