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Return to Oz: Ozbusting Assumptions
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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8393484" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>I feel like Oz started out more violent under Baum and then he moved away from it as time passed. In the first book the only reason Dorothy is safe from death is the spell that the Good Witch puts on her in Munchkinland with her kiss. The Tin Woodman slaughters first a pack of talking wolves, then a swarm of talking crows, and finally a whole bunch of bees that the Witch sent to kill them - and it's explicitly said that she's sending them to kill the group - she doesn't realize that Dorothy is under a spell of protection until the flying monkeys defeat the group and bring Dorothy to the castle.</p><p></p><p>By the later books he's saying "nobody dies in Oz" but his first book at least is very strongly influenced by Grimm fairy tales, and the possibility of death was always around in a fairy tale.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8393484, member: 19857"] I feel like Oz started out more violent under Baum and then he moved away from it as time passed. In the first book the only reason Dorothy is safe from death is the spell that the Good Witch puts on her in Munchkinland with her kiss. The Tin Woodman slaughters first a pack of talking wolves, then a swarm of talking crows, and finally a whole bunch of bees that the Witch sent to kill them - and it's explicitly said that she's sending them to kill the group - she doesn't realize that Dorothy is under a spell of protection until the flying monkeys defeat the group and bring Dorothy to the castle. By the later books he's saying "nobody dies in Oz" but his first book at least is very strongly influenced by Grimm fairy tales, and the possibility of death was always around in a fairy tale. [/QUOTE]
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