I FOUND the letters by JL Wilks and Charlie Kay concerning Animal Farm very interesting (HAS, May 23), but I wonder if either gent has considered “The Wizard of Oz”?

Within the land of Oz people were raised to believe that simply because of the wizard’s ancestry he was there by divine will.

They believed that he somehow had the answer to all the questions and that his education, titles and social position made him somehow better than everyone else. These beliefs made people bow before him.

Then one day a young girl stopped bowing, looked up and drew back the curtain.

In doing so she found a man who was there by a lucky accident and not divine will.

In one sense The Wizard of Oz is a fiction, in another he is every monarch, every political and religious leader past or present.

CT Riley, Spennymoor.