I think that if Baum would have intended to imply a message through The Wizard of Oz, he would not have spent so much time analyzing each character psychologically. The other theories seem too complex.
Works Cited Beebe, John. London: Routledge, Dighe, Ranjit S. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, Earle, Neil. Fricke, John. Greene, David L. The Oz Scrapbook. New York: Random, Shippensburg University. It was as if we felt what she was feeling at that moment; that there was a better place somewhere out there- somewhere over the rainbow. Viewers were able to relate to a character, whether it was the Scarecrow in need of a brain, the Tin Man in need of a heart, or the Cowardly Lion, in need of courage.
But The Wizard of Oz has been taken to another level. The next main character that is introduced in the story is the Tin Man. The Tin Man represents the factories and the factory workers during the time period of the s, when the depression took place. What the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion represent, together make up the American society during the time period of the late s, early s.
They all follow Dorothy in the story, to Oz. In The Wizard of Oz, characters like Glinda the Good Witch represent the mother archetype because she looks out for Dorothy, and Toto represent the trickster, because he is always creating problems.
But like a mother figure, Glinda lets Dorothy find out for herself what they slippers are for, and how important they are going to be to her. Watching the movie turn from black and white to Technicolor was amazing. But what if we were to read into it a little bit more? What if we analyzed what the actual characters represented, and what the plot of the story actually was talking about?
If we were to do this, we would then come up with different theories that are conveyed through The Wizard of Oz. This scene in the movie represents this idea. The Wicked Witch of the West is a representation of the Great Plains, and how hard it was for Americans to make a living there.
Dorothy is on a spiritual journey to find herself. Toto is the character that loves Dorothy no matter what, even though he brings bad karma to her. Green talks about how the Yellow Brick Road is the main path that Dorothy takes to find herself.
But did Baum really intend to write the story this way? Did he really mean to have all of these meanings encoded within the story? The story is written where each character or place, can actually be representing something during the time period which it was written in. The other theories seem to have over analyzed the story. I think that if Baum would have intended to imply a message through The Wizard of Oz, he would not have spent so much time analyzing each character philosophically, or psychologically.
The next main character who is introduced into the story which represents this, is the Tin Man. In The Wizard of Oz , characters like Glinda the Good Witch represent the mother archetype because she looks out for Dorothy, and Toto represent the trickster, because he is always creating problems.
I think that if Baum would have intended to imply a message through The Wizard of Oz , he would not have spent so much time analyzing each character psychologically. I have chosen to write about all of the hidden messages, and interpretations about the story. Some of these include political views, religious views, psychological views, etc. The only way that this is related to my abstracts is that I am going to be using the film The Wizard of Oz as one of my resources, just as I used a clip from the film Chicago for my abstracts.
The major focus of my essay is going to be discussing all of the different interpretations of The Wizard of Oz. For example, according to Henry M. Littlefield, The Wizard of Oz was a story about Populism, a philosophy that supported the rights of the people.
She kills one Wicked Witch by crash-landing a house on her, and kills another Margaret Hamilton by splashing her with water. Any water-soluble witch who leaves buckets of the stuff sitting around her castle is asking for trouble.
But in both cases, Dorothy is instantly hailed as a conquering heroine, just as the Wizard was when he touched down in Oz. The message is that people will march behind any authority figure who makes a splash, however undeserving they may be. The way The Wizard of Oz spirals into a fever dream of flying monkeys and green-faced guards is nothing if not surreal Credit: Alamy. It shares an outline with other key works of Depression-era culture, too.
And just one year earlier, Clark Kent — who, like Dorothy, was an orphan raised by elderly Kansas farmers — reinvented himself in the big city as Superman. Tom Joad finds that conditions are no better in California, and becomes a labour organiser. Some of these have been overtly political, some have been spiritual, some, um, monetary.
Here are seven of the most notable ones:. In this scenario, Dorothy represents the common citizen, the Tin Man is the industrial worker, the Scarecrow is a stand-in for farmers, and the Cowardly Lion is politician William Jennings Bryan seen by many at the time as being all talk and no action.
The green of the Emerald City represents the dollar. The Wicked Witch of the East represents bankers, and the Wicked Witch of the West — who, remember, gets killed by water — is drought. This theory, first put forth in the sixties by a high-school teacher named Henry Littlefield whose original essay you can read here , has since been debunked, yet still maintains a hold over many.
Religious Allegory Over the decades, The Wizard of Oz has been seen by many Christians and used often in sermons — see here for one example as an allegory of faith. Consider: The Yellow Brick Road is the path to enlightenment, with the characters encountering a variety of emblems of sin and temptation along the way toward the Emerald City, which is a kind of a heaven. In another reading, Oz itself can be heaven.
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