Lyman Frank Baum, more commonly known as Frank Baum, was an American author generally known for his astonishing novel, “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ”. However, Baum wrote many other intriguing pieces, including playwrights, journals, and children’s books. Baum was born and raised in Chittenango, New York and had a particularly comfortable upbringing due to his father owning a barrel factory. Frank Baum never earned a high school diploma; he instead spent a majority of his early adulthood pursuing his interests in writing and acting. It was not until 1899 that Baum made his first major appearance with “Father Goose-His Book”. The following year, Baum found himself in the limelight with a captivating novel titled “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ”. Baum’s …show more content…
You would have to decipher each line of content to truly understand what the author was trying to get across to his audience. Both stories include a vast amount of symbolism that may or may not be clearly portrayed to most everyone. Both “A Modest Proposal” and “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ” focus on some sort of social class. “A Modest Proposal” mainly emphasizes the lower class as the story discusses children and parents lacking jobs and being unable to support themselves, while “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ” focuses on the middle to upper class, as OZ is portrayed as a wealthy individual. The social classes discussed in both stories may be different, however, if the readers were to scrutinize both stories, they would be further cultivated about two diverse social …show more content…
The scarecrow claims he has no brain, yet when Dorothy is captured, he is the one who creates the plan to help her escape. The lion says he has no courage, yet he is remarkably brave when he must fight off the witches’ guards to save Dorothy. Dorothy was so eager to return home to Kansas she went through desperate measures to satisfy the wizard enough for him to help her, when she had the power to go home by herself the entire time. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” has brought joy to people all over the world for many generations. As we grow older, the story enhances its meaning from a story about a girl wanting to return home, to a political, informal, brilliant novel. Many people would not hesitate to call Frank Baum a genius for creating this story, and I would not disagree. The amount of hidden meanings this story conveys is breathtaking, and it can open your eyes to many situations and make you look at them in an entirely different way. I believe people study these details because “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” fills such a large space in our imagination, and as we grow older and are able to comprehend more, we wonder if this movie is a part of our imagination, or if this story is based on true and relatable events from a century ago, that could essentially happen at this point in
The narrative begins with Dorothy, who lives on a farm in a black and white setting presuming the absence of vitality and the insufficiency of a place that was in poverty at the time. However, when Dorothy is picked up by a twister and wakes up in the Land of Oz, she finds herself in a completely opposite environment full of life, beauty, and color filled with new found opportunities. On her quest to Emerald City, Dorothy is presented with a few characters who are The Tin Man, The Cowardly Lion, and The Scarecrow who all feel like they need something more to complete them and they all seek out the “all powerful” wizard to obtain the things they want. The items they yearn for were a brain, a heart, and courage. Three things that we learn to utilize with experiences we go through. The characters eventually realize that they have always had what they have been longing for after the many obstacles they came through on their journey. In the end, Dorothy says, “If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't
The article briefly goes over The Wizard of Oz, both the film and the book, and discusses how they fit into Campbell’s hero’s journey. Emerson summarizes Campbell’s idea of the hero’s journey for the reader, then splits Dorothy’s journey into three phases. The first phase is her travels on the yellow brick road where in the film she meets the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, and in the book Dorothy and her companions overcome natural obstacles. The second phase begins when they meet the Wizard of Oz in the Emerald City, who sets them on a trial before they can receive their respective gifts. The pinnacle of this trial is the face off with the Wicked Witch of the West, where she is defeated when Dorothy throws a bucket of water on her
Grapes of Wrath and It's a Wonderful Life Following the relatively prosperous era nicknamed the "Roaring Twenties" came the Great Depression. Unemployment skyrocketed and good times were hard to find. In the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" we see the transformation from stability to utter chaos. With World War I freshly over, there was joy and celebration to welcome American 'boys' back home.
The films Young Frankenstein and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest can be viewed as a critical analysis of society’s issues and dysfunctions in the form of satire and parody using humor. While Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks cinematic version of the gothic novel, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, uses parody in the form of Horatian satire, which is achieved through gentle ridicule and using a tone that is indulgent, tolerant, amused and witty. The film One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel, uses a form of satire called Juvenalian satire which is demonstrated in the form of attacks on vice and error with contempt and indignation. Horatian satire will produce a humor response from the reader instead of anger or indignation as Juvenalian satire. Juvenalian satire, in its realism and its harshness, is in strong contrast to Horatian satire (Kent and Drury).
...lf-confidence. The Scarecrow was the one who believed that he had no brain even with him coming up with brilliant and clever solutions to the many problems that they faced on their journey. The tin man believed that he didn’t have a heart, but cries when bad things are brought upon the creatures they come to encounter. The lion believed that he had no courage even though he was the one brave enough to continue the journey, he always stated how brave he was and pushed forward even when the others did not want to. A famous quote from Carl L. Bankston III of Salem Press stated that "These three characters embody the classical human virtues of intelligence, caring, and courage, but their self-doubts keep them from being reduced to mere symbols of these qualities” (). This is an important quote because it highlights the self-confidence that Baum explored in his story.
