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Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz
The film The Wizard of Oz is definitely about the concept of
returning home. This is made clear throughout the film. Dorothy's entire
time in Oz is spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then when she gets
back home she tells Aunt Em that "all I kept saying to everybody was ‘I
want to go home.'" This fits perfectly with the time, 1939, that The
Wizard of Oz was produced. One reason was that due to the depression, many
people were forced away from their homes and into cities. Another reason
was that America was on the verge of entering into another war, WWII....
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