Allegory In The Wizard Of Oz

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October 21st, 2010 Mr. Perri Honors English Allegory Writing Assignment An allegory in a movie that I have seen is “The Wizard of Oz” by Whether Baum. There were different allegories that could be contemplated by only a couple actual make full sense.In the movie the basic allegory would have been that the people in Dorothy’s dream was a metaphor for people in Dorothy’s real life, but there is a deeper meaning to all the characters. This movie is a deeper allegory for the political, economic and social events of the 1890’s in America.It is an allegory because all of the characters in the movie represent political social classes.In the movie Dorothy represented the average american girl, she can also represent the workers union some say she can also represent an ordinary individual led astray and seeking the way back home. the Tin Man represented a factory worker, the scare crow was symbolic for the farmers, and the wizard of Oz was a metaphor for Theodore Roosevelt. The yellow brick road is a metaphor for the “gold standard” that they had developed back in the1890‘s. The cyclone in the beginning of the story was used as an allegory for a political revolution in the 1890’s that would transform the United States of America from a dull country into a country of prosperity and liveliness. It was also used by cartoonists of the 1890s to represent an political upheaval. The Wicked Witch of the West can represent the actual American west an the witches monkeys would represent the dangers of the american
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