...s. The Scarecrow represents farmers, agricultural workers, ignorant of many city things but honest and able to understand things with a little education. The Tin Man, He represents the industrial worker whose heart has been torn out by the evils of factory work and industrialism. W.J. Bryan embodied the role of the cowardly lion. Bryan was a very loud and booming public speaker but was viewed as a coward because he did not support the Spanish-American war. OZ is the US. The emerald city is Washington D.C. filled with greenbacks and the wizard is the president. Dorothy and her “party” follow the yellow brick way, or gold standard, to find the wizard and fix her problem. When all along they way to fix her problem of how to get back home was to tap her ruby red shoes which were silver thus in the original book thus representing the Populists push for a silver standard.
Frank Baum had a specific purpose, some were used to set up the tone and setting for different parts of the novel such as the colors used to describe Kansas and Oz. Colors were also used to represent the different people in Oz, not everyone in Oz were alike and were different from the way they acted, lived or the characteristic which defined them. This use of color also helped to set up an underlying theme of corruption and greed represented by the journey and the group of travelers headed up by Dorothy, who when she reaches Oz is driven by self interest as opposed to later when she wants to make sure that everyone benefits from the death of the wicked witch. Finally colors where used as representation of ideas from representing joy, death, and danger, whenever a color was used to describe something it represented that character or setting tying together the underlying themes of greed, corruption and social
“A Modest Proposal” was written in 1729 by a satirical author by the name of Jonathan Swift. Swift studied at the University of Oxford and was also know for his popular writing in Gulliver’s Travel. The purpose for his satire “A Modest Proposal” was to enlighten the citizens of Ireland about their hardship and suffering. He informed them about their scares of food, money, and property, but provided a possible solution to their problem. To persuade the people Swift adopts a comforting and friendly tone to his audience for the people to react to his solution.
The Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie because of the interesting adventure that Dorothy goes on and all of the challenges that she faced. One interesting fact that I learned while trying write this essay I learned that they had to put Jell-O on the horses in the Emerald City scene, but it is really choppy because the horses tried to lick the Jell-O off of their hair. “A place where there isn 't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It 's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It 's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain...” (Garland) You don’t really think about it when you are watching the movie, but this movie goes right along with Aristotle’s Poetics in film. Aristotle talks about unities of time and place, how the protagonist starts high end ends low, and it gives you pity and fear towards one of the
In The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, every area or type of person has there own
The first major connection in The Wizard of Oz was the Scarecrow. The scarecrow was used to symbolize the farmers and their struggles in America in the 18th century (Foner, Eric 636-640). The scarecrow made of straw was vulnerable with no brain. The scarecrow had little control over the circumstances he was facing just as the farmers did in the 18th century. The western farmers had issues with overproduction and when prices fell farmers suffered ended up losing their farms (Foner, Eric
Alexander Doty’s interpretation of the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz is very interesting. Instead of just taking the movie as it comes, Doty analyzes The Wizard of Oz from a queer perspective. While Dorothy’s ruby red high heeled slippers are commonly considered a symbol for sexual power, the Wicked Witch of the West’s broomstick is also a fetishized object that serves a sexual purpose. Instead of being the symbol for heteronormative sexual desires, the Wicked Witch’s broomstick is a symbol for dyke power (Doty, p. 142). When compared with Glinda, the Wicked Witch is said to be the “more positive of the two images of powerful womanhood” (Doty, p. 144). The Wicked Witch is a dyke, butch character that represents the non-normative female desire and power and breaks away from heteronormative views
Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth land of oz book written by children's author l. Frank baum published on July 10, 1920. It is the last book of the original Oz series, which was later continued by other authors. Like most of the Oz books, the plot features a journey through some of the remoter regions of Oz; though in this case the pattern is doubled: Dorothy and Ozma travel to stop a war between the Flatheads and Skeezers; then Glinda and a cohort of Dorothy's friends set out to rescue them. The book was dedicated to Baum's second son, Robert Stanton Baum.Princess Ozma and Dorothy travel to an obscure corner of the Land of Oz, in order to prevent a war between two local powers, the Skeezers and
In conclusion, the protagonist of The Wizard of Oz Dorothy Gale, is initially unsatisfied with her life on her Aunt and Uncle’s farm and dreams of a foreign land over the rainbow, where there are no worries or disasters. Although as the story progresses, Victor Fleming incorporates a wide range of
In this essay, I examine what Zipes means by institutionalised, define what makes a fairy tale and evaluate how different versions of Little Red Riding Hood reflect the social ideology of the period.