February 3, 1999

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Term Paper Title	February 3, 1999
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                                   February 3, 1999

     THE WIZARD OF OZ BY  L. FRANK BAUM

(transformed into an allegory)

#1     When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun has burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else. This symbolizes Baum’s view of the prairie.

#2
a) Land of Oz: Gilded Age Society
b) OZ: Represents an important part of the silverite coalition, and anyone familiar with the  silverites' slogan "16 to 1"--that is, the ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold--would have instantly recognized "Oz" as the abbreviation for "ounce."
c) Wicked Witch of the East: The eastern industrialists and bankers who control the America people.
d) Emerald City: Washington D.C.
e) Wizard of OZ: Any of the Gilded Age presidents
f) Dorothy:  Represents “everyman” as well as Mary Lease, the Kansas firebrand who told her neighbors to raise less corn and more hell."
g) Yellow Brick Road: The gold standard
h) Silver Shoes: The free and unlimited coinage of silver
i) Scarecrow: The wise but naïve western farmer
j) Tin Woodsman: The dehumanized industrial worker
k) Lion: William Jennings Bryan, Populist presidential candidate in 1896
l) Witch of the West: Populism itself/Railroad owners and barons
m) Flying Monkey: Plains Indians
n) Munchkin People: The American People

#3     the tale of OZ paints a bleak impression of farm life during the late 1800's. America was slowly moving away from being an Agrarian society. With the combined effects of low prices, plagues, droughts, blizzards of 1886-1887 and the juggling of freight rates, which created greater pressure on the farmer.

#4     The Wicked Witches of the East and the West were enemies and so The Wicked Witch of the East could have been Grover Cleveland; and the West, William McKinley. Both who weren't regarded with the best of intentions by Bryan or Baum.

#5     The Wicked Witch of the West represents the Railroad owners and barons that monopolized many other companies.  Therefore, Baum uses Dorothy to symbolize Franklin ...

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