{"id":369,"date":"2022-02-23T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=369"},"modified":"2022-02-23T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T17:25:16","slug":"blog-post-5-what-on-earth-is-the-wizard-of-oz-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/02\/23\/blog-post-5-what-on-earth-is-the-wizard-of-oz-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 5: What on Earth is &#8220;The Wizard of Oz?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the surface, The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum is seen as a children\u2019s story conveying the message that there is \u201cno place like home.\u201d Dorothy represents an innocent child dreaming of a better, magical place than where she lives now, but as the story develops, this children\u2019s story representing much more than a child finding her way back home. The larger, hidden meaning behind this story is one that depicts the political allegory for American politics at the beginning of the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century. Each character represents different social class struggles ultimately showing the corruption in politics and leaders. Because of this representation, Frank Baum\u2019s intended audience is all people unhappy with the corruption within the government system as well as politicians themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In many scenes of the book and film, \u201cwild\u201d is used to describe animals and beasts. One scene in particular regarding this type of wildness occurs at the beginning of chapter 6 titled: The Cowardly Lion. Along the yellow brick road, birds flew \u201cfor birds love the open country where there is plenty of sunshine\u201d but every now and then \u201cthere came a deep growl from some wild animal hidden among the trees.\u201d It was said that this type of wildness \u201cmade the little girl\u2019s heart beat fast, for she did not know what made them.\u201d This type of wildness is described animalistically as these \u201cwild\u201d beasts install fear and uncertainty within Dorothy and her companions. These emotions are commonly associated with pathos as fear is an emotion many people can relate to. The different representation between the freedom the birds felt compared to the hidden, wild beasts infers a type of evilness and mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Wines <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum is seen as a children\u2019s story conveying the message that there is \u201cno place like home.\u201d Dorothy represents an innocent child dreaming of a better, magical place than where she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/02\/23\/blog-post-5-what-on-earth-is-the-wizard-of-oz-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}