There is much to compare and contrast about return to Oz and the Wizard of Oz. Because the Return to Oz is not a musical it seems to be a darker tone. As in the Wizard of Oz they had all of those bright moments whenever someone began to sing. But in Return to Oz they don't even talk about over the rainbow or where Oz is. In my opinion Return to Oz was not a good sequel. Let's try to just focus on Dorothy.
In the Wizard of Oz you see Dorothy as a 14-year-old Who seems to have much trouble in her life. She does not get along with Margaret Hamilton also known as the wicked witch of the west. Dorothy gets in a fight with Margaret Hamilton about her dog Toto. Margaret Hamilton appears to be a mean old lady The Dorothy does not get along with. Turns out when Dorothy goes to Oz, the person that she disliked the most back in Kansas turned out to be the wicked witch. That was one of the things that the Return to Oz carried on. In return to Oz Dorothy does not like to hang around with nurse Wilson also known as Mombi. It just so happens that nurse Wilson was the evil princess when Dorothy return to Oz.
The return to Oz explains Dorothy six months after the events of the Wizard of Oz. ever since she has returned to awes she has been in deep depression. She cannot sleep and will refuse to do her chores. She tries to explain why she
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can't sleep by telling and Aunt Ma and uncle Henry about the wonderful land of Oz but they will not believe her. They end up taking her to a mental hospital for electric shock therapy to supposedly take out the bad dreams. Seriously in the middle of Dorothy's Secrist 2 therapy movie takes a familiar path by a lightning storm happening and cutting the power. She's then is rescued by a mysterious girl that helps her escape the hospital. They are being chased by Nurse Wilson and risked their lives by jumping in a river and floating away. Keep in mind this is all happening during the storm. Ring any bells. Wild Dorothy is swimming for her life she finds a piece of wood and climbs on it. The scene then changes and shows Dorothy waking up in the deadly desert. The place that turns everything to sand. Dorothy did not realize how horrifying and imminent the threats to come might be. She finds a way through the deadly desert and finds the yellow brick road a pile of dust. Shortly after that she come in contact with the emerald city in ruins and fines rejected gang members from Walter Hill, known as wheelers people with wheels as hands and feet. She is then attacked but escapes through a hidden door that she unlocks with the key she found back in Kansas after she is behind the door the wheelers talk about ripping her to shreds literally. Nothing in the Wizard of Oz was ever this graphic. The flying monkeys were kind of odd but even the wicked witch of the west with her evil laugh was Scary but laughable. Dorothy's journeys and both movies are very different.
In the Wizard of Oz she walks on the the yellow brick road with little distractions, like finding scarecrow than tin man then the lion. The closest thing to danger she had was escaping the trees that were trying to trap her and get her to give back the apples that she unknowingly stole. Other than that there was not much danger involved in her journey. The Return to Oz deals with deadly encounters such as the deadly desert and Princess Mombi who has turned the citizens of Oz into stone. She also controls the wheelers. Dorothy escapes her castle with the help of Jack, tick-tock, and
Gump. Wizard of Oz takes it from being a pure fantasy story about a girl who gets banged on the head and awakens in a Wonderland to learn that there's no place like home, to a story of a girl that's younger than Dorothy, which didn't make any sense whatsoever, run away from her shock treatment and cope with her traumatic experiences of having no one believe her. I find it odd that Dorothy, in the Return to Oz, seems to be a bit stronger and braver and embraces her reality in Oz then she does in Kansas unlike Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. I think the reason why I did not enjoy return to Oz is because it had so much of what The Wizard of Oz did not embrace. Dorothy's second coming was nothing spectacular if you looked at Dorothy closely all you would see is a timid little girl.
Various myths that talk about the path of lie and knowledge is a major part of how Widow Glendower illustrates. Many locals fear and also admires the witch all at the same time. Her great knowledge of actuality and her mystic powers. It is hard for people to grasp the ways of Widow Glendower. The character is used to refer to the magical knowledge of the world as a whole.
