What Is The Silver Shoes In The Wizard Of Oz

Throughout different versions of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is seen as a sweet and simple girl, with no worry in her life, but when the cyclone transports her to a magical place, all she thinks about is going home. She mysteriously landed in an unknown land and her house accidently landed on top of the Wicked Witch of the East. The witch dies, but she leaves something miraculous behind. The story states, “[t]he feet of the dead witch had disappeared entirely and nothing was left but the silver shoes” (Baum, 9). The silver shoes are the most important objects in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz because not only were they the first magical objects to be found in the plot of the story, but they can also be found in different versions of the Wizard of Oz. In Baum’s story, the MGM movie version of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Maguire 's novel, the shoes represent something different. The slippers in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz held a lot of power, but Dorothy didn’t take that into consideration because all she kept thinking about was how to get home. She thought Glinda, was her only hope to get home, so she goes and tells Glinda

Nessarose, the Wicked Witch of the East, is Elphaba’s younger sister, but is tremendously attractive, unlike Elphaba. Elphaba was born green, so she feels jealous of Nessarose’s pink skin. In addition to their different skin colors, Frex, their father, resents Elphaba and prefers Nessarose over her, even though Nessarose has a deformity and is not her actual daughter. In the novel, Frex sends Nessarose a back-to-school gift, which was the shoes, causing Elphaba to resent her because she was jealous that her father preferred Nessarose, even though she wasn’t his actual daughter. As a result, Nessarose 's shoes symbolize the love, respect, acceptance from family that Elphaba needs and craves