The Wizard Of Oz Book Analysis

Fairy tales have been a part of nearly every culture for what seems like forever, and show no signs of dissolving out of our culture any time soon. A fairytale is defined as a story taking place in a magical, far away land with magical creatures or elements. Almost every known fairytale has a moral or message that it is trying to send to its readers, even if it might not be obvious, it might be hiding in plain sight. Fairytales have arguably impacted our culture with more iconic settings and characters than probably any other genre of stories. For my group fairytale update, with Jon and April, we decided to update the story of “The Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, which was later turned into the iconic movie in 1939. While this might not be a fairytale in the same sense of ‘Little Red …show more content…
This movie takes an interesting twist on the heroes’ journey by parodying most fairytales within its story. It uses all the classic iconic parts of most of the fairytales in order to move the plot forward and to mock in a humorous way. Shreks call to journey is all the fairytale creatures being exiled to his swamp. He reluctantly accepts the call and goes off on his journey. He has to fight all of Lord Farquads guards in order to prove himself to the Lord, who then decides that he could use Shrek as his mule to get the princess her wants and bring her to him. Lord Farquad is now characterized as the main antagonist of this story. He then has to face the dragon, which is the terrible danger that they must defeat in order to get what they want which is the princess. After defeating the dragon the gang gets what they want, which is the princess. This could be viewed as them “seizing the sword”. They now have to deal with the road back to Far Far Away, and crossing the threshold back into “the real world”. Lastly Shrek must win back his love which allows us to enter the climax of the story, and in doing so the resolution of the story is