{"id":7979,"date":"2013-03-12T01:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T05:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2013-03-12T05:35:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:35:25","slug":"what-the-wizard-of-oz-is-really-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7979","title":{"rendered":"What the “Wizard of Oz” is Really About!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got kick out of 7 Theories of What the Wizard of Oz is Really About<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by Bilge Ebiri<\/strong> for Venture.com<\/strong>. \u00a0Hopefully you will too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here are tidbits from\u00a0my three favorite theories in<\/strong>\u00a0the article…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Religious Allegory<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this theory,\u00a0The Wizard of Oz<\/i>\u00a0is 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…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Atheist Allegory<\/b><\/p>\n

Hilariously, this theory I.D.’s almost all the same elements as the religious allegory, but then interprets them in the opposite direction \u2014 that is, God, a.k.a. the Wizard, isn\u2019t real, there\u2019s a mortal behind the curtain, and all that spiritual mumbo jumbo is illusory…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Glinda Conspiracy Theory<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Glinda the Good Witch might actually be the true villain of\u00a0Oz…\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0Glinda gloats a bit too morbidly\u00a0over the death of the Wicked Witch of the East, calling for celebrations and then actually taunting the witch\u2019s 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…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the article<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to read these three complete theories as well as the other four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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