This narrative interpretation demonstrates key symbolic features of mythico-ritual (initiatory) structure in the initial stage of Baum’s modern fairy tale. The second part of the study applies Campbell’s model to the text of Baum’s Oz narrative in both its cinematic and literary forms, examining Baum’s tale for archetypal features described in Campbell’s model of the initial stage of the “leitmotif of the monomyth.” This comparative analysis emphasizes the myth-motif of the threshold passage accompanied by sequentially interconnected, recurring myth-motifs identified by Campbell and associated with the initial stage of Dorothy Gale’s transformational journey, i.e., separation from ordinary reality. Jung’s theories and methods as well as other key sources. This two-part study begins with a theoretical overview contextualizing The Wizard of Oz, as mythopoeic literature, and Campbell’s hero quest paradigm, informed by Carl G. Frank Baum, represents a modern example of mythologist Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero quest myth. He didn’t expect me to do it alone, and He didn’t give brownie points even if I did.The 1939 family classic film, The Wizard of Oz, based on the beloved children’s tale by L. The tears began to flow as I slumped on the floor, piles all around me. “How would I get it all done? How would I handle it all myself?”Īlmost as if I’d whispered those questions aloud, I sensed a quiet answer come from within, “You’re not meant to.
One after the other, the waves came and threatened to pull me under. I felt like I was stranded in an ocean on a raft, madly trying to paddle both sides at once to get to level ground. I was still expected at work, deadlines loomed, and company would arrive soon with hardly a straight path on which to walk. When life is cluttered, disorganized, and rushed around me, I tend to feel ill-at-ease inside.Īfter an unexpected move, furniture and boxes piled on top of each other lined the walls of every room in our house. Internally I felt as chaotic as my surroundings looked on the outside.
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