Brief thoughts and reactions to Chapter 3
After reading the chapter, the opening scene is vastly different from the movie! In the movie, Dorothy ran away from home and was caught in the cyclone while looking for her aunt and uncle, not standing there in the doorway watching as it formed. Neither did she simply lie down during the storm. A piece of the window, if I am recalling correctly, broke off and hit her in the head, causing her to fall down and witness flying animals, as well as family members, outside her window. The Land of Oz and Dorothy 's time there, is all real in the book, not just an elaborate dream caused from unconsciousness. According to Baum, Oz is just an undiscovered continent that is hidden and surrounded by a harsh desert. One major difference is the shoe color. The ruby red slippers were referred to as being silver in this original excerpt from the story. Also after consulting with parts of the movie, I saw no reference of the Tin Man’s story. I surely don’t remember the story of a limb
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“The archetype is probably Jung’s most difficult concept. Archetypes are inherited predispositions to respond to the world in certain ways. They are primordial images, representations of the instinctual energies of the collective unconscious” (Frager). The archetypes in Jung’s analysis are the shadow, anima, animus and self. Beginning with the shadow, this to be a person of the same sex but possessing different traits. The Wicked Witch represents the shadow, the dark or unconscious part of the personality that the conscious ego tries to ignore. Along with the witch, her heinous flying monkeys could be categorized into this archetype. The Wicked Witch of the West is a dark, controlling presence who seeks to dominate and control. Any person seen throughout the world could be symbolized by the witch as a foreboding character and one who thought all was right with their plan of action, hence a universal
In 1939, Victor Fleming made a film version of L. Frank Baum’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” However, both the novel and the film focuses or touches on the same moral, it features the protagonist Dorothy who resides in Kansas the farm, along with her aunt Em and uncle Henry as well as her dog Toto. Both Baum’s novel and Fleming’s 1939 film adaptation the setting is in Kansas which is described as a small farm which Dorothy lives in which in Baum’s novel is picturized as gloomy, grey and dull. Throughout Fleming’s adaptation of Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” there are a number of differences which presents itself in a direct manner on screen as well as similarities. The variety of changes in the film’s adaptation tends to take away from the meaning of L. Frank Baum’s depiction in his novel to a certain level and extent.
The role gender holds in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not one many were familiar with at the time it was written. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz reverses the accepted gender roles of its time, women taking control, even helping men in times of need. This idea is depicted throughout the entire novel, affecting almost every character introduced. This novel essentially questions and challenges the accepted beliefs on the roles of gender in the society at that time, showing how things would be if roles were different. With this, through a description of the characters, you can see who was empowered by Baum and who held an inferior role.
Frank L. Baum begins The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in Kansas, a land devoid of color and life, to show Dorothy’s dismal world. Her Aunt Em, who had once been a beautiful woman, has become as colorless as the gray and dried vegetation on her farm. When Dorothy is caught in a cyclone, she is transported to a colorful and lively world, but she desperately tries to return to the colorless farm. Inherently Dorothy knows that home is where one’s loved ones live not some beautiful illusion. However, on her journey home Dorothy becomes enticed by the illusion of the prosperous Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy, along with the friends who join her, willingly follow the Great and Terrible Wizard rather than looking within themselves to find their
If you want to find meaning in a work, you must first understand the context in which it was created. One example of this is The Wizard of Oz. To someone without any understanding of the political situation in the 1890s, it seems like little more than a confusing and silly, but ultimately enjoyable, romp through a fantasy world, perhaps with a parable about knowing who you are or some such. On the other hand, if you compare the story with the monetary politics of its era, its underlying message becomes harder to ignore.
I have watched the Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics of Beauty and the Beast where I talk about the films use of archetypes. Maria I believe is the archetype of the innocent because she was happy with not getting anything at all from her fathers trip to the market. The father is to possibly be the archetype of the caregiver because he wants to get his daughter Maria a present. The father also wants to protect her from the beast after he stole from the beast by giving up his life. The beast is the archetype is the lover because he just wants someone to love him and marry him. I want to say that this fairy tell complicates archetypal because at the start of the story the beast appears to be the evil villain or the bad guy but we later learn that
Another interesting point regarding the Wizard is the duality that exists between the character of the Wizard and the other characters he portrays in the film. Frank Morgan, the actor that plays the Wizard, also plays the parts of the gatekeeper, cabbie, and palace guard within the city of Oz. Coincidence or not, this duality presents an interesting viewpoint regarding the Wizard’s need for control within his city. By acting as the gatekeeper to the Emerald City, the Wizard can regulate who enters the walls, thus ensuring that those who do enter are easily susceptible to his ongoing deception. When Dorothy tells the gatekeeper that she wishes to see the Wizard, he seems frazzled and replies by saying “Nobody can see the great Oz, nobody’s ever seen the great Oz! Even I’ve never seen him!” (0:59:02). The only reasonable explanation to this strange response is that the select few that enter the city are chosen based upon the premises that they will succumb to
An archetype has a common and recurring representation in a particular human culture or entire human race. It can be a character, a theme, a symbol, or a setting. An archetype can shape the structure and function of literary work. An example of an archetype as a character is a mother figure. This character can be represented as a Fairy Godmother, seen in “Cinderella,” who guides and directs a child. The trickster is a recurrent figure or archetype in world mythologies, folklore, and literature. A trickster is seen to be a mysterious or roguish figure that makes up for physical weakness with cunning and subversive humor. Some examples of tricksters are, Ditto from the Pokemon anime, Bugs Bunny found on TV shows, and Puss in Boots who is mainly found in literature.
