The Wizard Of Oz Essay: Scarecrow

WIZARD OF OZ ESSAY
SCARECROW

“Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity.
Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth...
or slinks through slimy seas has abrain.
Back where I come from, we have universities
seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers.
They think deep thoughts,
and with no more brains than you have.
But theyhave one thing you haven't got. A diploma!”
(The Wizard of Oz)

At the moment Dorothy meets the Scarecrow, she’s just asked about which road she must keep on walking on her way to the Emerald Citywhere the Wizard of Oz lives in so that she can return to Kansas with his help. The Scarecrow is stuck with a pole up his back and Dorothy helps him so that he can get down of it and when he finallygets on the ground, and after a brief talk, he expresses his desire to have a brain. He claims that he’s made of straw and hasn´t got a brain and that’s why he thinks of himself as a failure and startshis way to Oz bearing the hope that the Wizard can give him some brains.
Although he says he’s not smart, he tells Dorothy how to get apples from “talking” trees in a very smart way: the Scarecrowbothers them and the trees start throwing apples. That’s a really funny scene.
Along the whole movie this character shows an amazing ability to create plans and make decisions in order to help thefriends he meets following the yellow brick road. He’s not as fool as he thinks he is. That’s an illusion of his.
The relationship that the Scarecrow of the Land of Oz has with Dorothy’s real life isthat Hunk is represented by him. At the beginning of the movie Hunk suggests that Dorothy has a brain made of straw because she doesn´t use it. If so, she wouldn’t go through Miss Gulch’s place withToto and wouldn’t get into trouble.
The Scarecrow, I think, is the most adorable character, because he’s brave, lovely and smart. The only black point in him is his lack of self confidence, because...