The author L. Frank Baum uses color throughout the novel The Wizard of Oz. He uses the role of color as a transition from scene to scene. L. Frank Baum also uses color to symbolize the feelings of the characters. The use of color between chapter ten through chapter fourteen demonstrate how L. Frank Baum was able to use color for this purpose.
For example, in chapter ten titled The Guardian of Gates Dorothy, Toto, the Tin Woodsman, the Scarecrow and the Lion slowly awaken from the red poppy field. The color red is used as a symbol of caution or danger. During our daily lives the color red is used for stop signs and yield signs. Next L. Frank Baum writes,” Travelers rejoiced in the leaving of the forest far behind and with it the many dangers they had met in its gloomy shades.” Shades are dark in color. The shades are referring to the feelings of fear the travelers felt. The shades symbolize danger. L. Frank Baum continues to write about how Dorothy finds the yellow brick road. The use of the color yellow symbolizes feelings of hope and joy because they are all on the right path. He goes on to write about their walk. They begin to pass houses as they travel the yellow brick road. The houses are an emerald green. The travelers see the green as a symbol that they are nearing the Emerald City. Baum writes “This must be the Land of Oz.” said Dorothy “and we are surely getting near the Emerald City.”
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Continuing with chapter eleven titled The Emerald City of Oz, the color green is again.
However, the color green is used to describe the pavement, the sky has a hint of green, and even the windows of houses are green. Even the people had a green tint to their skin. L. Frank Baum wrote, “Everyone seemed happy and contented and prosperous.” The color green symbolizes wealth and wellbeing throughout the
city. As the novel continues, the use of color continues. In chapter thirteen titled The Rescue, Dorothy calls for the yellow winkies to help rescue the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow. The use of yellow symbolizes happiness because her friends will be rescued. Dorothy later finds a Golden Cap in the yellow castle that fits her perfectly. This Golden Cap symbolizes a pivotal change in the character of Dorothy at the end of chapter thirteen. As chapter fourteen titled The Winged Monkeys begins Dorothy and her friends walk for days, not realizing the power of the Golden Cap. Just as they feel like giving up on finding their way back to the yellow brick road, they remind each other that they could call upon the field mice for help. The field mice arrive and the Queen of the Mice quickly recognizes the Golden Cap. The Queen of the Mice explains that the Golden Cap has powers and that Dorothy can call upon the winged monkeys to take her and her friends to the yellow brick road quickly. Delighted, Dorothy quickly calls upon the winged monkeys and they are heading on their way. The winged monkeys explain the Golden Cap’s powers. The color golden is often associated with good luck and good fortune. The Lion says, “How lucky it was you brought away that wonderful cap.” L. Frank Baum uses color to symbolize many different interpretations and feelings. The color yellow is used frequently. The use of the color yellow in chapter ten describes the brick symbolizing a feeling of hope because Dorothy and her friends are on the right path to see the Wizard of Oz. They feel hopeful that the Wizard can grant them their wishes. The color yellow is used again to describe the Golden Cap. The Golden Cap gives Dorothy the power to deliver herself and her friends to the Land of Oz. The color green was used in chapter fourteen to describe the Emerald City. The use of making everything green allows the reader to interpret the prosperity of the city. L. Frank Baum use of color allows the reader to realize the significance of each event.
The story ( The Wonder World of OZ ) written by Frank Baum is filled with symbolism. Symbolism a style of writing using symbols and indirect suggestion to express ideas, emotions, people etc. The story gives a lot of symbols relating to the gilded age in American history which took place from 1880– 1900. The main symbols are: Dorothy, the Land of Oz, lion, Emerald City, flying monkeys.
The Wizard of Oz is one of the most controversial movies in American history because there is no clear and cut meaning of the film. Everyone has a different interpretation of what the film Wizard of Oz really means. Some people believe that the movie has Christian religious symbolism or atheist symbolism, others believe that the illuminati was behind the making of the Wizard of Oz to brainwash people, others believe that there is a more political based meaning of the Wizard of Oz with a connection to what was going on in the history of the United States. During the 1800’s society faced many issues and although the Wizard of Oz can be interpreted in many different ways it is believed that the most significant meanings of the
Apparently, green is the most prominently used color in the novel. The reason for this may be that green is the color used to describe the main character of the novel, Jay Gatsby. One of the possible meanings of green in this story is envy. Gatsby can be seen as an envious man for a few reasons. For one, he is extremely envious of Tom Buchanan because of the fact that he has the one thing he can’t buy, Daisy. Also, Gatsby is extremely envious of the people that he invites to his house. He knows that he is not old money like the people he invites to his parties. This makes him a man of who, is “Green with envy.”
As Dorothy approaches her magical destination she notices the abundance of the rich color. There is not a hint of anything but green. The city is dripping with green including the clothes, money, food, books, and flowers. Not to mention the green people, with green hair and green tinted faces. Green is often connected to money and riches but in this case it is related to the prosperity of the beautiful city. It is being led by a powerful wizard that everyone worships and respects. That leadership helps the city grow and flourish so successfully. The spirited color gives the feeling of trust between the wizard and his people.
