Who is wizard of oz

When he was not getting better fast enough, the filmmakers hired Jack Haley to be the Tin Man instead. This time, instead of applying the aluminum powder, the makeup artists mixed it into a paste and painted it on him.

He did develop an infection in his right eye that needed medical attention, but it ended up being treatable. The dog a female Cairn terrier named Terry sprained its foot, and Spitz had to get a canine double. Terry did recover and returned to the set a few weeks later. Garland was only 16 when she made The Wizard of Oz, and her struggles with depression and disordered eating started at an early age and continued for the rest of her life.

She claimed that the studio executives gave her uppers and sleeping pills so she could keep up with the demanding pace of show business.

She struggled with a drug addiction and attempted suicide several times before she died of an accidental overdose on June 22, , at just 47 years old. Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia. By Olivia B. Get our History Newsletter. He depicts the factories and the factory workers during the time period of the s, when the depression took place. Factories were shut down, and when the Tin Man is first found, he is so rusted that he cannot move.

This scene in the movie represents this idea perfectly. Even though it takes a little bit of time for Dorothy to oil the Tin Man, she gets the job done. This portrays the idea that even though America had a tough time at first during the depression, they were able to make it through okay.

The Cowardly Lion is another main character introduced in the story. He represents William Jennings Bryan, according to Littlefield. This is because Bryan was unable to get the votes of the industrial workers in the election.

As each of the three main characters meet up with each other, one can see that they each represent a part of the American population. The Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion together, make up the American society during the time period of the late s, early s.

They all follow Dorothy on the road to Oz. This represents, again, how the main focus of The Wizard of Oz is on the people of America. Further into this interpretation, according to Littlefield, The Wicked Witch of the West is a representation of the Great Plains, and how hard it was for Americans to make a living there. The bucket of water that Dorothy pours on the Wicked Witch at the end of the story represents the end of the drought.

The Wicked Witch melts from the water, which symbolizes how the drought finished. Everyone looks up to the President of the United States, just like everyone in Oz looked up to the Wizard. This is a perfect analysis of what the Wizard represents in the story. Ranjit S. MGM changed the color of the slippers in order to show the new technology of Technicolor. According to Dighe, Littlefield interpreted the story as an allegory about monetary populism. The Yellow Brick Road symbolizes the gold standard.

These two elements of the story end up at the same place in the end: The Emerald City. His theories about what each element in the story represents, matches perfectly. The ego is recognized with the conscious mind, the personal unconscious is basically memories that easily come to mind, and the collective unconscious is like an instinct that we all have. In The Wizard of Oz, characters like Glinda the Good Witch represent the mother archetype because she looks out for Dorothy, and Toto represents the trickster, because he is always creating problems.

Right when Dorothy enters Oz, Glinda is there for her, giving her the ruby slippers, and telling her to follow the Yellow Brick Road.

But like a mother figure, Glinda lets Dorothy find out for herself what the slippers are for, and how important they are going to be to her. When Toto jumps out of the hot-air balloon, he causes Dorothy to loose her one chance, or so she thinks, to go back home.

Toto also causes the Cowardly Lion to growl at him, causing Dorothy to hit the Lion on the nose. In the story, the flying monkeys symbolize the shadow figure. In the story, the monkeys come and take Dorothy to the Wicked Witch. They just do what they are told to do, and in this case, they are the evil ones in the story.

The Wizard of Oz is the perfect representation of the persona archetype. The world is, obviously, related to the word person and personality, and comes from a Latin word for mask. The Wizard is looked up to all throughout the story until the very end.

He puts up an image to the people of Oz, that he is some great person, capable of anything. However, at the end of the story, Toto reveals who the Wizard really is: a normal man, pretending to be an intimidating individual.

All three of these characters set out to rescue Dorothy, and help her when she is captured by the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy, of course, represents the maiden archetype. This is exactly what the Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man are doing towards the end of the story when they sneak into the Wicked Witches castle. Beebe relates the story to the principle of opposites; for everything good, there must be something bad.

Glinda from the beginning of the story is there for Dorothy. The Wicked Witch is just doing anything she can to get the ruby slippers from Dorothy. An example of the principle of equivalence in the story is seen through the relationship between Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion. Love film? If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.

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