History

A myth is a tale that more often than not is considered sacred and used to elucidate some natural occurrences or cultural observances. Myths revolve about doings performed by gods or heroes. In more simplistic terms, they are used to provide insight to a peoples value system, traditions and beliefs, pattern of behavior and customs. Myths have different functions from which they can be classified accordingly. Religious myths form the origins of rituals while the behavioral patterns and ways of thinking are covered by the psychological myths. Relationship ties between individuals and groups are explained by the social myths and edification functions in the subjects of moral integrity, justice and punishment are explored by the social more category. 
    Wonder Woman is a heroic figure in various comic series and she is a member of the Amazons who are a tribe of female warriors forming part of the Greek mythology. Created in 1940 during the period of World War Two, she is the representation of a social more charter by the fact that her sole duty to humanity is to instill the Amazon idyllic of love, harmony and sexual impartiality in the world that is ailing from the hatred that men have towards each other. To aid her in her responsibility, she possesses supernormal strength and swiftness, stamina and flying skills. In addition to this, she has undergone an extensive training, overseen by her mother, in the areas of hand combat and other types of strategic warfare techniques for a period of three thousand years. On her hands, she wears indestructible wristlets that help in shielding off bullets while her magic lasso (noose) gives her the special ability of extracting truth from anyone that it binds. Her extraordinary abilities have their foundation in the religious ties that she has with her Greek ancestry and culture (Daniels, 2004).
    The Greek religious practice, which is polytheistic in nature, attributes different functions to different gods and through the creation of Wonder Woman, the myth of religious ritual charter is developed. The origin of life here is attributed to creationism as it is traced to the combined ideas of six Olympian gods. Her body is modeled from clay and afterwards her soul is infused and she now becomes a living being. Her strength is given to her by Demeter the agriculture and fertility deity, Aphrodite the love, beauty grants her a loving heart, and physical beauty, Pallas grants her military expertise from her wisdom and war duty. Goddess of hunt, animals and moon, Artemis gives her the ability to communicate with animals Hermes the speed god gives her the flight and velocity ability and Hestia the deity of fire and home grants her the ability to be able to search mens hearts and minds through her lasso. From this god given abilities, Wonder Woman has an incredible advantage over dangers that tend to arise in the path of her destiny, though her humanity is emphasized from the fact that she can get hurt through her delicate skin (Beatty, 2003).
    From her tale, the belief of creationism that is widely spread across different cultures and religious customs around the globe is explored. Abilities and talents that are considered as in born as a gift from God are also seen from the ones that are awarded to her by the gods. However, training that is required in the different areas of life like in the working environment are also given their purpose in life as we see her having physical training sessions in hand combat and war techniques to keep her in shape for her career as a warrior. Personal destiny that Wonder Woman has in her life as being responsible for instilling love and peace in men, the promotion of justice to those who are rightfully alienated and the punishment that the evil doers are applied to emphasizes on the acceptable ethics and needs that are prevalent in the globe. Women are symbols of love and tenderness, which are brought out from the peace and love that she is sent to instill in men (Rucka  Johnson, 2004).
    Ideals and values that she stands for are peace, love and justice with more emphasis on the justice bit. All the wars that she fights for are in all ways connected to the need to uphold impartiality in all areas of the humanity. Indeed, she is a representation of American femininity as it argues for the cause of women empowerment in the view that they are not subordinate to men in any way. In the 1940s when the character was introduced, the cartoon industry had been dominated by male action figures like Superman and Batman. This actually presented the biased view that women were treated with in the society especially in the work places with the generalized view that men were better than women in most of the jobs, especially those that involved hard and intellectual work. The idealistic change created an entry point for women to be represented as an equal substitute to the males as seen by the first creation of Wonder Woman and the subsequent adaptation of the character in the Justice Society of America, where she now fought side by side with her male counterparts and as the only woman in the group.
    Her representation is a psychological awakening of the female class to be able to view themselves as equally talented and well capable of accomplishing anything that they put their mind and heart to, including all that men can do. Note that, women are also depicted as well able to perform some of the duties better that men can do in the area of specialization. The power and strength that she possesses is used to identify the build and achievements of female sport persons, martial artisans and the other group of strongly built category of women in other social areas like arts.  Hence, we can conclusively agree that the creation and introduction of Wonder Woman into the world of comics brought along the culture of gender equality in all the social areas with the emphasis being laid on the values of love, peace and justice.