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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…

For the last one hundred years, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, and its 1939 motion picture counterpart, The Wizard of Oz, directed by Victor Fleming, Mervyn LeRoy, and George Cukor, have had tremendous effects on the culture of the United States of America. Fulfilling dreams as a child and, on a grander scale, promoting Populism, are some of the most noted influential concepts put forth by both adaptions. Whether it was the adventurous story of how a young girl returned to her…

The Wizard of Oz is one of four books from a series called, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. The novel is fairytale known for it relatable content towards the face of modern day society, the boys and girls in America during the early 1900s. The gaping aspects of a young child, Dorothy being the hero of the story captivated the children of both now and then. The Wizard of Oz is take place in a fantasy world geared toward the ending implication that all dreams can be…

Over the Rainbow The Wizard of Oz is one of the most pivotal movies of its time. Directed by Victor Fleming, almost 80 years ago in 1939, he created one of the most classic movies of all time. The movie was inspired by the novel written by L. Frank Baum over 100 years ago in 1900. Judy Garland perfected the role of Dorothy Gale who so selfishly seeking to escape from her own family and their Kansas farm. Dorothy soon finds herself in a juxtaposed universe after a tornado ravages through the…

The Wizard of Oz, has become a classic. Baum's story continues to affect children and adults today. Most people view the story as a simple fantasy, and some think the story symbolizes real life issues. Baum's tone gives you a good visual, it is light-hearted and whimsical as well as enchanting. When Dorothy first arrived Oz was a vibrant technicolor land, compared to the black and white Kansas prairie. Each land is symbolized by a color. Color tends to make people associate with certain feelings…

under one head. In some selections, characters go through certain journeys to find love from their family. These two selections you would think that they are not similar but in reality they actually are through love. The two selections are The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming and Matilda by Roald Dahl. Dorothy and Matilda, protagonists imagined in different centuries, come to recognize the value of love and family over the illusory world of imagination, a contrast emphasized by the ironic use of…

moved to the world of Oz by a tornado. This transportation is much like the one that Dorothy goes through in the famous movie, The Wizard of Oz. Oz, however, is not as it used to be. The author wrote, “My head was swimming. If this was a fantasy, it was a strange one: this wasn’t the Oz that I had read about or seen in the movie. It was as if someone had drained out some of the Technicolor and introduced some serious darkness” (Paige 19). Instead of the joyful, colorful world of Oz the most…

Wizard of OZ to A Modest Proposal Are The Wizard of Oz and A Modest Proposal really what they seem? Or do they have a deeper meaning? This essay will go over the different types of Oz beliefs and also compare them to that of A Modest Proposal. The Wizard of Oz is a film created by L. Frank Baum. In this flick, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado and somehow whisked away to the Land of Oz. There, the meets some noticeable friends and foes on her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who…

For reasons that defy logic, movie studios continuously attempt to build around the foundation of film classics. Take The Wizard of Oz for example – which in the last 3 years alone has garnered a prequel (Oz the Great and Powerful) and a sequel (Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return). And as you might expect, neither of those productions was able to fully harness the admiration and energy established by the 1939 classic. Sure, there’s plenty of other examples to use, as well – like virtually any…

The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz. The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel, gave it the name by which it is better known, the Yellow Brick Road (it is never referenced by that title in the original novel). In the later film The Wiz, Dorothy has to find the road, as the house was not deposited directly in front of it; in the novel…