What the “Wizard of Oz” is Really About!

I got kick out of 7 Theories of What the Wizard of Oz is Really About by Bilge Ebiri for Venture.com.  Hopefully you will too.

Here are tidbits from my three favorite theories in the article…

Religious Allegory

In this theory, The Wizard of Oz is seen… as an allegory of faith…The Yellow Brick Road is the path to enlightenment, with the characters encountering a variety of emblems of sin and temptation along the way toward the Emerald City, which is a kind of a heaven… the Wicked Witch is killed with water, suggesting baptism…

Atheist Allegory

Hilariously, this theory I.D.’s almost all the same elements as the religious allegory, but then interprets them in the opposite direction — that is, God, a.k.a. the Wizard, isn’t real, there’s a mortal behind the curtain, and all that spiritual mumbo jumbo is illusory…

The Glinda Conspiracy Theory

…Glinda the Good Witch might actually be the true villain of Oz…  Glinda gloats a bit too morbidly over the death of the Wicked Witch of the East, calling for celebrations and then actually taunting the witch’s sister… that Glinda… knows the ruby slippers will send Dorothy home, hides this fact from Dorothy and sends the unwitting girl off to do her dirty work for her, all so she herself can finally rule over the land of Oz…

Check out the article to read these three complete theories as well as the other four.