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The national capital, the Emerald City, is a dream-like place based on the "White City," the common name for the Chicago World's fair of 1893, which Baum and Denslow attended often. The emerald green is an illusion (everyone must wear green glasses), symbolizing the fraudulent world of greenback paper money that only pretends to have value.  

The national capital, the Emerald City, is a dream-like place based on the "White City," the common name for the Chicago World's fair of 1893, which Baum and Denslow attended often. The emerald green is an illusion (everyone must wear green glasses), symbolizing the fraudulent world of greenback paper money that only pretends to have value.  

[[Image:Image:DOROTHY1.JPG|thumb|300px|Denslow's drawing of scarecrow hung up on pole and helpless, from 1st edition of book, 1900]]

[[Image:DOROTHY1.JPG|thumb|300px|Denslow's drawing of scarecrow hung up on pole and helpless, from 1st edition of book, 1900]]

The Wizard/president is annoyed by his guests -- by the demands of the people. He is a corrupt politician, a shrewd manipulator who seeks power for himself, ignores the needs of the people, and rules by fooling with people's minds. He selfishly sends them to destroy his enemy, the Wicked Witch of the West.  If she gets them, he is rid of a nuisance.  If they kill her, great--he will be pleased and then worry what to do next.   

The Wizard/president is annoyed by his guests -- by the demands of the people. He is a corrupt politician, a shrewd manipulator who seeks power for himself, ignores the needs of the people, and rules by fooling with people's minds. He selfishly sends them to destroy his enemy, the Wicked Witch of the West.  If she gets them, he is rid of a nuisance.  If they kill her, great--he will be pleased and then worry what to do next.   

*Dorothy, naive, young and simple, represents the American people. She is Everyman, lost in a crazy utopia who wants to get back to normalcy and the love of her family. She resembles the young hero of ''Coin's financial school'', a very popular silverite pamphlet of 1893.  In her innocence and purity she is all powerful and personally kills two witches--she is Columbia, the symbol of the nation's conscience.  Columbia was the usual representation of democracy in editorial cartoons (since replaced by the Statue of Libery.)  

*Dorothy, naive, young and simple, represents the American people. She is Everyman, lost in a crazy utopia who wants to get back to normalcy and the love of her family. She resembles the young hero of ''Coin's financial school'', a very popular silverite pamphlet of 1893.  In her innocence and purity she is all powerful and personally kills two witches--she is Columbia, the symbol of the nation's conscience.  Columbia was the usual representation of democracy in editorial cartoons (since replaced by the Statue of Libery.)  

[[Image:OZ5-2-94.jpg|thumb|300px|Cyclone as metaphor for political revolution; the Aunt-Em-type farm woman is labeled 'Democratic Party';  ''Puck'' May 2, 1894]]

[[Image:OZ5-2-94.JPG|thumb|300px|Cyclone as metaphor for political revolution; the Aunt-Em-type farm woman is labeled 'Democratic Party';  ''Puck'' May 2, 1894]]

*The cyclone was used in the 1890s as a metaphor for a political revolution that would transform the drab country into a land of color and unlimited prosperity.  The cyclone was used by editorial cartoonists of the 1890s to represent political upheaval.

*The cyclone was used in the 1890s as a metaphor for a political revolution that would transform the drab country into a land of color and unlimited prosperity.  The cyclone was used by editorial cartoonists of the 1890s to represent political upheaval.

* The oil needed by the Tin Woodman had a political dimension at the time because Rockefeller's [[Standard Oil]] Company stood accused of being a monopoly (which was later ruled correct in a lawsuit brought by the federal government, and ultimately affirmed by the US Supreme Court.) In the 1902 stage adaptation the Tin Woodman wonders what he would do if he ran out of oil. "You wouldn't be as badly off as John D. Rockefeller," the Scarecrow responds, "He'd lose six thousand dollars a minute if that happened."<ref>Swartz, ''Oz'' p 34</ref>

* The oil needed by the Tin Woodman had a political dimension at the time because Rockefeller's [[Standard Oil]] Company stood accused of being a monopoly (which was later ruled correct in a lawsuit brought by the federal government, and ultimately affirmed by the US Supreme Court.) In the 1902 stage adaptation the Tin Woodman wonders what he would do if he ran out of oil. "You wouldn't be as badly off as John D. Rockefeller," the Scarecrow responds, "He'd lose six thousand dollars a minute if that happened."<ref>Swartz, ''Oz'' p 34</ref>

[[Image:Tin3.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Sapolio soap ad shows Tin Man]]

[[Image:Image:TIN3.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Sapolio soap ad shows Tin Man]]