The Wizard Of Oz Literary Analysis

Judy garland who is purportedly named Dorothy dale in the move the wizard of Oz is the main protagonist in most of the Oz novels. Frank Baum created the fictional character who has been idolized in the American movie culture because of the character she has played in most movies, books, animations, games and on TV. At first she appeared in the novel the wonderful wizard of Oz which was created in 1900 and thereafter, she was able to reappear in most of the sequels showing her importance in various adaptations, notably, in the 1939 film named the wizard of Oz (Pfefferman, 2013). in the movie, the wizard of Oz, she acts as a young orphaned girl from one of the farms in Kansas which was owned by uncle henry and aunt Em. Life in the farm is considered to be composed of hard work and it provided little opportunity for Dorothy to have excitement in the farm. She is able to express her desires of exploring what was beyond Kansas through the use of a wishful song of what might be lying at the other end of the rainbow. One of the richest people in the town gets a permit of obtaining her dog, Toto, and she tries to save her life by running away. She changes her mind and decided to go back home when a tornado drops from the sky and everything changes radically in the movie.

Humans develop in societies with rules, order and government, but humans are not perfect, they have many deficiencies so do the societies they live in. When a group of schoolboys land on a tropical island, Ralph takes on the role of leader by bringing all of the boys together and organizing them. He first explains “There aren’t any grownups. We shall have to look after ourselves.”(p.33), this brings up the question if the boys will have prosperity or will they succumb to the evil on the island. At first the young boys start being successful and civilized, but chaos soon overruns them and evil starts to lurk over the island.The fictional story of the group of British schoolboys stranded on an island and the decisions they make, relates back

Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. It is about british schoolboys who are stranded on an island after their plane is shot down. They are on the island with no adult supervision. Their group is civilized but turns to savagery. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the characters of Ralph, Jack, and Roger to symbolize that there are violence, evil, savagery, and good that exist in every society.

Although many things are stated outright in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the book is rich with symbolism and subtext. The story starts with British school boys being stranded on an island after escaping a threat of nuclear war. The boys elect fair-haired Ralph as their leader, but Jack, a fiery choirmaster of some of the boys, is jealous and the story quickly goes downhill from there, leading to aggression, mayhem, and murder. Throughout the novel, there is also a mysterious and imaginary beast that haunts the minds of the younger boys. Lord of the Flies has many details, many of which are symbols or have implied meaning. One of the most important examples of subtext is Simon, the strange, ethereal boy who aligns himself with

Few novels encapsulate such a unique view of the world as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. While the majority of the United States was in turmoil (the Cold War and the Vietnam War), Ken Kesey was working in a psychiatric hospital. Based on his experience as a night aide, Kesey wrote his first novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1962.

In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey uses machine imagery to develop the theme that society forces people to conform. The novel is able to portray machine imagery and conformity by using the Patients, Combine, and Bromden’s Dream.

Freedom can be obtained through the defiance of society’s expectations to find a sense of individuality. Ken Kesey’s ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ is a novel originally published in 1962, which centres on the lives of patients in a psychiatric hospital. Symbolism, one of the many techniques, was incorporated into the novel, to convey the main ideas of freedom, and society versus individual.

"Follow the yellow brick road" - The Wizard of Oz. Although society is more familiar with the 1939 version it was in fact the fifth remake of the 1910 silent film. In fact the original film was actually based off of a 1902 stage musical of the same content which was based off of the original book written by Lyman Frank Baum. The release of the movies 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ' and 'Oz the Great and Powerful ' is a 103 years difference. In that amount of time this movie has been remade 57 times and counting. Even though the newer version of the Wizard of Oz isn 't a remake of the original it 's more of a prequel , both the original and the new version were interesting as you get a different perspective because the focus was on different aspects, the techniques used were drastically different and the characters play roles that are unexpected.

