Scarecrow

that it would eventually get her home. When she met the three characters along the way, they all had a hard time believing that the Wizard would give them what they needed. The Scarecrow wished that he had a brain. The Tinman was searching for a heart. And finally, the Lion yearned for courage. Once Dorothy met the Scarecrow, she convinced him that he would be able to get a brain, and then they both convinced the Tinman that he’d be able to get a heart. All together they convinced the Lion that…

The scarecrow begins to see himself in a world filled with deception and being constantly observed by corporate watch birds. Through substantial rationality, he is able to reflect on his place in society and use his agency to change the output of food. Postmodernism…

man, but rather a scarecrow. Then, Phoenix mistakes the figure to be a ghost. Thinking she is confronting a ghost, she talks with directness and conviction. She says, “who be you the ghost of? For I have heard of nary death close by’”(144). However, she then learns it is not a ghost when reaches in the scarecrows coat, and feels “an emptiness, cold as ice”(144). Essentially, Phoenix is being confronted with a figure, whom she took to be a living man, but is in fact just a scarecrow, which…

NBC brings Emerald City, another version of the popular Wizard of Oz. If viewers are looking for a story full of magic but has the taste of Game of Thrones, then Emerald City is it. A new trailer from NBC releases what to expect from Emerald City. It is an adult version of the classic fantasy drama. If Wicked is not adulty enough for theater viewers, this adaptation is definitely it. Grown-up Dorothy The actress who plays Dorothy Gale is Adria Arjona, cites Slash Film. She definitely looks…

Home and a Humbug: Power via Subversion & Desire in the Fantasy Novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Desire is a common feeling for many readers, such as the desire for one’s favourite character to triumph, but how common is desire for characters in novels and how important is it for characters? Characters in every genre experience feelings of desire but these feelings are extremely prevalent in fantasy, alongside desire’s counterpart subversion. Rosemary Jackson in “Fantasy: The Literature of…

is and Odysseus respond with nobody. B) Additionally, in The Wizard of Oz the hero would be Dorothy because she is brave when she faces the Wicked Wizard of the West. 1) Dorothy was brave when she defended her friend the scarecrow once the Wicked Witch of the West lite the Scarecrow on fire with the torch Dorothy threw…

could respond back to her. Another example is her encounter with a scarecrow. At first she thought it was a dancing man, but he did not make a sound. When she made her second guess of a ghost she asks, “who you be the ghost of? For I have heard of narry death close by.” When the “ghost” didn’t answer, she moved closer. She reached out a hand and touched an empty sleeve. She then realized this was a scarecrow and says, “Dance old scarecrow, while I dance with you.” In the end when Phoenix…

live in Paris. I would fight for the food and voice the people lacked. The hunger and the want that people had was so strong it could spark a revolution, and it would. “The time was not come yet”(pg 45), but when it was, I wanted to be among the scarecrows who finally frightened the birds (pg 45). I would also rather live in France because the people know they are suffering and thus, “there is a special companionship in it.” (pg 41). People join together because of this suffering, men, “tried…

In a time, where hundreds of movies based around a hero are produced and released each year one would think that the medium would have to change rapidly in order to keep its audience, but no matter how different they seem most all share the basis of the archetypical hero. One story that exemplifies this is the story of Bruce Wayne in the beloved movie Batman Begins. This movie portrays the story of Wayne as he transforms from a semi-pampered rich kid, into a symbol of justice that makes the…

time Dorothy steps off of it. Young Gale was introduced to the yellow brick road when she wanted to look for the Wizard and head to Emerald City but along the way, she saw the Scarecrow and by the time she steps on the Scarecrow’s area, they were both introduced to each other and a problem gets raised (in this case the Scarecrow wants to have a brain). In the next stop, she went off the road again by checking out the apples and the apple trees gone wild and started to attack them and led them to…