The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

Celebrity Profiles

In L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation, the Wizard gives the Tin Man a clock-shaped heart-shaped watch to symbolize his capacity...

literature

The Wicked Witch of the East is a figure from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, serving as a background but pivotal presence in the story of Dorothy and the Land of...

book_clarity

“The original wicked book” is not a formal title but a phrase people use when they mean a foundational, notorious, or landmark work that popularized the idea of wickedness i...

literature

The Cowardly Lion in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is far more than a timid sideshow; he is a thoughtfully constructed figure who embodies the tension between fea...

literature

In L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , Dorothy’s slippers are described as silver.

character-analysis

The Wicked Witch of the West appears in L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and is notably amplified in the 1939 MGM film adaptation. In Baum’s books, the...

literature

In Gregory Maguire’s 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the later musical, Dorothy Gale is a Kansas-born outsider who arrive...

Oz Family & Relationships

The Wizard of Oz is not Elphaba’s father. In L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , the Wizard is a deceptive outsider who arrives in Oz in a hot-air balloo...

Oz Mythos

The question "what did the cowardly lion get" refers to the outcome for one of L. Frank Baum’s main characters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In the story, the Cowardly Lion r...

literature

In L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy takes the silver shoes after the Good Witch of the East instructs her to keep them and after they kill the Wicked Witch...