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meteoric rise of the populist movement, L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was more than just an entertaining story for children. Full of multifaceted characters and symbolism, much of the book can be interpreted as an allegory for the political events at the time. About 40 years after the publication of the book, a movie version was created, however it contained many disparities from the original text. The movie form of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz washed away nearly all of Baum’s…

11th, the day that World War I ended also known as Armistice Day, today we call it Veterans Day (“History of Veterans Day”). The lack of information about real life allows the audience to disassociate themselves from reality and escape into the wonderful Land of…

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's property. A simple commandment has not been more drastically disobeyed than here in the United States. The United States of America, after its years of forced labor, pains of global warfare and serious of contractions of the American people, birthed the spawn of death to this nation's values: Consumerism. At its full adulthood in the 1960’s this Gahimeth of Greed and Self-interest,makes all the nation succumb and bow to this figures Idol. But three wise…

and uncle. She is soon whisked away by a tornado that strikes her home to the wonderful land of Oz. Dorothy 's only hope to get back home is to meet the wizard of Oz. Along the way Dorothy gains many friends and learns that she, and her friends, already have what they need to do great things. This may be the most predominant message of the movie, but there are several others intertwined into the film, some not as wonderful as the land of Oz. What seems to be a movie about…

manned flight on November 20, 1783 achieved by the Montgolfier brothers, the idea of observing landscapes, geographic locations, and enemy movements has never been far from the minds of aviation pioneers. As Fulgence Marion describes in his text “Wonderful Ballon Ascents; or the Conquest of the Skies:” “Scarcely had the first ascents astonished the world, than the more adventurous spirits began to use the discovery;” as elaborated by Marion the first use was for the purposes of reconnaissance…

meets the popular and spoiled Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, at Shiz College. Elphaba is privately tutored in her magical skills, so eventually the headmistress of the college sends her and Glinda to the Emerald City, in order to help the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. However, the…

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…

To begin, the settings portrayed in the wonderful wizard of oz are important yet often overlooked. The book begins in Kansas where Dorothy Gale and her family resides. Kansas is depicted as a 'great gray prairie'. Everything in Kansas is perceived as gray, therefore representing oneness because there is no differentiation, there is no beautiful lie hiding the truth in that place. There is only one place where there is only truth, and that is nirvana. Throughout the novel, the conflict is that…

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…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum, who favored bimetallism greatly focused on the primary matter, that being the Free Silver movement, which caused a great impact to the nation.The Wizard of Oz is an allegory of the political and economic environment of the Populist era because it resembles a story that can be interpreted to reveal a political movement through the characters,setting, and certain items and main ideas that were displayed in the book. In the Wizard of Oz a…