Wicked Witch of the West

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…

Georgia Lindstedt The Great Depression A time where countries were bombed, when suicide was a daily thing, and a time where Jews were killed and shunned in Europe; it was a time known as The Great Depression. The Great Depression was a gruesome decade for families, countries, and nations. Franklin. D. Roosevelt once said, “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” That’s exactly what happened to America. We…

Abstract: Disney released its first princess movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the year 1930 and since have produced various others which have been a major part of popular culture in the West and gradually all over the world. This research aims to study how these movies represent the social conditions, especially for women, in those respective eras. The objective of this research is to point out these developments and understand and urge future story tellers, film makers and artists to…

self image, and popularity status. They struggle with this originating in elementary school, and all the way through high school. “ Looks alone would be enough to keep most guys with my particular body design as far away from water as the Wicked Witch of the West,but swimming is a thinking man’s sport and Ms. Lemry is swimming is a thinking man’s coach” (Crutcher 4). This shows that Eric used his struggle of self image to produce an immense swimmer and not care about what’s on the outside.…

become my reality. The tornado in my life did not take me from Kansas to the land of Oz, but instead from Chicago to Buffalo where I had to search for the yellow brick road as I explored my new life. In Buffalo, I wasn’t faced with the Wicked Witch of the West or flying monkeys, but I encountered more personal and…

It Takes Two "It takes two to make to make things go right, it takes two to make it out of sight" are the brilliant lyrics to Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock's It Takes Two, which happens to be the anthem of The Proposal. The Proposal is the romantic comedy about a book publisher that appears to have everything and her assistant that she never took the time to get to know. Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) the high class book publisher finds out that she is being deported back to Canada; in order to stay…

There is no Place like home Today we are going to go about the major theme in the movie The Wizard of Oz. According to the text, “A theme is an idea, subject, or topic of some kind that pervades the plot. It is not so much what happens, but rather what the movie is about, part of the meaning you are expected to take away from the work” (Goodykoontz, 2014 ). The one theme that is depicted in Wizard of Oz, and many critics would say that it is the main theme and flow of the film which is beckoned…

positive emphasis on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered community. Chenoweth pleaded with news outlets to embrace and promoted stories that include unity, acceptance, and love. Another show that has earned her public recognition is The West Wing, as she played Annabeth Schott, from 2004 to 2006. Glee is a show that everyone, who is alive, has either heard about or has watched. Chenoweth has gained a lot of public attention as she has guest-starred on the popular show. Her…

women are allowed a mind or a body but not both” (Wolf 59). In stories like The Wizard of Oz where there are two female characters with one “beauty-without-intelligence” and one “intelligence-without-beauty”, in this case, Glenda and the Wicked Witch of the West, beauty always wins in the end. This defines “one winner and one loser in the beauty myth” (Wolf 60). In stories and books, writers reverse the beauty myth making an intelligent and beautiful lady who is also the winner of the book. In…

MENOPAUSE ( POEMS) Azeez Akinwumi SESAN FOREWORD A gloss over a poetry collection titled Menopause by Azeez Akinwumi Sesan could suggest “transvestism”; but a closer study reveals the transsexual trend of feminism as a literary and political movement. The passion with which the poet handles the gender issues raised seems more obsessing than that of many female writers. The discourse on the excruciating experience of the female gender in a chauvinistic based culture like…