The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Themes

In Oz, who you are isn't always as important as who people think you are. The entire kingdom perceives Dorothy as a powerful sorceress because she killed the Wicked Witch of the East, but she sees...

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, hard work is well rewarded. It's a good thing, too, because Dorothy and her friends work very, very hard—often against odds that seem insurmountable. Most of the ti...

The Wizard of Oz begins with Dorothy being uprooted from her home and ends with her returning to it. And in the time in between these two events, she mostly talks about wanting to get back there. D...

When Dorothy arrives in Oz, she finds herself in a strange land feeling very alone (unless you count the company of her little dog). But on the yellow brick road, she befriends the Scarecrow, the T...

Good versus evil is a classic fairy tale theme, and in The Wizard of Oz, it's embodied most clearly in the characters of the good witches (of the north and south) and the wicked witches (of the eas...

Dorothy and her friends have a dream. Well, they have four of them, actually. Stop us if you've heard this one before. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy wants nothing more than to go home, the Scarecrow...

Wherever there are hopes and dreams, you will find disappointments. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her friends endure them over and over and over again. But all their letdowns have one thing in c...

In The Wizard of Oz, power is a slippery concept. Sometimes characters find power in unexpected places, like a field mouse or a pair of fancy shoes. Other times it is missing in places they expect...