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    Wizard Of Oz Symbolism

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    In L. Frank Baum’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, color is given numerous roles to play. One of these roles, is the separation of the lands of Oz. Color is also used throughout this much of the novel for symbolizing a lot of things too. The colors grey, green, yellow, and silver are all used for these symbolisms. Each of these colors represents money, except grey. The book starts off in Kansas, a large grey state, with fields of grey crops, farmed by grey people, under the broiling

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    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz was written by L. Frank Baum, which utilized colors to symbolize how outstanding every region played a role in the novel. Baum associates colors of the national flag of different regions or countries. The author arranges distinct color schemes, which have symbolic meanings, and principles of a color theory. The color yellow was applied to describe The Yellow Brick Road, and the Yellow Winkie Country. The Munchkins Country was symbolized by the color

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    the classic film The Wizard of Oz. In the film, The Wizard of Oz, many characters experience feelings of emotion where they have too much, too little, and balanced feeling of emotion. All in all, several characters in the film The Wizard of Oz apply different feelings of an emotion, such as confidence, compassion, and courage throughout the story, resulting in showing Aristotle’s view of moral virtue as a plausible theory of a path to happiness. Throughout the film The Wizard of Oz, Aristotle’s view

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    In 1900, L. Frank Baum authored the famed ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ book. This was followed by being produced as a Broadway musical in 1902, and the motion picture release in 1939 (Zwissler, 2014). The popularity of this story is nearly unfathomable. According to the Library of Congress (1992), ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ is the most-watched film in motion picture history (in Zwissler, 2014). Scalise Sugiyama and Sugiyama (2011) suggest that stories such as these originated as oral warnings

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    Have you ever wondered why The Wizard of Oz books was so good. The author of these books, Frank L. Baum puts time and devotion into the details of the land of Oz. Baum wrote many different Oz books, but none of them were like the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a book about a girl named Dorothy who got traveled to the land of Oz with her dog Toto through a tornado. She eventually finds her way home. I believe the author’s style contributed to the literary work in a positive

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    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.Frank Baum has been an excessively popular fairy tale among the kids and adults. It has provided us with great plays and musical comedies. As most of us do not tend to relate a fairy tale with the political movements happening around us, Henry Littlefield was the first to write an outstanding article “The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism” in which he made a bold inference that the Wizard of Oz was a book that portrayed the United States of America as it entered the

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    Courageous; Am I? Am I Not? In the movie The Wizard Of Oz, Dorothy, the main character, befriends three other characters along her journey and each one of these characters have a wish. The scarecrow wants to have a brain, the tin Woodman wants to have a heart and last but not least , the cowardly lion wants to be courageous. That is where our word comes in: courageous . According to the American Dictionary , Courageous means not deterred by danger or pain: brave. Its origin is from the

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    The Wizard of Oz is a well known children’s novel written by Frank Baum in 1899. It later then became a movie in 1939 and still to this day is very popular. But what many people do not know is that behind both the movie and novel there lays a hidden message about the economic problems during the early 20th century. Baum was knowledgeable about what was going on in the 1990’s and put them into his work for a purpose. Over the years both the movie and the novel have stirred up multiple theories behind

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    Munchkins met them and the elderly but beautiful Witch of the North. Their house landed on the Wicked Witch of the East and killed her. She then given a silver slipper by the witch and told them that they could go back home if they ask to the powerful wizard of Oz who lived in the Emerald City. On her journey, she met a scarecrow who wishes to have brains, a Tin Woodman who ask to have a heart and a cowardly Lion whom admitted that he has no courage and wanted to ask the Oz. They have encountered several

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    In The Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le. Guin, the main character, Ged, is a young wizard who makes a pernicious mistake that takes a great deal of maturity to undo. To begin, Ogion, becomes Ged’s mentor and sends him to a meadow full of flowers to learn about the power that each name holds. Unfortunately, Ged is becoming impatient with Ogion, so he relocates to the school of Roke. Additionally, Ged learns magic vigorously, but overlooks their capabilities because he is overly-driven to defeat

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