During 1939, The Wizard of Oz made its debut in the United States. Based off the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, the movie displays the mystical adventure of a young girl, Dorothy Gale. Beginning in Kansas on Dorothy’s aunt and uncle’s farm, the film focuses around Dorothy and her monotonous life. Shortly into the movie, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are swept away by a twister and dropped off in the magical Land of Oz. Here she meets the Good Witch of the North, Glinda. She advises Dorothy to follow the Yellow Brick Road and find the Wizard, who can grant Dorothy her wish of returning to Kansas. Along her path to the Emerald City, where the Wizard of Oz lives, she encounters the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion. Each
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”(Fitzgerald 171). Whenever Gatsby looks at Daisy’s green light, he thinks of a bright future with his love of his life. The color green symbolizes Gatsby’s desire for a future with Daisy. Green also symbolizes Gatsby’s desire for great wealth. Nick describes Gatsby’s car as a “green leather conservatory” because the interior is green (Fitzgerald 64).
F. Scott Fitzgerald used the imagery of colors in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby. The colors are used very frequently as symbols, and the hues create atmosphere in different scenes of the book. White is a clean and fresh color, but the author shows how it can be tainted as well. Next, yellow illustrates the downfall of moral standards of the people of West Egg. Lastly, green, the most dominant color in the book, symbolizes wealth and Gatsby's unattainable dream.
Some of the most well-known and intriguing symbolic imagery in The Great Gatsby comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of the color green. Fitzgerald used green primarily to represent two human traits in Gatsby: longing for things beyond one’s reach and hope for the future. The color green was first used symbolically as the character Nick Carraway returned from a party at the Buchanans’ house. He stopped before going into his home, seeing the mysterious Jay Gatsby in the distance. Carraway described Gatsby, saying, “…he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily, I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way…” (Fitzgerald 20). As revealed later in the novel, Jay Gatsby bought his house on West Egg in order to be near the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan, the dock of whose house projected the green light mentioned by Carraway. Although Gatsby was so close to Daisy, he was unable to rekindle their romance because of her husband. The green light served as the manifestation of Gatsby’s desires, strong enough for him to gaze upon, but far enough away to retain its heart-wrenching intangibility. Th...
Red ruby slippers. Green emerald city. Yellow brick road. These are just of the few iconic colors that bring to life The Wizard of Oz film. But before color even gets introduced, we see Dorothy in a monotone world of black and white with a sepia toned film. Set in the middle of Kansas, the viewer gets a sense of boredom and bareness. It seems as if the only people in that whole state are Dorothy, her immediate family and the farmhands! However, after her house gets lifted up and redeposited, she opens the door to a world of Technicolor. Your eyes are shocked as the screen is filled with various bright colors. The colors of Munchkin Land symbolize a vibrant, surreal, dreamlike adventure. It creates moods of happiness and security for the viewer as we are transported back to a world we know; color. In his article Color and Storytelling in Films, Robert Mills says, “Kansas is described as grey and lifeless whilst
Throughout the story the author uses a variety of symbolism in The Great Gatsby to help develop the theme of immorality in the story. Multiple colors are used to symbolize aspects of immorality in the wealthy population at the time of The Great Gatsby. These symbols are especially present in the character Jay Gatsby throughout the story. The color green, representing needs and wants, is found multiple times in the story. Another color that helps develop the theme is white; this color represents false purity in a person or thing. Finally, corruption is usually a significant aspect of immorality especially in a wealthy setting, and under grave circumstances it can even lead to death. This segment of immorality is portrayed in the story using the color yellow. These symbols help develop the characteristics found in Jay Gatsby and also help support the theme of immorality as the book progresses.
The implication of the color green was most abundant in chapter sixteen, where Hawthorne used much description to depict the dreariness within the woods, yet adding a sense of security to it all. 'Here they sat down on a luxuriant heap of moss, which, at some epoch of the preceding century, had been a gigantic pine, with its root and trunk in the darksome shade…'; (177) There is, apparently, plenty of references to the color green. Not only does green represent nature in general, its reference to the forest is also the very depiction of freedom. Nobody watches in the woods to report misbehavior, thus it is here that people may do as they wish.
Colors are an essential part of the world around us. They can convey messages, expressing that which words do not. Gentle blue tones can calm a person and bright yellows can lift the spirits. If an artist is trying to express sorrow or death he often uses blacks blues, and grays basically he uses dreary colors. Without one word, a driver approaching a red traffic light knows to stop. Colors are representative of many things. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism throughout as a major device in thematic and character development. He uses colors to symbolize the many different intangible ideas in the book. Throughout the book characters, places, and objects are given "life" by colors, especially the more prominent ones.
The Great Gatsby is full of symbolism, colors, for example. Throughout the book the author uses them to represent different themes of the novel. Some of these colors are white, yellow, grey, green, pink, red and blue. However, I picked white and green for my commentary because I think these colors have a special meaning different from the others. White is mainly used to describe the character’s innocence, fakeness, and corruption. While green represents Gatsby’s hopes, ambitions, and dreams. In addition, sometimes green symbolizes the jealousy of certain characters.
The color green can signify many things in the every day life, people may think of it as “go” or as something positive. F. Scott Fitzgerald is an author known to use a lot of symbolism in his writings. In his famous novel, “the Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald uses the color green to represent various things. His use of the color green represents mostly what Gatsby desires most in life, but he also includes it to represent little things that need thinking to figure out.
On her way to the city she meets three new companions to accompany her on her journey. After talking to the great Oz, she is told that if she wants to get home that she needs to kill the wicked witch of the west, then Oz will make her go home. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum uses color to relate to the reader the importance of certain items. The novel starts off in Kansas which is described to be very grey. This is to show the dullness of Kansas.