It utilized a new coloring process that was invented by Technicolor called the number 4 process. Jon Lewis writes,” Finally in 1932, Kalmus introduced Technicolor process No. 4 (also known as three-strip Technicolor), a three-color system that would become the industry standard in color film production for the next twenty years.” This new color process allowed the film to come alive and draw the audience in for a more captivating experience. The Wizard of Oz plays the color film, which was not a standard of the time, to its fullest potential by contrasting color with black and white. The films shows the real world, which for this film is Kansas, in black and white and, the film shows the mystical Land of Oz in full color. Carol Billman writes,” Seeing is believing in Oz. In the film, spectacular vistas appear, one after another, before the travelers. . . The cumulative effect of these vistas is that the viewers of the film do – as readers of the novel do not – have a point of view. We see things along with the four travelers, and we share in particular Dorothy’s awe at the foreign and marvelous things she sees.” This contrast helps the audience experience an escape from the bleak and dreadful Great Depression and provides them with the colorful and perfect Land of Oz where all your dreams come true by following the yellow brick road. This Hollywood trick of contrasting two opposites with the use of color
At the start of her journey Dorothy meets the scarecrow and helps him down allowing him to “feel like a new man” (Baum 20). She meets the tin woodman to whom she provided “great comfort” (Baum 29) when she put oil on his joints. In contrast meeting the lion did not go as smoothly when she meets the lion, Dorothy is afraid but as soon as the lion runs after Toto Dorothy immediately sticks up for her small dog. Dorothy exclaims “don’t you dare to bit Toto! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a big beast like you, to bite a poor little dog!” (Baum 35) showing the change in Dorothy from a small scared girl into brave girl who knows she must protect what she loves. They all have the goal to reach Oz to ask the Wizard for a brain, a heart, courage and a way to get back home. Dorothy made friends that she will never forget about even as she goes back to Kansas. Throughout the journey it is evident that her three friends already have the traits they desire but do not realise it. Since Dorothy is an orphan and lives with her aunt and uncle with no other children around to play with accept her dog Toto. She is grateful for the new friends she acquired because without them she would not have been able to find her way home. Similarly Dorothy shows her bravery when the Wicked Witch takes away her shoe Dorothy refuses to let her take something that is hers
The Wizard of Oz was thought to be the "First Color film" ever. Although that is actually not true. I interviewed a person who was just a kid when the movie came out and he told me that the experiance in the theater was as he described it "Shocking".. So what role did color play in the novel... Well Color played a role in every aspect of this Story. For example my favorite character was the "Good Witch" which had colors of Red,white and blue. The good witch was symbolic for the United States.
In L. Frank Baum's Fantasy book " The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz", The author uses colors as a role in the play to describe the mood. Throughout the book, L. Frank Baum uses color to symbolize many different scenes in the story. Baum uses the colors grey, blue and white to symbolize misery, peace and purity.
For this fiction, the imagination is an indispensable element. The Wizard of Oz is an imaginative novel that shapes a magical and distinctive world of imagination. The article analyzes the three wonderful aspects: distinctive experiences adventures, wonderful creatures and anthropomorphic expressions. The authors use different colors to describe different cities.
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 film directed by Victor Fleming, which follows Dorothy Gale on her journey through the magical land of Oz. Dorothy is swept away from a farm in Kansas to the land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return to her home in Kansas. The director, uses a number cinematic techniques such as camera angles, lighting, colour and dialogue to portray a central theme of There’s no place like home.
The 1900 children’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L.Frank Baum is about a Kansas girl named Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto journey home. Dorothy and Toto got swept into the Land of Oz by a cyclone. Dorothy meets a living Scarecrow, a man made entirely of tin, and a Cowardly lion while trying to get to the Emerald City hoping that the Great Oz can help her return home. Oz advises Dorothy and her new friends to destroy the Wicked Witch of the West in order to find a way home.
The Wizard of Oz is a fiction story written by L. Frank Baum. The story has two main settings. The first setting is, Dorothy’s home, the Kansas prairies. The prairies are described as dry and gray. The second setting is the land of Oz. Oz is opposed from Kansas, it is colorful, bright, and full of joy. The Wizard of Oz has a grate theme or message behind the story. The message is that we all have good qualities in us, but it is up to us to use them.