Wizard Of Oz Archetypes

The Wizard of Oz is a classic known by all. The plot is fairly simple. Poor bored Dorothy is sick of her normal boring life on her Aunt and Uncles farm in Kansas and decides to run away to a more exciting life. Her plans are changed when she meets a fortune teller who convinces her to go back home. Unfortunately, as she is headed back home a horrible storm starts and she and her dog Toto are blown away, along with her house. When she lands, she comes outside to see that she has landed on a person with red shoes. She is met by tiny people and a witch called Glinda who tells her that she has landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy tells Glinda she wants to go home, and Glinda tells her if she follows the yellow brick road she will end up in the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz can help get her home.

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.

How can such an evil entity appear to be so innocent and pure? In Clive Staples Lewis’s novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the characters are deceiving individuals who appear to seem angelic and harmless but in reality are evil. The true colors of the individuals are revealed and good overcomes evil. Lewis portrays the archetype trickster and the archetype, good versus evil, to convey to his readers the betrayal placed in the novel. In the novel Lewis conveys the archetype, trickster, to show how individuals portray themselves as something they are not, to not only deceive, but to also get their way. Lewis wrote, “…in the middle of the sled sat a very different person- a great lady [the White Witch], taller than any woman that Edmund

And examples like these is what made the use of Technicolor in The Wizard of Oz so incredible. Filmmakers, actors, and film lovers across different spectrums were being exposed to how Technicolor made certain scenes in films come alive. The use of vivid color added artistic value to cinema. Color also represented many different vivid ideas and thoughts. And color was an important aspect in The Wizard of Oz. imagine if the yellow brick road was a plain gray or if the Emerald City never sparkle with mystifying colors of green. We would have experience a completely different Wizard of Oz.

According to Film Art, it consists of “setting, costume and makeup, lighting, and staging” (Bordwell 115). In “The Wizard of OZ” these aspects of Mise-en-Scene all come together to make up a spectacular viewing experience. Created in 1939 and directed by Victor Fleming, “The Wizard of Oz” was one of the first successful Technicolor films. Since this film was shot primarily in color, it gave the directors and costume designers many new opportunities to use color in ways that they hadn’t been able to before. The main point I will be demonstrating is how the filmmakers effectively used color and costuming to convey certain feelings and messages throughout the film.

Despite what she may think, Dorothy is never in any real danger during her adventure. Though harm befalls her companions, she herself is never targeted. Dorothy, with the kiss from the northern witch, and the silver shoes is frightening to her adversaries. The winged monkeys flee upon seeing her, the Wicked Witch of the West becomes very nervous just being around her, even Oz is frightened after she manages to return from Winkie land. There are only two characters in the book from the United States, Dorothy who conquers all in her westward journey, and Oz who fools everyone into thinking he is a powerful wizard. In the real world these two characters are normal people, a young farm girl, and a man who works in a circus. The fact that these two regular Americans can go into the foreign land of Oz and gain power easily, is a testament to the power of America on the world

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

How do you think you would go about being the hero, sticking with your friends in times of peril, and witness someone die? In the novel, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis, there are many archetypes. Some of these archetypes are, The Hero, The Hunting Group of Companions, and Death and Rebirth.

The Wizard of Oz uses film form by using similarity and repetition. With Dorothy being the main character, she is always reappearing in the film. As well as all of the characters, The Tin Man, The Lion, and The Scarecrow, have similarities to Dorothy. Each of them need something, Dorothy needs to go back home, The Tin Man needs a brain, The Scarecrow needs a heart, and The Lion needs courage. The film also progresses from the beginning to the end, as well as the characters. Dorothy starts at one spot, follows the yellow brick road and eventually makes it to her destination to see The Wizard of Oz, gets what

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. The role of color plays an important role in the story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The colors of blue, black, and green symbolize many important emotions and ideas. The blue represents the Munchkins, the black represents the Wicked Witch of the West, and the green represents the Emerald city.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz projects its message in a very subtle unsuspected way. For a child the story is just a magical story full of colors but underlying the colors “Baum created a children’s story with a symbolic allegory implicit within its story line and characterization” (50). The book is full of symbolism, when Dorothy lands on West Witch with her house, she is given a pair of silver slippers by the Good Witch of the North. She is

While there are many themes that L. Frank Baum writes about in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that focuses on a young, maturing girl named Dorothy Gale; that is living in a grey world and then suddenly her life is full of color after a cyclone. Throughout the story, Dorothy Gale is reminded that the land of Oz is beautiful and much more interesting that Kansas ever will and it takes her awhile to realize it along her adventurous plan. The two themes that stand out throughout the story is the childhood to maturity that Dorothy progresses in and a twisted way that makes you see the virtue in the story, also known as the disability of it all. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not all just a children's fairytale. Although the land of Oz is depicted as

The Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling are a well known and highly celebrated series. In the first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the audience is introduced to the main character, Harry. Harry is an embodiment of many common themes and devices in literature. However, Rowling manages to employ these literary tropes while creating a story entirely different from any other. The novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone provides an example of how to effectively utilize common literary motifs and archetypes without being cliché.

“The cyclone had set the house down into a country of marvelous beauty.” is merely just the beginning of the tale of Dorothy traveling through a mysterious land, making interesting friends, and eventually slaying an evil witch. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an epic by L. Frank Baum is known by children and adults alike all over. And what exactly makes this tale of a naive little girl an epic? The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an epic due to its characteristics, conventions, archetypes, and the way it follows the stereotypical hero’s journey.

Wizard of Oz is a fantasy and at the same time adventurous story of a girl named Dorothy. It is fantasy because it shows the image of a scarecrow who wishes to have a brain which in reality doesn't exist. A Tin Woodman who wants to have a heart and the irony of the Lion who wishes to have courage. It also shows magic such as the wicked witch, good witch and the other characters who was portrayed in the story.