11-06-2012, 01:43 PM
The Wonderful Wisard of Oz as political symbolism and satire
http://www.usagold.com/gildedopinion/oz.html
I just watched the MGM movie based on the book by L. Frank Baum on Turner Classic Movies on television and something came to mind about it possibly being some sort of satire cleverly done. Sure enough, a Google search produced this article with the possibility that it might have been intentionally written that way, or if not, it certainly lent itself easily to an analysis consistent with the politics of that time and hence could be considered a political satire. The book was published in 1900.
(In the original book version Dorothy had silver slippers, not red ones as in the movie. The silver slippers repesented the "free silver" policy favored by the Populist movement in opposition to the gold standard favored by the Republicans, symbolized by the "yellow brick road" and "yellow bricks".)
Adele
http://www.usagold.com/gildedopinion/oz.html
I just watched the MGM movie based on the book by L. Frank Baum on Turner Classic Movies on television and something came to mind about it possibly being some sort of satire cleverly done. Sure enough, a Google search produced this article with the possibility that it might have been intentionally written that way, or if not, it certainly lent itself easily to an analysis consistent with the politics of that time and hence could be considered a political satire. The book was published in 1900.
(In the original book version Dorothy had silver slippers, not red ones as in the movie. The silver slippers repesented the "free silver" policy favored by the Populist movement in opposition to the gold standard favored by the Republicans, symbolized by the "yellow brick road" and "yellow bricks".)
Adele