Examples Of Allegory In The Wizard Of Oz

When we think about the Wizard of Oz, the first thing that comes to our mind is a children book. But could it be more than this? The Wizard of Oz is and allegory of the US’s society in the 1890’, with representation such as economics, social types or a politic movement.

All the landscape’s elements in the Wizard of Oz can be related to the U. S’s economics life of the 1890’s. For a fact, Dorothy owns two accessories that represent the economy: she possesses the West witch’s silver shoes and the gold hat of the witch of the East. The mix of gold and silver is an allusion to the silverites, the people who wanted to use silver and gold as an economic standard. The Emerald city is also an allegory to the US’s economy of the 1890’s : the Emerald city is green, so are the dollar bills, resultantly, the Emerald City is an allusion to the money that, at this time, was regrouped in one place, at the east of the U.S. Also, the golden brick road is leading to

Baum uses them to criticize the society and its leaders. He uses the wicked witch of the east to represent the vicious politicians that lived in New York in the east of the United States, to make the book a satire he makes fun of the politicians. Although, the munchkins are slaves of the bad witch as the common people were to the politicians without even knowing it. The writer is criticizing our society through the characters by saying that farmers are slaves of the politicians and do not have enough power to rebel. But some characters can represent multiple social types as for the flying monkeys who can be an allusion to salves for their servitude or to Indians for their acceptance to the white’s way of life. Flying monkeys can also be an allegory to immigrants, because they are treated badly as the flying monkeys are, or to soldiers that follow orders without thinking. Along with characters who strongly represent social types, political means are also present in the