| Monomyth (WizardOfOz) |
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| IPTC INFO | | Caption | Broadcast regularly on television throughout the fifties and sixties few films have attained the kind of cultural icon status that Victor Fleming’s 1939 cinematic production of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz has. “The Wizard of Oz” is a tale ripe with potential for dealing with the postmodern issue of gender. Oz is one of the few instances in American literature and cinema where a young girl an orphan is the central protagonist throughout. ______________ HEROINE'S JOURNEY:“The Wizard” has proven unusually fruitful for further understanding the issue of coming-of-age. Dorothy’s appearance on the screen in the person of Judy Garland suggests something of the dynamics of the issue of an adolescent girl blooming into a young woman. Dorothy’s has become alienated from home in Kansas and discovers that no one will listen to her concerns. Her song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” then becomes an expression of her “call to adventure ” the sense of the lure of the great beyond. If the Yellow Brick Road is the venue for Dorothy’s coming of age her three companions become the means of grace by which her transformation from girlhood to maturity is achieved. What characterizes each of Dorothy’s friends is their lack of skills “necessary for effective living within the social order.” It is only as a band of “called together ones ” that they can adapt to their environment and emerge successful. | | Keywords | oz | | Copyright Notice | wiki/Talk:Monomyth | | URL | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Monomyth |
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