In the novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," there has been many ideas that are uncertain whether Frank Baum used the novel to illustrate the socio-economic development of the late 1800’s. Straight to the point Baum moved to the Midwest in the height of the development and saw a large part of the difficult situations that the farmers had to deal with. He understood their issues and supported their argument to have government regulation on the railways and banks. Baum was also around during the Panic of 1893, which was a flood of silver available, making people hurry to their banks, making bank runs. The people however just got gold credits, which practically exhausted the U.S's. gold holds and created a Great Depression like state in the nation.
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Be that as it may, he was never a big “politician” as some other authors may have been and was misjudged by many who thought he was indifferent to Native Americans and thoughtful towards the farmers. The confirmation behind Baum's support starts from the thought, that he generally voted for democrats. In any case, this was not the situation as Frank Baum composed many articles in support of the Republican Party and wasn't in favor of the Native Americans. Baum thoughts of the Republican Party's idea of a tax reduction, which was against the movements purpose, and Baum's feelings against the movement. It was also believed that Baum moved to the Midwest and it was a vote based area where everybody agreed that it was them against the east and west and he felt a passion towards these people, when this was generally off-base. Although the democrats did well in the 1890 decisions it was a clear victory for the Republicans in the 1892 and 1894 …show more content…
Also, he says that, "A few people without brains do a terrible part of talking." This could be contrasted with government who might appear to be just faces and generally don’t do their own work or even thinking in some cases William McKinley could be a prime illustration of this because of the fact that some said that he had no clue what to do with his political force and toward the end of the novel the Wizard, who is contrasted with William McKinley, is taking off in the inflatable and says I don't know how to function this. The Tin man speaks to all the eastern commercial trips that were rusting and falling into the 1890's sadness. The Tin man also speaks to the level of sneakiness of the east because of the fact that he has no heart and this demonstrates the very badly treated laborers that were changed into machines, instead of the ranchers who did everything themselves. The weak Lion was an image of W.J. Bryan on the grounds that like toward the end of the novel he understands that he generally had boldness, yet never truly stuck to it. Also, it was kind of unexpected because of the fact that as the lion he should be the ruler of the land when W.J. Bryan was anything, however a lion as he lost the presidential race 4 times. Also, the wizard character spoke to all that most people need and expect of the political
Be that as it may, he was never a big “politician” as some other authors may have been and was misjudged by many who thought he was indifferent to Native Americans and thoughtful towards the farmers. The confirmation behind Baum's support starts from the thought, that he generally voted for democrats. In any case, this was not the situation as Frank Baum composed many articles in support of the Republican Party and wasn't in favor of the Native Americans. Baum thoughts of the Republican Party's idea of a tax reduction, which was against the movements purpose, and Baum's feelings against the movement. It was also believed that Baum moved to the Midwest and it was a vote based area where everybody agreed that it was them against the east and west and he felt a passion towards these people, when this was generally off-base. Although the democrats did well in the 1890 decisions it was a clear victory for the Republicans in the 1892 and 1894 …show more content…
Also, he says that, "A few people without brains do a terrible part of talking." This could be contrasted with government who might appear to be just faces and generally don’t do their own work or even thinking in some cases William McKinley could be a prime illustration of this because of the fact that some said that he had no clue what to do with his political force and toward the end of the novel the Wizard, who is contrasted with William McKinley, is taking off in the inflatable and says I don't know how to function this. The Tin man speaks to all the eastern commercial trips that were rusting and falling into the 1890's sadness. The Tin man also speaks to the level of sneakiness of the east because of the fact that he has no heart and this demonstrates the very badly treated laborers that were changed into machines, instead of the ranchers who did everything themselves. The weak Lion was an image of W.J. Bryan on the grounds that like toward the end of the novel he understands that he generally had boldness, yet never truly stuck to it. Also, it was kind of unexpected because of the fact that as the lion he should be the ruler of the land when W.J. Bryan was anything, however a lion as he lost the presidential race 4 times. Also, the wizard character spoke to all that most people need and expect of the political