Baum denied his works were so, but many believe comparison to contemporary events would refute his claim. In the past fairy tales and nursery rhymes were written as political allegory. This is not dissimilar to the first pair of heeled pumps worn by a young teenager going to her high school ball and may well, at least in part, account for the phenomena which surrounds adult footwear. When Glinda puts the shoes on Dorothy's feet and says,Īt first the ruby slippers seem like blight as she tries to escape the Wicked Witch of the West, but eventually Dorothy comes to understand their magical power, just as a girl comes to understand the mysteries of reproduction. The character does not look for the shoes neither is she aware of them (pre-pubescent). Shoes are often a metaphor for the vagina and the imagery suggests menstruation. Red in fairy tales represents blood and changing the colour of her shoes to ruby red may have had symbolic significance. Many experts believe the shoes represent a rite of passage, once mastered open new delights for the owner and all who love her. The ruby slippers with 2,300 sequence have their own fan club and a number of websites all dedicated to Dorothy’s foot attire. They have left such a deep impression with fantasists and movie goers that there is an entire book written on the history of Dorothy’s shoes. Now we could not contemplate these classic shoes in any other way. Dorothy (Gale) also had a costume change and did not wear Ruby slippers as seen in the film version of L.Frank Baum’s The wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), but wore silver shoes instead. In the original Cinderella her shoes was made of fur but due to bad translation from the original French, became glass for the Disney movie. Why should the truth get in the way of a good fairy tale?
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