What Does Green Symbolize In The Wizard Of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written by L. Frank Baum and the colors in this story represent the different regions in the different towns and cities the characters visit. Green represents the Emerald City where Oz resides, yellow represents the Yellow Brick Road which leads to the Emerald City, the color red represents the Quadlings, and the color blue represents the Munchkin Country. The color green represents the Emerald city. However anyone who enters into this city must wear green tinted glasses. The city is so bright and glorified that it can blind its civilians. Although the Emerald City is at the end of the yellow brick road this is the land of the munchkins, and this is where the great Wizard of Oz resides. The emerald city is filled with marble green buildings and roads, and the people there were dressed in …show more content…
One day Dorothy’s house is airlifted by a cyclone, its lands on top of the wicked witch of the west and kills her. Dorothy is then receives a huge praise from the Munchkins in return, and she also is given the silver shoes to protect her on her trip to see Oz. Her house lands in Munchkin Country at random, and she realizes that she is not anywhere near Kansas. After receiving advice from the Munchkins to follow the yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, on her journey she sees blue houses and queerly dressed people in blue kilts and hats. She finds somewhere to pass the night on her journey and she is told by the family that blue is the color that represents the Munchkin Country. In conclusion, Frank Baum applied colors to symbolize the different regions in The Land of The Wizard of Oz. However Baum describes all of the colors specifically so that they have a representation, which plays a very important role in the Wizard of Oz. Baum also portrays the colors individually throughout the story so that they are used as building blocks to the next part of the developing