Wizard Of Oz Irony Quotes

This quote is said by the Tin Woodsman in chapter six of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. The Tin Woodsman is explain to the others why he is so forlorn after her accidentally stepping and killing the beetle. This quote is significant to the text as a whole for two main reasons; it is a very ironic quote, the Tin Woodsman is one of the most compassionate, selfless, and loving or all the characters in the novel (he even cries when he accidentally steps on a beetle) and yet he claims “I have no heart.” This irony is important to the Tin Woodsman as a character, but it is also important to the text as a whole because, as we discussed in class, the irony that Baum consistently uses is a key feature in the novel that helps form

This quote is significant to the text because the wolf dressed as Granny is symbolic of sweet and cunning gentlemen that secretly manipulate beautiful young ladies. We know this because the diction is very sexual, Little Red “undresses herself” and “went to bed” with the wolf and was killed and eaten! This implies that young ladies, like red, must be careful not to be wooed by cunning young men, because their intentions are often based in hunger (lust). It’s a very moralistic and instructive tale (which is typical of children’s literature and fairy tales) and it is not surprising to see that the moral is aimed at women/girls and not men because we have seen this multiple times before in other texts form this

This quote is said by Mary to Colin after Colin has apologized to Mary for saying what he said about sending Dickon away. The two of them are talking to each other in Colin’s room, it is the scene when Mary tells Colin that there is a door to the secret garden. This quote is significant to the story because it shows the huge amount of maturing and learning that Mary has gone through. Mary now has a deep appreciation of the Yorkshire moors and just before she says the quote above she tells Colin that she wouldn’t have liked him before (before she met the Robin). This quote and the context of the quote shows us that nature not only has to power to change a person’s entire character but it is likened to the spiritual holy. The angle would “understand the green things,” this shows Burnett’s emphasis on the importance of interacting with nature- angles, holy beings who are often depicted with special abilities or powers, would have the power to understand the earth and would “know how to talk to wild creatures, as Dickon does.” The fact that Mary believes that a divine being such as an angle would be connected to the green things displays the greater theme that interacting and being one with nature is essential to one’s