Wicked, the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the East is a fantasy book by Gregory Maguire. It follows the life of the Wicked Witch, the character from the Wizard of Oz, from her birth to her death, or her pseudo-death. It also explores the question the nature of good and evil. The main character is, of course, the Wicked Witch, Elphaba. She is born green, with really sharp teeth, and afraid of water. When she gets near water, she just gets really scared, and when she cries or a couple drops of water get on her it burns her. When she is still young her father, who is a minister, decides they will move to the Quadling country to try to convert the people there to the faith of the Unknown God. Elphaba is described many times …show more content…
Madame Morrible tries to get them to work for the Wizard, but she puts a spell on them so they won’t remember. Afterwards, Elphaba goes “underground” with a revolt against the Wizard. Fiyero spots her one day, and they start talking. Even though she tells him to go away for his own safety, he keeps meeting up with her and they have an affair. Elphaba tries to murder Madame Morrible but fails. Fiyero, who watched her, goes to her apartment, where members of the Wizard’s private army are waiting. When Elphaba comes back, she finds massive amounts of blood all around the room, but no body. She goes into shock, and seeks refuge with a religious order. It is implied she has a son but you never actually know because she was in a coma for the first year. She stays for seven years in all. Elphaba, with her son Liir, goes to the Vinkus to beg forgivness from Fiyero’s wife, Sarima. Sarima is dead set against Elphaba telling her anything upsetting, so Elphaba’s wish is never fulfilled. By now, Elphaba has learned a little magic from a book she found in Sarima’s library, but is actually from our, and the Wizard’s, world. Nessarose, who is now the ruler of Munchkinland and a witch, writes, and Elphaba goes to visit. While she is gone the Wizard’s forces storm the castle and carry off Sarima and her family, leaving only Liir. After seven years of unsuccessful search
Upon entering the circus, Edward spots a beautiful girl whom he vows to marry. However, she soon vanishes and he never learns her name. The ringmaster, Amos, agrees to provide Edward with clues about the girl each month that he works for him. He does everything Amos asks of him, which includes sticking his head in a lion’s mouth, washing an obese circus performer, cleaning up after the elephants, and being fired from a cannon. Edward completes every task with a smile knowing that he is one step closer to meeting his future wife.
epic story Wizard of OZ, the forest represents a place of evil and delight, but
In the book Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer the town of Salem starting going into a panic of the theory of witches from the fits of two girls. Everyone accusing each other, family is accusing family. Brothers are accusing brothers. Accused witches are taken to trial, but are the trials that fair? The trials were unfair because of the use of spectral evidence, the inability to testify for oneself, and the surprisingly unbiased judges.
In the beginning, Elodie Luria is a third child of a society that doesn't allow families to have three or more children. She is hiding with her three aunts and her grandmother trying not to get arrested by the population police. They manage to get her a fake ID and now she is identified as "Nina Idi". They send her away to another school so now she attends Harlow School for Girls. During the time she was there she starts to fall in love with this boy from Hendricks School for Boys named Jason. Later on, she was accused of finding other alleged third children. The population police arrest both Jason and Nina. She is given an option from the Population Police, she chose to talk to the Hating Man. He tells her. "get three other prisoners to admit they are shadow children and be spared, or cooperate and be killed." She is moved into another cell with three other children Matthias, Percy, and Alia. They
The movie starts off with a scene in the forest that was somewhat different to the play. What the characters do in that scene causes an abundant amount of people to believe that witchcraft is being
“Have you ever wondered if Magic or witches and wizards really exist in this modern world? Well yes, they do exist, and they are quite active in the modern world. There are more than 10 million witches in the United States, with new practitioners on the rise daily.”(Caine) Being a witch is much different than what you may have seen in the movies. There is real magic to the craft, but witches or wizards don 't walk around turning people into to frogs with a flick of their magic wands. They don 't disappear into thin air, nor do they fly around through the night on broomsticks. They also don 't live in a big castle or mansion. They walk around as normal people and you wouldn 't be able to tell them apart for anyone else. The art of real witchcraft is one of the oldest practices in the world. “The oldest instruments of the real craft that have been discovered date back to 40,000 years ago, while the practice of real witchcraft dates back to paleolithic times. It is very much a way of life, as you may have heard from the modern followers of Wicca. During the middle ages, and in the event known as The Inquisition, the practice of witchcraft became outlawed throughout most of the Christianized world, an offense punishable by death.”(Caine) A witchcraft frenzy broke out in the early colonial history of America in Salem, Massachusetts. Insane torture tactics were put in by the church to draw out confessions. This period of time is often cited as the start of "the burning times."
