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how does L Frank Baum portray feminist ideologies through the construction…

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        chicago fair = emerald city
        
        Baum was the type of individual who would optimistically try new things and never allow his enthusiasm to be stifled by difficult times (Schwartz xi). From this understanding of Baum it is apparent that he believed in people‟s ability to solve their own problems, a concept that is evident throughout the Oz books as the characters repeatedly demonstrate the qualities that they think they lack.
        
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        Maud. “I don’t think much of Kansas,” she wrote. “The hotels are dreadful. It’s N.G. [her abbreviation for No Good.] I couldn’t be hired to live here.” Baum would never again return to Kansas, except in his future fables.
        
        “As soon as a system of religion was adopted which taught the greater sinfulness of women,” Gage wrote in Woman, Church and State in 1893, “the saying arose: One wizard for every 10,000 witches, and the persecution for witchcraft became chiefly directed at women.”
        
        Baum the fantasist was haunted by his mother-in-law’s vivid descriptions of witch-hunting, a motif that would provide the climax in Oz when the Wizard commands Dorothy and her companions to hunt down the Wicked Witch of the West.
        
        Baum’s oilcans would be mythologized by one of his many memorable characters, the Tin Woodman, who was in constant need of a few drops.
        
        When Frank would tell whimsical tales to his own sons or the kids in the store, she would insist that he put them to paper. “Frank,” she said, “you must write your stories down.”
        
        “Now you are a good writer and I advise you to try,” she suggested in a letter. “If you could get up a series of adventures or a Dakota blizzard…or maybe bring in a cyclone from North Dakota.”
- - - - “ I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds” (Baum 69).
  - - - Dorothy then proceeds to free the Lion and orchestrate the rescue of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman (109-111).
        
        she is definitely the hero in the book
  - - - dissected the image of independent girl created in the book
      - turned her into a weepy creature
      - lack of “a solid and dramatic drive of Dorothy’s adventures and purposes that will keep the audience rooting for her” throughout her trip to Oz.
    - - This message is hammered in at the end of the film when Glinda explains to Dorothy why she didn't tell her about the shoes at the beginning. "Because she wouldn't have believed me. She had to learn it for herself." At this point, the Tin Man asks, "What have you learned, Dorothy?" Dorothy's response is revealing. "Well, I . . .think that it . . . that it wasn't enough just to want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em . . . and it's that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard; because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right?" Glinda replies, "That's all it is"
        
        true happiness for women = at HOME
        
        Baum in his books, however, creates a place for Dorothy both in Kansas and in repeated visits to the Land of Oz
    - - Dorothy did not accomplish anything in the movie, since it was all just a dream.
        
        theme of the film was that Dorothy was nothing without her home, that she felt empty because she was not in Kansas. The main message of the film to the audience is that home is where one should be
- - - - And when the Wizard makes it a condition of his helping her that she destroy the second witch, she sets out immediately to do it, even though she does not want to destroy anyone or anything
- - - - e German Brothers Grimm
        
        snow white, rapunzel
      - Hans Christian Andersen
        
        the little mermeid
      - Lewis Carroll‟s Alice in Wonderland
- - - - Baum’s female heroine character, is portrayed as weak, helpless female character who cannot survive away from her dusty Kansas plains.
        
        the movie, however, portrays Dorothy as a weaker character who is always terrified and in need of her male friends’ help
      - as a viewer, these alterations blur the picture that Baum wanted his readers to see.
      - sexist and follows an anti-feminism mindset
      - In the movie, Dorothy seriously tries to escape her gray home
        
        she was misunderstood, a troublemaker
        
        then, she DREAMS of Oz
        
        she shortly realized how mistakenly she was thinking, therefore she was trying restlessly to return back home as soon as possible
        
        women are not capable to do anything that would lead them to escape their gray lives nor can they do anything that might bring a radical change
        
        growing gray is a matter that Dorothy has no control of
        
        oz = a bad dream
        
        is a place in which women have power and can do what they wish to a bad idea?
        
        this invalidates dorothy's experiences
        
        The movie’s writers reasoned that, “you cannot put fantastic people in strange places in front of an audience unless they have seen them as human beings first” (Harmetz 34).
        
        Suzan Rahn describes the critical response, saying: Most critics—and nearly every child who sees the movie—agree that the worst mistake was to explain away Dorothy’s adventures and Oz itself as a dream. “As art,” says Harmetz, “The movie is flawed by its sentimentality, by its cheerful insistence that ‘east, west, home is best,’ and by the decision to void Dorothy’s experience by making it into a dream” (229). [. . .] Whatever the film may have suggested about the power of dreams and aspirations, the journey through life, or the discovery of one’s own potential is effectively invalidated by this ending. (124)
        
        find a safe place for toto
        
        “no matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home" (p. 32-33).
        
        Dorothy wants to go home in the Wizard of Oz is because she doesn’t want to cause her family economic hardship
        
        "my greatest wish now," she added, "is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it" (p. 212).
        
        In this sense, Dorothy shows that she is growing up, becoming a responsible adult who cares about her family.
        
        while it is true that both the book and the movie portray Dorothy’s desire to go home, the degree of how anxious Dorothy is to go home varies significantly in both works.
        
        movie’s portrayal of Dorothy’s leaving her home as a big mistake and the exaggeration of Dorothy’s desire to go home only mean that there is no place for women away from their homes and their domestic lives and chores, an anti-feminist concept that is flatly contradicting with Baum’s perspective of women.
      - living in fear of the Wicked Witch of the West
      - eliminates many female characters
        
        underestimates the important role of the good Witch of the North
        
        this was the witch who gave her a mark on her forehead, showed her the yellow brick road and told her to keep the dead witch's shoes
        
        queen of mice
        
        helped the lion wake up and
        
        helped them find their way back to emerald city
        
        female stork
        
        saved the scarecrow in the river
        
        According to Ranjit S. Dighe, “in a populist interpretation, the Stork, who is a female, could represent the populists’ allies in the women suffrage movement”
        
        in the movie, all the characters she meets in oz represent real people from her life in kansas
        
        however,
- - - - these perceptions are, in part, perpetuated by the MEDIA
  - - - the story of
        Glinda, the Wicked Witch of the West, and the Wizard of Oz is once again at the forefront of
        American culture, bringing us images that we use to make meaning of the women and men in
        leadership and power in our own lives.