Spirited Away Figurative Language

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Spirited Away and the Wizard of Oz, set in Japan and Hollywood, the authors Victor Fleming and Miyazaki demonstrate maturity and growth in both Dorothy and Chihiro's attitude, through figurative language. Similarly, both Spirited Away and the Wizard of Oz characters save people which show development, an example is in Spirited Away when Chihiro helps Haiku with him being sick and in the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy rescues poor Toto from Miss Gulch. Moreover, the metaphorical language that is used in Spirited away is when Miyazaki calls the name no face, this indicates he is no one and means nothing to anyone. Having the ruby red slippers, Dorothy attempts to visit the Wizard of Oz by bringing the witch’s broomstick through being scared by the powerful …show more content…

Additionally, in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy was scared and immature when finding her way to the Wizard but with the help of Tin man, Lion and the Scarecrow by saying ’we'll go in there for Dorothy wicked witch or no wicked witch' and she matured like an adult through the film. However, in Spirited Away at the beginning of the film she wears childish clothes though Dorothy wears an American style appearance which is more grown up. In the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy is in the moving house this suggests that the main character is dreaming which shows she is scared and childish this is shown through an angle on the right side of the frame and special effects using smoke swirling around her head. During a time when the Shinto religion is practiced, Chihro shows growth when her parents steal and take the sprits food she says ' guys don’t take that food, we're gonna get in trouble!' and her guardians didn’t even care, she is matured enough to recognise that its wrong and they shouldn’t do it even when she is a child. Finally, both Dorothy and Chihiro settled, developed and matured during the award-winning

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