The Wizard of Oz accurately described

It has been forty years since I read The Wizard of Oz, but the following discussion matches what I remember.

Regarding a host of issues, the video is most apt, and the allegorical interpretations are sound or otherwise useful.

 

Note: In the novel it is not Glinda but rather her sister (called Locasta or Tattypoo the Good Witch of the North) who meets Dorothy at the beginning of the story and puts Dorothy on her journey down the Yellow Brick Road. As the video explains, in the novel Dorothy meets Glinda the Good Witch of the South near the end of the story. Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the film is a composite character incorporating both Glinda and Locasta from the novel.