Elphaba

perspective, it is seen through Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West’s eyes. When reading a narrative, it is important to understand many of the symbols to get a better understanding of the characters and theme. Wicked follows Elphaba’s life while she undergoes prejudices of others along with dilemmas with being different. As Maguire builds the storyline he utilizes symbols to convey a more in depth perspective of the novel. To begin, the first symbol that could represent Elphaba and her fear is water. Water

setting. The two plots are so masterfully intertwined, but showing two very different points of view. Although they share so many similarities, relationships and conflicts between the two are very different. Glinda maybe isn’t so good after all, Elphaba was just trying to do what was right, and the Wizard was the real villain all along. To truly see things as they really are, both sides of a story must be acknowledged and understood, or else someone else’s story will be lost. The Wizard of Oz is

“Well if that’s love, it comes at much to high a cost.” Wicked is about the life of Elphaba before and after she became the Wicked Witch of the West. It follows Elphaba as she goes to Shiz University and she meets and becomes friends with Galinda, soon to be Glinda. It also shows you her journey to Oz and her interactions with the Wizard. She leaves Oz and Glinda and struggles to maintain her values and her beliefs. In the play Wicked by Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz, Holzman and Schwartz

elements along with sophisticated musical techniques. The song The wizard and I is the 3 piece of the musical, expanding on the notion of Elphaba’s dreams in which Elphaba and the Wizard accomplish great things that could be the useful to the Wizard of Oz. The song starts off with a short soliloquy performed by Elphaba (insert Time) in which Elphaba expresses her longing to coincide with the wizard to use

People need to learn to own up to their mistakes and to take responsibility for their actions. In the play, Nessa blames Elphaba for turning Boq into a tin man, but it was Nessa’s fault for chanting from the spell book and shrinking Boq’s heart. Nessa states, “Elphaba, do something! This is all your fault! If you hadn’t shown me that horrendible book.” (Holzman 2.2) Elphaba was trying to help Boq, but a spell cannot be reversed once it is cast. When someone has gotten their way their whole life

by Gregory Maguire a change in the main character's heart turned into the death of a loved one and disarrangement of her entire life. But to get into this you need to know the beginning. Elphaba was born in Munchkinland, her dad a preacher of sorts and her mom the granddaughter of the ruler of Munchkinland. Elphaba was born with green skin which caused her to be discriminated against from a young age even by her own parents. Later on she went to college and there she met what would be her best friends

revealed something about ourselves, for our midterm I had no clue what I was going to do. Through lots of brainstorming I came up with the idea of having half of my mask be Glinda the Good Witch, from Wicked and Wizard of Oz, and the other half be Elphaba, or the Wicked Witch of the West, from the same shows. My first reason for choosing this design was the fact that it reveals my love for the theatre, and musicals particularly. That was something about myself that I felt I could reveal pretty easily

Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Wicked is about Elphaba better known as the Wicked Witch of

Ok so what even just happened today. I literally let this green girl and her friend see the real me and she ran away. Her friend was not as bad, but Elphaba knows way too much about the animal activity situation. I heard from my guards after that she flew off on her broom, which raises some eyebrows. I know Elphaba has some good intentions but she should not have just ran off like that after I let her in on all of this. I let her in on the spells and the magic flying monkeys that we use as surveillance

Marxist Lens in Wicked 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