Role Of Hero's Quest In The Wizard Of Oz

The Hero’s Quest is a pattern seen through movies, books, art, and mythology; it is also known as monomyth or hero’s journey since the hero’s quest is a theory, not all the components are evident in every film. The theory includes ordinary world, call to adventure, refusal of the call, meeting the mentor, crossing the threshold, the test, allies and enemies, approach, death and rebirth, reward, road back, and resurrection. The Wizard of Oz has the majority of these categories. The archetypal roles also go along with hero’s quest. The roles involve hero, mentor, ally or sidekick, trickster, friendly beast, creature of nightmare, threshold guardians, evil figure, temptress, damsel in distress and the outcast. The Wizard of Oz however, does

The start of the story, Dorothy was in an ordinary world. She always felt out of place and wanted to go somewhere else which is the call to adventure and we know this by her divulging” Some place where there isn 't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. Not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It 's far, far away - behind the moon - beyond the rain”. When Miss Gulch attempted to persuade Dorothy’s uncle, Henry to get rid of Toto, Dorothy’s only friend; this action lead Dorothy to run away with Toto so Miss Gulch could not take him away. While in the process of running away the wind begins to blow intense, so Dorothy finds shelter in a wagon that so happened to be Professor Marvel, the trickster traveling home. We know he is the trickster since, he said, “Well, she 's, uh...What 's this? Well, she 's, she 's putting her hand on her heart. Oh, she 's, she 's dropping down on the bed,” tricking Dorothy into believing her Aunt Em was injured. Dorothy scrambled home to check on her aunt; however the wind by this time was much stronger making looking for her aunt more difficult. She checked the house, but

The scarecrow is the first friend Dorothy helps in a time of need. The scarecrow was on his wooden post and the crows were hurting him because he was not frightful,” You see, I can 't even scare a crow. They come from miles around just to eat in my field and laugh in my face. Oh, I 'm a failure because I haven 't got a brain”, verifies this. He did not have a brain therefore he was not intelligent needing a friend like Dorothy. “If I only had a brain” is an iconic quote from the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy invited the scarecrow on her journey to Emerald City to see the great wizard of oz himself and see if he would grant her wish to go home. The second comrade that Dorothy comes across is the tin man. At first he was not noticed because Dorothy was on the ground to pick an apple to eat and noticed his foot and then the rest of him. The tin man begins to make noises and makes out the words help me, so Dorothy finds an oil can nearby and oils first his mouth then the rest of his body. Out of curiosity Dorothy poses the question “how did you ever get like this”, and the tin man answers “well about a year ago I was chopping that tree and it began to rain and right in the middle of a chop I rusted solid and I’ve been that way ever since.” Dorothy makes the comment that he was perfect after she oiled him and he told them the story of how the tinsmith