Introduction {{These titles are not necessary}} In the Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, L. Frank Baum, used plenty of imagery and color to describe and label a lot of things/places. Which really can help the reader understand what it represents or means. By that being said, the role of colors in the wonderful Wizard Of Oz, are one of the most important things to look for and pay attention to. For example blue, yellow, red, and green. Which they all represent the colors of the cities that they have gone to. Basically, color is always a good thing to focus on. Symbolism Symbolism, the representation of objects and ideas through the use of symbols, often a more abstract concept. It gives a deeper meaning meaning to a text. The usual component of the
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Could you ever imagine if The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum didn’t have a yellow brick road or an Emerald City? The colors chosen are significant and give the story a deeper meaning. Three colors that stand out in the beginning, middle and the end of the novel are gray, yellow and green. In the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum’s use of color is symbolic by associating distinct colors with specific settings and characters.
The colors change as the story evolves and defines turns in the story such as when her dress turns white when she searches for the wicked witch and helps psychologically associate Dorothy as being good, protected and pure for her conflict against the wicked, good vs evil. Her dress is blue in the beginning which communicates loyalty and purpose. Once she reaches Oz its a pretty silk green dress. Green signifies growth. Additionally the closer to Oz Dorothy and her friends get- the more dark and dreary & scary their environment becomes. The forest before they reach Oz represents obstacles, fear, uncertainty and boundaries. The goggles required to enter Oz represent visual trickery and the color green represents growth. The color usage is essential for The Wizard of Oz to create it's appearance verses reality and good verses evil essence and essential to the ability to relate to evolution of Dorothy's experiences and lesson to learn. The color usage in significant symbolism is the driving force of the story in terms of interpretation of details, how they relate together and the relateability the story offers the
In the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, color is very important throughout the story, it gives good imagery for the story. Imagery gives the reader a sense of vision. Imagery is good when it comes to making a story, for example it gives the reader a sense of what the character is like. For Example, when the Author, L. Frank Baum, detailed the Glinda, the Good witch's clothes she was detailed with bright colors and that gives the reader a picture of what she is like without even saying she is good. Color is used to create more of detailed view of what the characters are and how they are different from each other.
L. Frank Baum uses his story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a metaphor to compare William Jennings Bryan to the Cowardly Lion through his use of symbolism and the the striking parallel of events throughout his story to those in the populist era. Because Baum was influenced by this time period, it is logical that he would use his characters to symbolize this movement. Henry M. Littlefield explains the connections and references of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to the Populist Era. For example, The Wicked Witch of the East represents the eastern industrialists and bankers, the munchkins are the people who are being controlled by them, the Scarecrow is the stereotype of a western farmer, The Tin Woodman symbolizes dehumanized industrial
Colors are an essential part of the world around us. They can convey messages, expressing that which words do not. Gentle blue tones can calm a person and bright yellows can lift the spirits. If an artist is trying to express sorrow or death he often uses blacks blues, and grays basically he uses dreary colors. Without one word, a driver approaching a red traffic light knows to stop. Colors are representative of many things. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism throughout as a major device in thematic and character development. He uses colors to symbolize the many different intangible ideas in the book. Throughout the book characters, places, and objects are given "life" by colors, especially the more
In the novel the wizard of Oz author L. frank Baum goes to extreme lengths to explain and paint a visual image of every color from every scene in the book. From Dorothy’s blue and white dress to explain the shining green city of Oz and how it blinds you nothing in the book is left without color and detailed descriptions. This sort of description is done not only to provide the reader with a visual image to match the description of the character. It is also being used as a sort of symbolism for each character. The colors not only represent the style of each character but also their personality.
Colors can play a significant role, in the ways of understanding life, art, literature etc. While specifically sinking into the subject of literature, it is fairly easy to see the significance of colors. In the novel, the Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum colors or mentions all around the novel. The colors act as a roll in this novel and when analyzing the color's role in this novel it leads to see what it symbolizes. The symbolization of colors helps understand what role it plays, and the role colors play are; realizing the themes and help spotting the importance, and development of the characters. The colors play an important role in this novel by helping develop the theme characters.
Many colors are used to symbolize or embody different objects or people in the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. For instance, colors like grey, green, blue, silver, and yellow have different meanings.
With the creation of color technology in the late 1800’s, it is starting to become apart of the filming world. Technicolor helps to liven up the image and during The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , color does just that. Color brings beauty to the world of Oz, whereas in Kansas it is gray and lacks excitement. Color represents Dorothy’s personality at home in Kansas.
L. Frank Baum uses colors throughout The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. When he uses colors it usually to describe the setting or people in the novel. Colors can also show emotions. Each land Dorthy went to had different colors and amazed her. Frank symbolized the people with color and places. This made the story interesting . {{Your thesis statement needs to be more specific.}}
Did you ever notice how many colors there are in the wizard of oz? Baum was influenced by many colors and when he decided to write the wizard of oz he used many colors. The colors themselves don't actually mean anything, but he uses certain colors and the way he uses them symbolize certain things. You would never really notice that the good witch symbolizes the American flag. She is wearing a white dress has very blue eyes and her hair was rich red. Baum incorporated color in the novel and it became something enchanting.
In the novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" color plays a massive role on how the reader feels. Color is used to show how what kind of person a character is. It is also used to create a mood based on the setting.
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.
In the movie the Wizard of Oz, at the very end the good Witch had said “she has had the power all along, she just had to learn it for herself”. The Witch is talking about the lesson with all of the Magic. If she had told Dorothy right when she put on those slippers that if you tap them together, anything can happen, Dorothy would not have believed her. Dorothy had to learn for herself that there is magic in that world and she needed to learn what it was like and what to do for it. One example of that world being magic is all of the talking objects and animals! The Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin man would not be able to talk if she was in Kansas, but in the world of Oz they can. Another way that magic is a huge part in this movie is the red