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The Wizard of Oz as an Allegor

Date Submitted: 06/05/2004 19:02:58
Category: / Literature / Novels
Length: 2 pages (532 words)
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…forth. Dorothy dissolves the witch with a bucket of water (what else for drought-ridden farmers?), but when they return to the Emerald City, they find that the Wizard (the money power) is only a manipulator, whose power rests on myth and illusion. Dorothy unmasks the wizard, and with the help of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South (support for silver was strong in the South), uses the silver slippers to return home to Kansas.

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