Then she went back to the house, and having helped herself and Toto to a good drink of the cool, clear water, she set about making ready for the journey to the City of Emeralds.ĭorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed. Dorothy went to get him, and saw such delicious fruit hanging from the branches that she gathered some of it, finding it just what she wanted to help out her breakfast. Toto ran over to the trees and began to bark at the birds sitting there. She gave some to Toto, and taking a pail from the shelf she carried it down to the little brook and filled it with clear, sparkling water. So she went to the cupboard and cut herself some bread, which she spread with butter. When Dorothy was left alone she began to feel hungry. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! With this in mind, this project reveals ecophobia as a lynchpin of American manhood.The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. The figure of the witch is a force of nature and a part of nature. She is a figure who is both marginal and marginalized-a non-normative threat to the social order. This research has revealed how the figure of the witch moves through multiple narrative forms across the history of American literature and culture as a figure for the ugly, wicked, or the abject side of nature. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Andrew Fleming’s 1996 film The Craft, are American products from the twentieth and twenty-first-century however, my research spans from the seventeenth-century to contemporary time. The texts I analyze, Robert Egger’s 2016 film The Witch, L. Worry cultivates fear, and both untamable nature and women have been feared, since together they threaten masculine identity and the structure of American patriarchy. This male subjectivity has often left men, from generation to generation, in a continuous existential angst over their position within their home, community, and nation.
Throughout American history, men have worked to maintain certain expectations for what it means to be an American man.
Though she represents many things, this thesis examines the relationship between witches and nature-specifically, the discarded parts of nature. The figure of the witch is forever ingrained in American history and culture, and her powers still hold much strength today as she manages to linger and scratch at the American psyche.
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