Today Google pays tribute to The Wizard of Oz , in the seventy-first anniversary, this 1939 film adaptation of the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1900. The film tells the story of Dorothy and his three traveling companions (a lion, a scarecrow, a Tin Woodman) to be able to return home after the girl was thrown by a cyclone in Oz from his home in Kansas where live with his aunt and uncle and the dog Toto. Our thoughts turn to a similar previous novel: Alice in Wonderland (1865) and its main transpositions for the cinema: that of 1951 that Disney and the 2010 Tim Burton. This novel has always caused big problems in translation because chock full of allusions, figures of speech and proverbs. A closer look The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not only a book of fiction for children, as many want. But it is an allegory of monetary policy of the United States at the end of 1800. We read on Wikipedia: "Between 1880 and 1896, there was a massive unexpected as deflation, which caused a drastic fall in prices in the U.S. economy (23% approx).. Since most of the peasants' west of the country were indebted to the banks of the East, when prices fell, the real value of debts increased and banks are significantly enriched at the expense of farmers. "
L ' allegory is a continued metaphor. This figure of speech, uses a ' central image and around it sketches out a series of analogies. One of the best known allegories is that in Dante's Divine Comedy when used as an allegory of a lion pride and violence, to a wolf as an allegory of avarice and greed, the panther as an allegory of lust. Like all the figures of speech derived from the greek and in its etymology, we read in Dictionary of Rhetoric and stylistics Utet the one hand it means say and other participate . If we then the figure is Prince of communication and storytelling. In the Middle Ages it was because he made great use of the very fabric of art. Think of the enormous production of symbols and allegories throughout the medieval period this year are, for example, the lions now the symbol of the Gospel of Mark, now a symbol of the fight against heresy. It is no coincidence that Dario has found a series of allegories not only in medieval minstrels and the stories of his repertoire but also in its art lesson on the Cathedral of Modena . As it is no accident that the allegory are very frequent in Roman de la Rose and Divine Comedy.
After the Middle Ages the allegory was abandoned and only works as Gulliver's Travels (J. Swift) and Paradise Lost (J . Milton) took up the first total eclipse during the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The twentieth century has revived if we think Animal Farm (G. Orwell) and to 'Ulysses (J. Joyce) and the novel we're talking about, written by Lyman Frank Baum.
We have already emphasized the intimate link between stories and problem solving in the post Zen and the art of narrating the problems . Here I only remember that where there is a problem you can tell a story because the story is just the story of how we have overcome the problem (as did Little Red Riding Hood to come out from the belly of the wolf?). And where there is a story or are there more stories we have to deal with problems (think of the adventures of Ulysses). Well, The Wizard of Oz tells us four main problems:
- as Dorothy will return home to ?
- How will the scarecrow have a brain ?
- How will the Tin Woodman to have a heart ?
- How will the Cowardly Lion to have the courage ?
Almost all of these questions give an answer to the Wizard of Oz. To do adopt techniques and strategies of illusionistic thought, of which we have dealt with in this blog. In fact, for the scarecrow and the woodman uses of simulacra: a slime Bran and pins in his head like the scarecrow brain and a heart of crimson silk, filled with sand as the heart of the Tin Woodman. While the lion used to 'placebo effect giving him a potion to give. As we have said about the thought of a magician illusionist (magician) does not make the impossible possible because the impossible is inherently impossible precisely. But it makes the impossible possible masking what he does, play around, but especially by distracting the audience betrayed its vertical logic, and then causing her to wonder made to him inexplicable. All he does is explained, however, perfectly because it relies on elements that are part of this physical world, but its effects seem impossible. And 'This is the secret to imitate in thinking alternative to our problem.
Allegory is thus a major tool of rhetoric in the story of our problem, that problem telling , which is the next step of defining the problem (the problem setting ) in the process of problem solving . E 'in the nature of allegory something to inform and to involve others in doing their share an idea, a project, a need, problem, etc.. And 'This is the actual concept of social networks that are such to the extent that they network around a topic of interest, a goal etc.. Nodes of this network are those people who are looking for resources or make them available to others for free or under consideration or in the form of trade at par. The allegory may then key to that gives us a different view of reality that often seems either black or indefinable, which gives us alternative often unpredictable in the face of a problem, providing us with a series of ideas often breathtaking. It also allows us to tell our problem having fun and not boring others. Finally, with it we can tell our positions in an indirect way to avoid these clashes, quell'acrimonia, those misunderstandings that are created with the direct account.
As you told your problem? You never used a figure of speech to do it?
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