The Wizard of Oz

novels. One of his most famous works - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - is often known for its vibrant color. It plays an important role in symbolizing various characters and settings. He makes it known that there is purpose to his colors.…

the Miriam Webster dictionary is defined as, “A strong belief or trust in something.” And Biblically, which is stated in Hebrews 11:1, faith is described as the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. In the movie The Wizard of Oz we are witness to a lot of examples of faith. In the movie, the main character, Dorothy, wishes she could just leave Kansas and experience new and exciting things. Before she’s going to leave, she visits a professor in her town to ask him…

In the movie the Wizard of Oz, the is one dynamic character that doesn’t have change throughout the movie, that person is the Scarecrow. He was his same clumsy self throughout the whole movie. Like, for example, when dorothy first found him he was stuck on the pole and he could not get down. When she did finally get him down, he was super clumsy and kept falling all over and could not stand up straight even if he tried. After they kept walking he did keep tripping and falling but he did finally…

can be found in the real world in some shape or form. However, the way in which they are expressed is when imagination, “the gothic”, and “the ‘Carnivalesque’” play a role and new ways in which the message is told is established. Victor Fleming’s Wizard of Oz is no exception, and his movie represents the American ideal of “America knows what’s best,” and the natural human need to be recognized, the latter being a topic we discussed in class. Since America has come into existence the American…

The Wizard of Oz-Expository #3 The cowardly lion is a great example of a dynamic character in The Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Dynamic characters such as the lion experience a drastic change as the story plays out. When the cowardly lion is first introduced to the plot he tries to scare Dorothy, the scarecrow, and the tinman by jumping out of the forest but to his dismay he was just as scared of them as they were him. He is truly terrified of anything and everything. Which leads to his…

In the movie, The Wizard of Oz, the protagonist is Dorothy and the antagonist is Dorothy herself and her not appreciating home and what she has. The type of conflict is person versus self. The actual problem is that Dorothy wants to go “over the rainbow” or she isn’t seeing and appreciating what she has. She is blind to her blessings. The reader sees this in the initial incident when she is worried about Toto and Ms Gulch, she is singing about some faraway place where all her problems will be…

role in shaping ideas about witches. In the musical “Wicked” by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman encompasses a variety of gender concept that contributed to the notion of witchcraft as well as the musical itself. Wicked is a retelling of The Wizard of Oz the story focuses on The Wicked Witch of…

musical practice finally started. Exhausted after class, I grudgingly sat down around the piano while I waited to the music to start and practice to begin. At 3 o’clock we began to learn our required songs for our audition. Our school play is the Wizard of Oz and I decided that I wanted to audition for Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the Good Witch. I was fully expecting Dorothy’s notes in her song “Over the Rainbow” to be a little high for me since I am an alto, and she is a soprano, but they were…

Gregory Maguire’s novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, is a rework of the classic novel, The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum. The novel aims to reveal the other side of Oz; the true side that the first novel masked. Munchkinland is no longer the peaceful place that we are accustomed to, but rather it is now full of political upheaval. The Wizard in Wicked has managed to usurp the throne and instill his own totalitarian regime. One important political issue…

In the movie based off of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, each of the characters, especially the scarecrow, were looking through the entire plot for something that they already had. The scarecrow spends the entire movie wishing for a brain, when there are several examples in the movie that proof that he could think perfectly well. The first point of the scarecrow’s ability to think comes in his ability to talk. As stated by Dorothy in the movie, you need to be able to think in order to talk.…