In their pieces, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Dead Poet’s Society, author Ken Kesey, and Tom Schulman, respectively, adopt setting, plot, and contrasting characterisation to explore the central theme of a struggle for independence. Both Kesey and Schulman set their stories in exaggerated institutions, wherein the internal community is repressed by overbearing authority figures. However, due to their varying media formats, the portrayal, imagery, and symbolism of the setting differs. The plot in both the novel and the film is parallel as both centre a wildcard entering the microcosm that is the institutions. The figure preaches freedom, however, disaster strikes, and at the conclusion of the novel the community regresses back to normal. Finally, contrasting characterisation is used in the same manner – the protagonist and the community are contrasted. The

Throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey often uses fog as a symbol. Although fog may have been used as a symbol in other literary works, they do not hold a candle to the fog’s significance in Kesey’s piece. While reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, two major interpretations can be made for the symbolism of fog. For one, fog is symbolic of the waste that our mechanized society produces, and it pollutes the way we live naturally. In one instance, Chief and his inmates were asleep while the Combine were inspecting the ward (Kesey 90). During this time, Chief was afraid of them, the fog, and the mechanized society in general. On the other hand, fog symbolizes the fog of the mind -- after all, chief is schizophrenic -- and it

    Throughout time authors have used symbolism to express a greater meaning in simple words because it allows readers to connect the real world to what they are reading in an abstract way, like philosophers using the dove to represent peace and fire to represent ferocity; in To Kill A Mockingbird  , Harper Lee uses symbolism to make a point about maturity in particular when Miss Maudie gives Jem cake, when scout tries to learn innocence and when scout tries to learn how to observe a situation from someone else's perspective.

In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, there are many different themes expressed in many different ways. For example, one of the of the most important themes throughout the story is courage. Courage shows up many times throughout the story in its six main forms, physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual and moral courage. These forms of courage help create a better understanding of the characters as well as change the characters as time passes.

While the novel itself is portrayed as an odd depiction of the struggle of power in an unrealistic setting, there is a purpose for the information included in the novel, which is full of symbolism. The novel by Ken Kesey was written around the children’s rhyme previously stated and symbolizes the plot. The beginning of the rhyme is displayed as “Ting. Tingle, tangle, tremble toes, she’s a good fisherman, catches hens, puts them in pens” which also depicts the novel because the fisherman is Nurse Ratched, who “catches hens”, or mentally ill patients and “puts them in pens” by incarcerating them in the psychiatric hospital. The rhyme then continues with “… three geese in a flock, one flew east, one flew west, and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.”

“There is no place like home,” Which could not be more true for the most of us, is a famous quote from The Wizard Of OZ, a movie about a girl who finds herself in a world different from hers, wishing to return to her farm in Kansas. Along the way, she discovers many things about herself that she never thought she was capable of. Although her time in the Land of OZ was just a dream, it sends powerful messages. Not only that there is no place like home, but that in our dreams we realize who we are. The outside world never sees who we truly are or what makes us happy. We feel a need to conform to society and act how other people act, so that we don’t stand out. Why wouldn’t people express themselves for who they truly are? Bird Clarkson, a man on a mission, seems to ask a similar question. Clarkson, a faculty member in the Communication and ARTS Department at Central Michigan University, entered a piece in the ArtPrize 2016 competition in Grand Rapids (MI) named The Wizard of Ozomoness. It is an interpretive dance play of sorts that is meant to get kids or people alike to express themselves and let them know that their dreams can come true. The piece we chose was the backdrop of the Emerald City that is meant for this play and we evaluated how its appearance and representation of a dream world further emphasized the meaning of the piece. We proved this by interpreting its physical attributes, with interviews with people observing the piece and with a

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, although she did not know, already had what she wanted the whole time. “Everything you were looking for was right there with you the entire time.” This is something that the Wizard told Dorothy. Throughout the whole story, Dorothy was looking for a way to return to Kansas, little did she know, the solution was on her feet. “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I shouldn’t look any farther than my own backyard.” This is something that Dorothy said. What she means is that what she was trying to look for the whole time, was not far away from her at all. So Dorothy is saying that you do not need to go on a huge journey just to find your dream/wish. “You always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn