The Wizard Of Oz Analysis
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
All humans desire happiness in their lives on Earth. This is a fact that has been proven through time and space. From the struggle of Ireland and England in the early 1700s, to the Gilded Age in the United States, people in poor situations have wished for their stations and well-beings to improve. In L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, a young girl faces the struggles of growing up alone and neglected. Ireland shared this sentiment in regards to the brutal cruelty from its mother country. Both instances drew from the pain of the weary while they maintained faith in something greater. The people of Ireland and the imagination of a farm girl gave way to the sentiment that things will get better someday. The Wizard of …show more content…
On their farm, Dorothy’s life is simple and uneventful. She spends most of her days with her canine companion, Toto, and the three farmhands who work for her uncle. As a young girl of about fifteen, Dorothy has a relatively negative view of life. Her parents are not present due to an unknown circumstance, and she often expresses feelings of loneliness. When conflict arises and Dorothy feels scared, she tries to share her feelings with her aunt and uncle. They wave her off and tell her that she should find a place to be where she couldn’t get into any more trouble. Her imagination takes her to such a place when she muses aloud
Somewhere over the rainbow…the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. Someday I’ll wish upon a star and wake up…where troubles melt like lemon drops…If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why, oh why, can’t I?
In her mind, Dorothy wishes for a better place where all of the tragedy surrounding her life is irrelevant. She wants to be able to have her dreams come true, and she wants to be free in a better place. Her sadness regarding its improbability is understandable and warrants sympathy toward the end of her thought. Dorothy’s plight is one that many people can relate to. The feelings of hopelessness and desire are emotions that are often experienced by teenagers. Even in an older time, these emotions are valid. Sometimes all people want is to be heard, and she feels as though …show more content…
He was angered by the egotistical and greedy English influence upon the rich. The extremist tendencies of religious followers, coupled with the failure of politicians and their policies, pushed him to write a short essay called A Modest Proposal. In the beginning of this piece, Swift speaks of the growing turmoil in Ireland and how many of these problems are unnecessary and avoidable. In response, he proposes an alternate plan to combat these issues. He suggests that humans should begin eating babies and young children to make the poor people cease being a dominant problem to the wealthy. Using this solution, the parts of the children could be either eaten or sold off to become other valuable materials such as clothes and shoes. The populations would decrease, the fat would get fatter, the rich would get richer, and the whole problem would solve itself. This entire proposal is meant to horrify and shock the ones who are in power. Swift believes that he needs to assist in the effort of unifying the Irish people to stand up to England and Irish nobles and say that the life they are living is not adequate or
All humans desire happiness in their lives on Earth. This is a fact that has been proven through time and space. From the struggle of Ireland and England in the early 1700s, to the Gilded Age in the United States, people in poor situations have wished for their stations and well-beings to improve. In L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, a young girl faces the struggles of growing up alone and neglected. Ireland shared this sentiment in regards to the brutal cruelty from its mother country. Both instances drew from the pain of the weary while they maintained faith in something greater. The people of Ireland and the imagination of a farm girl gave way to the sentiment that things will get better someday. The Wizard of …show more content…
On their farm, Dorothy’s life is simple and uneventful. She spends most of her days with her canine companion, Toto, and the three farmhands who work for her uncle. As a young girl of about fifteen, Dorothy has a relatively negative view of life. Her parents are not present due to an unknown circumstance, and she often expresses feelings of loneliness. When conflict arises and Dorothy feels scared, she tries to share her feelings with her aunt and uncle. They wave her off and tell her that she should find a place to be where she couldn’t get into any more trouble. Her imagination takes her to such a place when she muses aloud
Somewhere over the rainbow…the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. Someday I’ll wish upon a star and wake up…where troubles melt like lemon drops…If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why, oh why, can’t I?
In her mind, Dorothy wishes for a better place where all of the tragedy surrounding her life is irrelevant. She wants to be able to have her dreams come true, and she wants to be free in a better place. Her sadness regarding its improbability is understandable and warrants sympathy toward the end of her thought. Dorothy’s plight is one that many people can relate to. The feelings of hopelessness and desire are emotions that are often experienced by teenagers. Even in an older time, these emotions are valid. Sometimes all people want is to be heard, and she feels as though …show more content…
He was angered by the egotistical and greedy English influence upon the rich. The extremist tendencies of religious followers, coupled with the failure of politicians and their policies, pushed him to write a short essay called A Modest Proposal. In the beginning of this piece, Swift speaks of the growing turmoil in Ireland and how many of these problems are unnecessary and avoidable. In response, he proposes an alternate plan to combat these issues. He suggests that humans should begin eating babies and young children to make the poor people cease being a dominant problem to the wealthy. Using this solution, the parts of the children could be either eaten or sold off to become other valuable materials such as clothes and shoes. The populations would decrease, the fat would get fatter, the rich would get richer, and the whole problem would solve itself. This entire proposal is meant to horrify and shock the ones who are in power. Swift believes that he needs to assist in the effort of unifying the Irish people to stand up to England and Irish nobles and say that the life they are living is not adequate or