In the novel "The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz" L. Frank Baum uses different colors throughout the novel. These color play a big role in the novel. They symbolize specific things in the story. in the novel the author was very particular on how different regions were colored and what bit represented. the role the color play in the novel are the different regions of Oz.
The Yellow Winkies lived in the palace and had been slaves for a very long time. They were much like the Munchkins except they were dressed in Yellow. The Wicked Witch had a great longing to capture the Silver Slippers for herself. She devised a plan to trip Dorothy. The plan worked, but, she only got one of the slippers.
Cinderella ran away to the garden to cry. Suddenly, her fairy godmother appeared. With a wave of her wand, she turned a pumpkin into an elegant coach. Cinderella could now go to the ball, but her dress was still ruined. "Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!" said the Fairy Godmother, waving her wand again.
The wicked witch of the west wants her sister’s ruby slippers, which apparently have magical powers. However, Glinda has magically put the shoes on Dorothy’s feet. The wicked witch of the west vows to get Dorothy and regain her sister’s shoes, “I’ll get you my pretty and your little dog too” ("Quotes from "The Wizard of Oz", 2018) Besides her vow to the shoes, very little is known about the motivations of the Wicked Witch of the West. Many other mediums in literature and movies have attempted to explain her intentions, including occasionally making her an antihero.
Throughout the classic novel, The Wizard of Oz, written in the year 1900 by L. Frank Baum, multiple colors are presented. Readers are introduced to an array of colors following Dorothy's arrival from Kansas. They show a change in scene and location, along with the mood of the chapter. Although the film depiction of the novel is not the exact same, it manages to promote the same idea of importance and significance of color.
For example, one of the most prominent symbols that theorists see in The Wizard of Oz is the famous yellow brick road. Shortly after Dorothy
When we look at the grandmother in the story, we see many traits of which cause problems and precarious situations. The grandmother when looked at closely is the main reason that all the problems in the story happened. In the beginning of the story she displays a stubborn attitude and shows a spirit of independency; maybe too much. She carefully sneaks her cat into the car, and later down the road the cat sneaks out, jumps on the drivers face, and causes them to have a wreck. As seen in the article “A Good Man is Hard To Find” it states “The grandmother never turns her critical eye on herself to inspect her own hypocrisy, dishonesty, and selfishness.
The two stories, The Witches by Roald Dahl and “Fly Away Home” by Eve Bunting, the two main characters Danny, and Andrew are very different and similar in many ways. Yet they propose the same theme, Always try no matter the circumstances. Danny from the witches proposes the theme, always try no matter the circumstances. When he gets discovered after being trapped in a room with all of the witches he still tries his hardest to get out of the room even though he cannot.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are two pieces of fiction that have been read for generations. Though their plots differ, each story exemplifies different ideologies of fantasy, and has similar fictional elements. Both stories feature a protagonist’s exit from the mundane world into a world of fantasy, and in both stories these protagonists return to their world changed by their experiences in the alternate realm. The stories of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland develop differently, and should therefore require antagonists with unique qualities. However, this is not the case.
Cinderella, in the French version, brought to her godmother; a pumpkin, six mice, six lizards, and a rat. All these things helped her get to the ball by the godmother turning the pumpkin into a fine coach, the mice into horses, the lizards into footmen and the rat into a coach man. Yet still dressed in rags Cinderella says “but must I go in these nasty rags?” so with a touch of her wand the godmother turned Cinderella’s rags into cloth of gold and silver beset with jewels. On the other side in the German style Cinderella went to her big and beautiful tree with a white bird high on it that would always grant her wishes.
Her phone dinged. She picked it up and looked at the text. It was a picture from her best friend Catalina with the tagline ‘my halloween costume.’ Cat was going as the periodic table of the elements, with each element neatly painted on a black jumpsuit. The picture
A human sized toy castle. I dashed around the store looking for any pillows and blankets to put in it. As I was fixing up my “room” i heard a sound. It sounded like something was calling my name. “Jennyyyyy, Jennyyy” it would say in a faint voice.
Dorothy in the beginning of her travels is instructed to follow the yellow brick road to get her greatest desire. The yellow brick road navigated her to new friends and eventually home. The golden cap is a charmed commodity that grants the bearer to call upon the winged monkeys three times for any command. The wicked witch used the cap to aid her in conquest over Oz. Although
Imagine a world without color. You probably can't. In everything you see and read there is color. All types of literature contain color. These colors are not just a part of the literature to be in the text, they add understanding and interest.
The colors in the novel bear a rich symbolic and emotional potential. In this novel, the author makes extensive use of color, which acquire the symbolic value and serve as a tool for the disclosure of the artistic world. Colors become an integral part of the character of the world and reveal their nature, serve as a means of an opposition of some characters to each other. In addition, every writer, along with the traditional associations, also has its own individual vision of color symbolism. Therefore, in order to understand the true meaning of the work, it is necessary to understand these implications.