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However, the rich students prefer not to acknowledge this disparity. This creates an obvious class division between Elphaba and most students at the Shiz. Glinda, like many students at the Shiz, is a typical spoiled private school student. To make matters worse, the "great" Wizard of Oz endorses segregation and stereotyping of various ethnic groups animals.Īs the story continues, Elphaba interacts with Glinda, then known as Galinda, at Shiz Univeristy. On numerous occasions, Elphaba is discriminated against. Right away, there is a clear distinction between Elphaba and the other people of Oz. The story opens with Elphaba, an average young girl who happens to have green skin. Here are just two political statements that are made in "Wicked": Divisions Are Alive And Well In Society Maguire's text is lengthy and a little hard to process, but there are so many important lessons hidden between its pages. But when I realized that nobody had ever written about the second most evil character in our collective American subconscious, the Wicked Witch of the West, I thought I had experienced a small moment of inspiration. I considered briefly writing a novel about Hitler.
(Oct.I became interested in the nature of evil, and whether one really could be born bad. 50,000 first printing $75,000 ad/promo first serial to Word author tour. Maguire combines puckish humor and bracing pessimism in this fantastical meditation on good and evil, God and free will, which should, despite being far removed in spirit from the Baum books, captivate devotees of fantasy. Dorothy appears only near novel's end, as her house crash-lands on Elphaba's sister, the Wicked Witch of the East, in an accident that sets Elphaba on the trail of the girl from Kansas-as well as the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Lion-and her fabulous new shoes. Much of the narrative concerns Elphaba's troubled youth (she is raised by a giddy alcoholic mother and a hermitlike minister father who transmits to her his habits of loathing and self-hatred) and with her student years.
The Wizard of Oz, emperor of this dystopian dictatorship, promotes Industrial Modern architecture and restricts animals' right to freedom of travel his holy book is an ancient manuscript of magic that was clairvoyantly located by Madam Blavatsky 40 years earlier. Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a springboard to create a tense realm inhabited by humans, talking animals (a rhino librarian, a goat physician), Munchkinlanders, dwarves and various tribes. Maguire's strange and imaginative postmodernist fable uses L. Born with green skin and huge teeth, like a dragon, the free-spirited Elphaba grows up to be an anti-totalitarian agitator, an animal-rights activist, a nun, then a nurse who tends the dying-and, ultimately, the headstrong Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz.
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