The Wizard of Oz is a classic‚ a legend‚ and a children’s story that will never grow old. Quotes from the story such as “Toto‚ I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore‚” “Lions‚ and tigers‚ and bears! Oh‚ my‚” and “There’s no place like home‚” are ones that will always pop into our heads when someone says “The Wizard of Oz.” These are the lines that are related right away to the famous story. Dorothy’s long‚ adventurous trip down the Yellow Brick Road is something that everyone loves to read
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The Wizard of Oz was a powerful movie made in the thirties. It did not just tell a simple story of a girl who gets lost‚ but also brought many different ideas about current events of that time to the surface. The Wizard of Oz was released on August 25‚ 1939‚ a time where women did not play a big role in society. It tells a story of a young girl who magically appears in the Land of Oz after a powerful twister comes through Kansas‚ her home state. In Oz‚ Dorothy goes on a journey to find the great
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Sam Stillerman Wizard of Oz Allegorical Analysis 3rd Period Mrs. Stanley APUSH The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is believed by many to be an allegory of the current economical and political state that America was facing in the late 1800s. This allegory is mostly in line with the populist movement‚ a quickly growing belief that bankers and corporations controlled the two major parties in America. The Populist Party quickly arose from this movement‚ consisting mostly of farmers and other agriculturally
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fictional tale that appeals to many children as they travel with Dorothy from her gray home in Kansas to the wonderful land of Oz. The story begins with the lead character Dorothy‚ who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on their farm in Kansas. A horrible cyclone carries her and her dog Toto inside their home to the Land of Oz‚ where her home falls on the Wicked Witch of the East. She learns from the munchkins (citizens) that to return home‚ she needs to travel
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Sequence Analysis: Wizard of Oz Rabi Kumaraswamy October 31‚ 2014 DRAMA 3030 Dr. Aaron Taylor In the Wizard of Oz‚ we see the journey of a girl‚ Dorothy Gale‚ in her dreams to escape her dismal life on the farm and her troubles with her aunt and uncle. It is only after she dreams of being in a place unfamiliar and troublesome that she realizes how much her family means to her. From this we can see the film’s explicit meaning: “There’s no place like home.” Although this line can in ordinary be a
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Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political‚ economic and social events of America in the 1890s. Scholars have examined four quite different versions of Oz: the novel of 1900‚ the Broadway play of 1901‚the Hollywood film of 1939‚ and the numerous follow-up Oz novels written after 1900 by Baum and others. The political interpretations focus on
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Zyerre Jenkins American Literature August 17‚ 2016 There are a lot of symbols and symbolic meaning to the person‚ places‚ and things in "The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. Four main symbols are the colors red‚ blue‚ green‚ and yellow. Each color has a different meaning and contribution to the story. It begins with the color blue. The color blue in "The Wizard of Oz" was owned by the munchkins that lived on the east. The story begins with Dorothy’s house crushing the wicked witch of the east. The munchkins
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In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ the author‚ L. Frank Baum uses colors to symbolize a variety of things. When he wrote his story he probably had a specific plan in regards to what color was going to symbolize what. Colors can be used to symbolize a variety of things like the mood of the story‚ a character’s feelings‚ the temperature in the story‚ or even be symbolic of something in the real world. It would be left up to the reader’s interpretation of the story to see if they were able to uncover what
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Although adversity may reveal ones fate or fortune; a friend would show his true side in the time to come. In the movie the "Oz: The Great and Powerful" downfall and redemption play a major role in the development of each character. At the beginning of Oz the great and poweful it seems as Oscar is at rock bottem. During Oscars magic show things dont go as expected when a paralized girl asks him to make her walk instead of telling her that he is a illusion a fake he lets her cry and just leaves
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Introduction The classical movie‚ The Wizard of Oz (1939) brought life to viewers during the Great Depression‚ by the mise en scene and techniques used: color‚ lighting‚ and acting styles made The Wizard of Oz one of the most popular classical movies that is watched by people of all ages. The Wizard of Oz is most identified as a fantasy genre where many conventions and attributes are met during the proganist‚ Dorothy’s journey through a mystical and colorful world of talking creatures. In the
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