The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz: Comparing Book And Film

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first a book is a well-known story about a girl name Dorthey who an orphaned girl. Who one day when a tornado swept her and her little dog Toto into the world far from Kansas called the kingdom of Oz. There she met a straw Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and coward Lion, who help her find her way to home. Many see the Wizard of Oz and think of it as just another movie meant to entertain families. However, very few actually understand the political concept and symbolism behind the characters of the story. Every character in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz has a political symbolic meaning.
“In this reading – snappily entitled a ‘parable on Populism’ – the Yellow Brick Road represents the gold standard, and the Wicked Witch of the
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Frank Baum’s book the wonderful Wizards of Oz and the movie The Wizards of OZ that was directed by victor Fleming. I every scene and chapter, there are numerous choices made by the movie producers that stray from the first content which is the book, however I think the greatest change is the general plot of the book. The book, as I would see it, is a great deal a greater amount of a circular plot, where the motion picture has a more circular plot. This bodes well while making an interpretation of a book into a film, particularly when thinking about that film was a to some degree new medium and book-to-film interpretations were just …show more content…
In the book, the Witch of the North and Glinda, the Witch of the South are two separate characters. In the motion picture, in any case, they were joined in the film, making another example of circularity. We meet Glinda when Dorothy first touches base in Munchkin Land and are returned to by her when she spares Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion in the field of poppies, and toward the finish of the motion picture when Dorothy is at last sent home. In the book, we met the Witch of the North when Dorothy initially touched base in Oz. She was portrayed as being substantially more established than Uncle Henry with a face "secured with wrinkles, her hair about white, and she strolled rather firmly". Glinda, the Witch of the South, is not presented until considerably later when she sends Dorothy home.
In addition, the Witch of the North, Glinda is "both delightful and youthful to their eyes". While I comprehend why these two witches were consolidated for the film, I think the story is ideally serviced by having the witches as particular characters. On the off chance that Glinda realized that the shoes would take Dorothy home from the earliest starting point, why might she make her go on such a tiresome and risky adventure? With two diverse witches, it is less demanding to comprehend that maybe the Witch of the North did not know the force of the shoes, making the adventure to search out Glinda fundamental.

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