Wizard Of Oz Theories

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an amazing story for children to watch, and read. It's less known to be a metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of America in the 1850s-1950s. A story about a young girl who gets carried away by a twister and ends up in a different world, meets knew people, and tries to figure out how to get home. The Wizard of Oz has many examples of events that happen in the 1850s-1950s, such as the tin man, he symbolizes an industrial worker, he is in need of a heart and when Dorothy first meets him, he can't move because of how rusted over he is. This symbolizes the era of the Great Depression when factories and businesses closed down, and not many people have work, which caused people to feel helpless and

A Parable on Populism would be being about the collapse of the Populist Movement in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. In this theory, Dorothy is representing the common citizen, the Tin Man is the industrial worker, the Scarecrow is a stand-in for farmers, and the Cowardly Lion is politician William Jennings Bryan, seen by many at the time as being all talk and no action. The religious Allegory is suggesting that Dorothy, the Lion, the Tin-man, and the Scarecrow encounter a variety of sins and temptations along the way toward the Emerald City, which would be a type of a heaven. The Atheist Allegory suggests that there is no god. The Wizard who was behind the curtain was a mortal rather than a god. The Feminist Allegory shows that anyone who has any real power in the movie would be the good witch of North and Dorothy, which are both female characters. It also shows how the men are lacking at least one thing, the tin man – a heart, the scarecrow – a brain, the lion – courage. The Inadequacy of adults' theory believes that one reason Oz is so powerful is because it shows weakness in adults, and wants kids to grow up for themselves, hence, why Glinda doesn't tell Dorothy she could go home with three clicks of her