The narrative begins with Dorothy, who lives on a farm in a black and white setting presuming the absence of vitality and the insufficiency of a place that was in poverty at the time. However, when Dorothy is picked up by a twister and wakes up in the Land of Oz, she finds herself in a completely opposite environment full of life, beauty, and color filled with new found opportunities. On her quest to Emerald City, Dorothy is presented with a few characters who are The Tin Man, The Cowardly Lion, and The Scarecrow who all feel like they need something more to complete them and they all seek out the “all powerful” wizard to obtain the things they want. The items they yearn for were a brain, a heart, and courage. Three things that we learn to utilize with experiences we go through. The characters eventually realize that they have always had what they have been longing for after the many obstacles they came through on their journey. In the end, Dorothy says, “If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't
The specific situation I will talk about is towards the end of the film, Mae Mobley watched as Elizabeth (her biological mother) fires Aibileen, who was practically her only mother figure since the maids did most of the parenting during this time frame. A similar plot happened with Skeeter. Her mother also fired their maid, Constantine, who raised Skeeter as a young girl. This can be very traumatic especially to younger children because to the kids it was just like
In the book, Sara Good confesses to witchcraft because she has a baby on the way, but in the movie, she did it because she knew if she confessed she wouldn’ be hung. Also in the book Abigail Williams pulled a needle out of her stomach at the dinner table, which later becomes to be a big factor in the court cases. In the novel Tituba is actually threatened into confession or else she would be whipped and deported. All of these factors could come into play when determining someone’s mind on which version is better, but by far the movie did a much better job all
As is made obvious from the title of the book, Dorothy must die or rather be assassinated by a group of people. She had saved Oz once. She had gone back to her home land of Kansas, where she was being treated like a farm girl once again. She then came back to Oz were she took control over the land trying to suck the magic out of the land by enslaving the munchkins. The group of people associated with the down fall of Dorothy is the wicked order. They are witches or refugees from Dorothy and her ruling, they have been trying to kill her for years. When Amy Gumm,
The point of views are alike when comparing the two stories while the mood that the setting creates is different. Dr. Seuss, a children’s book author, said, “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” Two books that are magical are People Call Me Crazy and Good
In the book, Sara Good confesses to witchcraft because she has a baby on the way, but in the movie, she did it because she knew if she confessed she wouldn’ be hung. Also in the book Abigail Williams pulled a needle out of her stomach at the dinner table, which later becomes to be a big factor in the court cases. In the novel Tituba is actually threatened into confession or else she would be whipped and deported. All of these factors could come into play when determining someone’s mind on which version is better, but by far the movie did a much better job all
The munchkins, becomes her mentors encouraging her to follow the yellow brick road. They sing and send her off to see the wonderful Wizard of Oz. This is the start of second stage of her hero’s journey; Dorothy walks down the yellow brick road and comes to an intersection, not knowing which way to go. This is where she meets the Scarecrow, who speaks to her and tells her he does not have a brain; she helps him down from the pole he is hanging on. She explain to him that she is on a pathway to the Emerald City to meet the Wizard of Oz, who would instruct her, mentor and be her ally in her journey to find her way back home to Kansas. The Scarecrow begs to go with Dorothy to see the wizard of Oz to ask him for a brain. The Scarecrow joins Dorothy on her journey to the Emerald City to meet the Wizard of Oz and they becomes each other’s mentor and ally. Further down the yellow brick road, the wicked witch could be seen hiding a behind
...are similar in both her ordinary and special worlds, and she must work throughout the rest of the film to resolve them. The Wizard of Oz can be analyzed in many different ways, but the depth of the plot is what gives this movie its timeless qualities making it a favorite still today, and one can’t also help to note how cinematically advanced this movie was for its time making it truly a masterpiece.
Dorothy Gale, the protagonist of the story is a young, optimistic girl who lives on a farm in Kansas, which is a place in Midwest America that lacks colour and mainly consists of flat country land and has minimal trees. The films overall theme is illustrated by Dorothy’s famous line that ultimately
...s. The Scarecrow represents farmers, agricultural workers, ignorant of many city things but honest and able to understand things with a little education. The Tin Man, He represents the industrial worker whose heart has been torn out by the evils of factory work and industrialism. W.J. Bryan embodied the role of the cowardly lion. Bryan was a very loud and booming public speaker but was viewed as a coward because he did not support the Spanish-American war. OZ is the US. The emerald city is Washington D.C. filled with greenbacks and the wizard is the president. Dorothy and her “party” follow the yellow brick way, or gold standard, to find the wizard and fix her problem. When all along they way to fix her problem of how to get back home was to tap her ruby red shoes which were silver thus in the original book thus representing the Populists push for a silver standard.
... getting punished for what she has done. Effectively, after the battle, good prevails. At the end of the story, Aslan fight and defeat the White Witch. Consequently, this is really a classic children book that covers good against evil.
These two films are not only similar on these surface levels, but also in their narrative structure and intent as well. Dorothy and Alice, both find themselves trapped in a world of their own fantasy, but with no context on how to navigate their way home. They are then lead by an array of strange characters who guide them on their journey. Dorothy meets the scarecrow, the tin man, the cowardly lion, and so on. While Alice crosses paths with the white rabbit, the cheshire cat, the mad hatter, and so on. With the assistance of their companions, both heroines maneuver their way through the challenges each fantasy presents. Perhaps the biggest similarity these films share narratively, is the underlying emphasis on empathy and perspective. Both
Setting the tale in Nazi Germany creates an atmosphere of fear and anxiety, and establishes a set of circumstances in which it is possible for people to act in ways that would be unacceptable under other circumstances. The stepmother is a good example of this. She is the force in the family – it is she who decides that everyone in the family will have a better chance of survival, if they split up – the children going off alone together and the parents going in another direction. Unlike the portrayal of the stepmother in the Grimm fairy tale, this stepmother is not wicked. She is strong willed and determined, but not evil, although she is protecting herself and her husband by abandoning the children.
Sometimes, the hardest parts of life can make one a better person in the long run, it just takes time. In the novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, Dorothy learns the importance of being independent and brave. By going on the journey to Oz, she runs into many challenges throughout the novel that help her grow into a hero at the end of the novel. In the story, Dorothy lives a normal life, but then there was a twister that hit her house and flew her away into a different land. This land was called, munchkin land. Here, Dorothy was welcomed, then she tells the princess she wants to go home and the princess tells her the only way to get home was to follow the yellow brick road to Oz. So she follows the road and runs into many obstacles, but in the end, Dorothy ends up talking to Oz and getting home safely. Dorothy grows into a hero because she had to face her fear of defeating the witch and makes it back home, while also helping out the scarecrow, tiger, and the tin man and she has to learn how it is important to be independent.