Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Wizard of Oz are great works of fantasy. Each novel incorporates aspects that can help the reader understand more about a child’s way of thinking and his/her journey to adulthood. Also elements from Bettelheim‚ Freud and Jung can be applied in analyzing each work. In both Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Wizard of Oz ‚ the authors delineate essential components to show how the main characters‚ Alice and Dorothy‚ mature from childhood
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Mise-en-scène The placement of a prop or altering the way the light shines on a scene‚ however insignificant they may seem‚ are ways that the director can select and control meaning in a film. Such is in The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming‚ 1939)‚ specifically during the scene where Dorothy (Judy Galand) has been locked in the Wicked Witch of the West’s (Margaret Hamilton) castle room by herself; many aspects of mise-en-scene are noticeable. Many of the elements of the scene she is in contribute to
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The Wizard of Oz is about a young girl named Dorothy‚ who realizes the value and importance of her family after ending up in a different world after a twister. Throughout the film‚ there was repetition of sayings and songs. There are also many hidden messages in the film that are very powerful. There is symbolism behind the personalities of the scarecrow‚ tin man‚ and the lion‚ which happens to portray Dorothy’s inner emotions and thoughts of herself. The film‚ The Wizard of Oz‚ has plenty of songs
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child‚ I watched the “The Wizard of Oz‚” all the time; but when we watched it together in my U.S. History Class‚ I realized that the meaning is much deeper than it seems. Many of the characters and significant places or things in the movie can represent people‚ places‚ things and ideas from American history. There are many ways to connect “The Wizard of Oz‚” to history. In “The Wizard of Oz” Dorothy is a simple girl who gets caught up in a huge scenario involving wizards‚ flying monkeys‚ and many
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In the wizard of oz the magical land of Oz‚ color is used to depict varied characteristics of the story‚ including things like place‚ mood and emotions. The specified color for each location throughout the story allows the reader to more easily follow with their progression through the tale. Colors were used to describe The wizard of oz is a story of a girl and her dog encountering new friends in a new strange colorful land trying to get back to a world that seems rather dull or grey .The
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The Wizard of Oz is one of the biggest American Musicals in film. It has become known world wide‚ it is apart of our American popular culture‚ and is best known of all films. It was based on the novel‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in the 1900s. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayar in the year of 1939. This film just hit the end of the “Golden Age of the Musical” that started in the early 1930s. MGM benefited greatly from the hit of the rebirth of musicals. It’s known for
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that are present throughout the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum are that of friendship and kindness. The story presents these values through the character of Dorothy seen both expressing and receiving kindness. By illustrating these occurrences‚ this paper will show how it is through the kindness that Dorothy gives and receives‚ as well as the friendships that result‚ that she is able to find her way home to Kansas. Upon entering the Land of Oz‚ Dorothy receives sympathy from the munchkins
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Mattie Ross from the novel True Grit and Dorothy Gale from the movie The Wizard of Oz are two young girls who embark on two different adventures. Both this novel and the movie are very different in many ways but also very similar if you analyze each detail closely. For instance‚ both True Grit and The Wizard of Oz were made into a movie and have more than one version. The obvious one is that both of these have their leading role being a female protagonist that is young. The other obvious one is that
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these lessons or messages can be very subtle. Themes can be exemplified by mise en scène‚ either by the use of acting style or a characters thoughts that can give us the aspect of human dilemma that will explore the theme of the film. In The Wizard of Oz (1939)‚ there are many themes that could be exhumed‚ but a major theme is “perception”. Both director and writer uses sensory means in order to bring the awareness of the theme of the story and there are immediate recognitions of moral qualities
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components. It can be perceived as a process which leads to a conclusion or destination. The journey process is more significant than the destination. William Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’‚ J.M Barrie’s novel Peter Pan and Victor Flemming’s film The Wizard of Oz (1939)‚ all communicate journey concepts. Through analysing the ideas and textual conventions it will become evident that the ‘journey process’ is more important than the destination. Shakespeare shows a greater understanding of the journey concept
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