Anger and evil are main emotion that are portrayed in the book Wicked. These emotions are clear in Gregory Maguire's famous novel, Wicked, which was published in 1995 and takes place in the Land of Oz. This novel is one of Maguire’s bestselling books and in 2003 they decided to turn it into a musical and to this day it still gets performed to this day. Now Wicked is based on Oz therefor in the book there are many things that tie together the two books. Wicked is supposed to be a better version of The Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz was written many years before Wicked even though when looking at a timeline it shows Wicked should be first, then Oz. The book revolves around these two main Character Elphaba and Glinda, there are other characters
The modern film The Witch by Robert Eggers is set in the 1630’s in New England and follows a Puritan family in their struggles against witches and witchcraft after being banished from the Commonwealth. The story depicts the fears of witches and witchcraft from a Puritan perspective while drawing on portrayals from the Pagan and Christian tradition of the witch to reinforce this image. The Witch uses Pagan, Christian and Puritan concepts of witches and witchcraft to establish an superstitious atmosphere filled with fear, uncertainty and paranoia; this effect aims to represent a similar psychological state of mind the Puritans had towards witches during the Salem witch crisis. Firstly, the elements The Witch uses to develop this atmosphere are images of common witch familiars and animals that have been attributed to them throughout history. Secondly, witchcraft that have been believed to be performed by witches as well as their association with the devil establishes a sense of superstition. Finally, the personality and physical traits of the witch’s character is used to enhance the fearful atmosphere throughout the film. Appearances of animals and familiars associated with witches occur throughout the film and gives a foreboding sense of what is to come.
Throughout history, authors repeatedly create a witch character in their stories. However, authors depict witches differently as such, in The Wizard of Oz, the evil witch is portrayed with the classical black pointy hat, broom, with a green face. Conversely, in the Crucible ordinary girls were accused of being witches without possessing those qualities such as the typical witch hat. However, witches that are portrayed do have the common characteristic such as being female. As in earlier works during the Ancient Greek and Roman writings through the English Renaissance, authors’ portrayed witches (women) to be strong and of independent thought.
Fast forward and Elphaba has become part of the underground who wanted to take down the wizard. She began to have an affair with her college friend Fiyero. This was the first time Elphaba truly showed love towards somebody as her personality was a little cold, logical, and rebellious. Elphaba’s rebellious actions would lead to difficulty later on when she refused to kill innocent children as a casualty to her previous headmistress Madame Morrible, the reader later learns that Fiyero was killed as a punishment to Elphaba showing that her lesson was learned too late to save the love of her life and she becomes forlorn , not only does she lose Fiyero but her self identity is gone and she has a negative view of herself because her dad has taught her it was wrong , also you see that she begins to lose her sanity due to the Wizard and the news that he is her father so although she learns a lesson she learns the lesson in the negative
The witches have an enormous effect on the play, not only are they evil, but this is emphasised by the strong feelings against witches and witchcraft in Elizabethan times. Convicted witches were regularly tortured and even executed. Most people believed in witches and there was little opposition against this persecution. This was not helped by the fact that the king, James 1 was also interested in this superstition, often, he
Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a fictional representation of many problems faced by the world in the past and present. It follows the life of Elphaba, who later becomes the “Wicked Witch of the West”, a result from her life experiences as a rebel against the Wizard of Oz, her unfortunate appearance of green skin, and several other trials she’s faced. Maguire was born in Albany, New York and lost his mother in childbirth. His father was a writer, but was very ill at the time of Maguire’s birth, so he and his three older siblings had to stay with family and Maguire even spent time in an orphanage before moving back with his father and his new wife. His family
Title of the Work: Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of The West
The Magician, the Witch, and the Law was a timeline of the people, events, and documents that significantly influenced the development of magic and witchcraft persecution. Edward Peters formed his timeline beginning with early Christianity and ending with the sixteenth century. The study argued that these people, events, and documents led to the persecution and burning of witches in the seventeenth century. The timeline began with the explanation of harsh Greek and Roman laws against magos. The laws were harsh because magic was a disruption of society and the cause of political instability (9). Magos were practitioners of magic or those who used the power of divine or demonic sources. Christians were primarily concerned with first proving that
Whether in the present or in memory, Ebere has a profound effect on the plot. The story of her life with her husband, as told by Nwoye, is one of the most prominent recurring storylines, and although it is told in parallel to the conversation with Ikenna that is the most “real” in terms of events, it is arguably the dominant