※ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum.
characters:
Dorothy : she is a young girl who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry and her little dog Toto
Scarecrow : he reveals that he lacks a brain and desires above all else to have one.
Tin Woodman : he desires for a heart.
Cowardly Lion : he wants bravery.
※ Glinda
The Good Witch of the South, commonly named Glinda, is a fictional character in the Land of Oz
no name → good witch of North
※ L. Frank Baum was an American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
※ Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel, Remembrance of Things Past.
He is considered by many to be one of the greatest authors of all time.
※ George Bernard Shaw was a Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning Irish playwright, critic and socialist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics stretched from the 1880s to his death in 1950.
He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize (Literature, 1925) and an Academy Award (Best Adapted Screenplay, 1938), the first for his contributions to literature and the second for his film adaptation of his most popular play, Pygmalion.
※ Pygmalion (problem play )
The screenplay was later adapted into the 1956 theatrical musical My Fair Lady, which in turn led to the 1964 film of the same name.
※ Pygmalion effect is the phenomenon whereby higher expectations lead to an increase in performance.
※ Pygmalion (mythology) is a legendary figure of Cyprus.
Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved. (Galatea)
the plot explores issues of humanity, slavery, prejudice, maturity, intellectual freedom, conformity, sex, love, and mortality.
※ Simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things through the explicit use of connecting words (such as like, as, so, than, or various verbs such as resemble).
Metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two. While a simile compares two items, a metaphor directly equates them, and does not use "like" or "as" as does a simile.
※ " Deck the Halls " is a traditional Christmas, yuletide, and New Years' carol.
※ Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
※ Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of an American family living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904.
music :
" Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas "
lyric
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
It may be your last
Next year we may all be living in the past
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Pop that champagne cork
Next year we may all be living in New York.
● terri - : land
terrier
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