Questions about The Wizard of Oz
Context :
- the movie
- why so many versions?
Perry:
Baum as American/ world of pop fiction
Concretization:
- covers—why do some depict a pair of red shoes?
- illustrations—help? hinder?
- geography of Oz, groups of people—color coded, etc.
- Kansas vs. Oz
- light vs. dark places
Character:
- characters with a history (but what about Dorothy?)
- blindness to self-worth
- Dorothy: gender stereotypes? lippy? never scared? always
in control? attitudes towards her?
Perry:
good companions/ companions as opposite to others?
Plot:
- fast pace
- orderly progression—repeated elements
- no flow—lack of tension, building suspense?
- easy solutions (kill "the bad")
- inconsistency
- no antagonist for a long time? home vs. witch?
- who or what is antagonist? what's the problem?
- loose ends
- little about Kansas (beginning and end)
- happy ending, but lacking, abrupt
Perry:
episodic world—expandable/ problem, problem solved, etc.—overriding
plot line?
Theme:
- teamwork
- empowerment
- belief in yourself
- why brains/heart/courage specifically? values of the time?
- freedom—but end up ruling (especially men)
- discussion of what is good/evil
- violence
- appearance vs. reality—brains, heart, etc.; Oz/emerald
city; Oz vs. Kansas; shoes, power etc.
- gender stereotyping?
Perry:
knowledge and innocence/ fantasy that mistrusts fantasy?
Structure:
- appearance vs. reality—brains heart, etc.; Oz/emerald
city; shoes, power etc.
- repeated lines
- geography of Oz, groups of people—colour coded, etc.
- race/colour—implications?
- displaying characteristics they don't have
- why doesn’t the dog talk? (hierarchies of characters)
- Kansas vs. Oz
- light vs. dark places
Perry:
ditto episodic world points as listed under plot?
Focalization?
Perry:
character and interest of storyteller/ whose p.o.v.?
The
Whole?