![]() ![]() The Marvelous Land of Oz follows Tip and Jack Pumpkinhead, who escape from the evil witch Mombi before she can transform the boy into stone. ![]() Included in A Wonderful Welcome to Oz are three Oz books: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and The Emerald City of Oz. It's a comment on power: Who has it? Privileged or poor, smart or dumb, educated or not, good or evil, male or female? What kind of person has the capacity to utilize this power? And what exactly is this power? ![]() What he wrote instead is surprisingly deep and philosophical. Frank Baum wanted to write novels without a moral for children. The power of men, it is suggested, is illusory the power of women is real."Īpparently, L. They are both women, and a striking aspect of The Wizard of Oz is its lack of a male hero. I think it would be best to start with a quote from "A Short Text About Magic" by Salman Rushdie that was provided by the publisher (about the 1939 MGM film, The Wizard of Oz): "Glinda and the Witch of the West are the only two symbols of power in a film which is largely about the powerless, and it's instructive to 'unpack' them. ![]()
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