The Archetypes Identified in the Film “The Wizard of Oz” Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung introduced what he termed archetypes. In his view archetypes are considered to be models of people behaviors or personalities. Dr. Jung lists these archetypes by name calling them the ego, which represent the conscious mind and is the most individual part of the person, the self, represent the unification of the unconsciousness and consciousness of a person. The Shadow, consists of the sex and life instincts and exists as part of the unconscious mind and is composed of repressed ideas, weaknesses, desires, instincts, and shortcomings and often takes the form of the antagonist in a story. The Anima or Animus; the image represented by the anima is feminine
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We know the names Dorothy, the protagonist, the hero, Aunt Em, the aunt who personifies the animus; a woman with a strong male authority; Professor Marvel, Dorothy’s mentor, the one she meets prior to her journey away from her ordinary world, the symbol of her conscious mind. He is “The wise old man: guardian; knowledge; wisdom.” He encourages her to return home when she ran away. The Professor uses the trick of the crystal ball pretending to see a devastated Aunt Em suffering because Dorothy had left. Dorothy returns home to mend her relationship with her Aunt Em. In Dorothy’s adventure world, which is a symbol of unconsciousness, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion, the door keeper, are all from the people on the Kansas farm in her ordinary world. The Wizard of Oz is a film about Dorothy, who dreams of leaving the dusty farm where lives in “the "right-hand path, in her ordinary life, and is expected to follow the rules in the home of her Aunt Em and her Uncle the society in which they live. Dorothy sometimes faced her wicked old neighbor Ms. Gulch, the shadow and antagonist in Dorothy’s ordinary life. While upset one day, Dorothy goes from person to person on the farm to complain that Ms. Gulch has hit Toto with a rake for being in her garden. Dorothy’s Aunt Em, her uncle and the farm hands who are too busy to listen to her
We know the names Dorothy, the protagonist, the hero, Aunt Em, the aunt who personifies the animus; a woman with a strong male authority; Professor Marvel, Dorothy’s mentor, the one she meets prior to her journey away from her ordinary world, the symbol of her conscious mind. He is “The wise old man: guardian; knowledge; wisdom.” He encourages her to return home when she ran away. The Professor uses the trick of the crystal ball pretending to see a devastated Aunt Em suffering because Dorothy had left. Dorothy returns home to mend her relationship with her Aunt Em. In Dorothy’s adventure world, which is a symbol of unconsciousness, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion, the door keeper, are all from the people on the Kansas farm in her ordinary world. The Wizard of Oz is a film about Dorothy, who dreams of leaving the dusty farm where lives in “the "right-hand path, in her ordinary life, and is expected to follow the rules in the home of her Aunt Em and her Uncle the society in which they live. Dorothy sometimes faced her wicked old neighbor Ms. Gulch, the shadow and antagonist in Dorothy’s ordinary life. While upset one day, Dorothy goes from person to person on the farm to complain that Ms. Gulch has hit Toto with a rake for being in her garden. Dorothy’s Aunt Em, her uncle and the farm hands who are too busy to listen to her