Wicked Witch of the West

The Wicked Effects of Prejudice: Prejudice and Discrimination Glinda. Delightful. Angelic. The Wicked Witch of the West. Wretched. Demonic. Although it has been a few years since I last viewed the Wizard of Oz I still recall these perceptions of the characters from the movie. Even now, when I picked up the book Wicked, taking place in Oz, however under different pretenses, these perceptions that I had formed from viewing the Wizard of Oz all those years ago left a lasting impression. After…

There are antagonists in different stories ,but there are usually just one. There is commonly a few protagonist in each story. Some antagonists are the wicked witch of the west, the evil queen, and Voldemort from harry potter. Out of all the antagonists in all stories and movies I think the joker batman's enemy is the most cruel adversary. I imagine the joker being very sneaky and atrocious to citizens. The joker is the finest antagonist I have appreciated in all my days. The coolest part…

In Victor Fleming’s film, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy heavily relies on the advice given to her from the other characters she encounters on her journey back to Kansas. However, not all advice she receives is beneficial or truthful. In many instances, Dorothy is given information from people she trusts, such as the Wizard or Glinda, that is blatantly perfidious. By applying Steven McCornack’s Information Manipulation Theories, we can understand The Wizard of Oz as a description of the purpose of…

A tin man without a heart, a scarecrow without a brain, a lion without any courage, and a girl that was taken from her home to embark on a journey to meet the wizard. The making of this iconic film was nothing short of a challenge and many issues occurred. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is known as a classic but many do not know how much went into the making of the movie; beginning with the book, summary of the movie, and the casting and issues that occurred during filming. The Wizard of Oz is a…

As Dorothy and her trio are traveling to find the Wicked Witch of the West to destroy her following the Wizard's order. The Witch sends her servants to "teat her to pieces", as she says. First, she sends forty wolves after them. The tinman cut off all forty of their heads. Next, she sends a flock of forty crows. The scarecrow takes care of these attackers by "twisting a neck, until at last, all were lying dead beside him". The next group the Witch sends to do her bidding is a swarm of bees.…

There are many allegorical similarities between L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz and the Populist Movement of the 1890’s, almost too many to believe they are accidental. However, writers tell stories about what they know, no matter how farfetched these stories may seem. Baum’s real world inspirations surrounded him everyday, and it is not unreasonable to argue these inspirations influenced Baum’s writing on a subconscious level. Depending on what mindset you read the book in, these connections…

One day Dorothy’s house is airlifted by a cyclone, its lands on top of the wicked witch of the west and kills her. Dorothy is then receives a huge praise from the Munchkins in return, and she also is given the silver shoes to protect her on her trip to see Oz. Her house lands in Munchkin Country at random, and she realizes that she is not…

Fairy tales are stories that we grew up with as children. Many of these classic tales were used as a way to teach important morals at the time of their creation. However many of these stories contained one-dimensional, stereotypical characters with simple, almost predictable, plots. This was how many fairy tales were told until 1900 when L Frank Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz. L Frank Baum thought differently of these stories and wanted The Wizard of Oz to be a modernized fairytale. The term…

Little did they know how much trouble that was going to cause me. Growing up, evil people always tried to do me harm, when baby, the Evil Queen tried to kidnap me and raise me as her own, as a toddler, the Wicked Witch of the West from the Land of Oz, dressed herself as my nanny and tried to use me for her benefit. Once a teenager however, I had learned ways to protect myself, I already knew my way through every single town. Specially through Peter Pan’s village, when…

In the popular children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum, populism can be seen more often than not. Baum cleverly displays this through all of his characters. Each is symbolic to his everyday life, as well as to other common people’s lives that have had similar experiences, or can relate in any way to the author. For instance, Dorothy represents an adolescent’s innocence, Toto represents virtuousness, the Scarecrow represents the hard working farmers, the Tinman…