Wicked, is the untold story about the Witches of Oz. The music and lyrics are written by Stephen Schwartz, and the book is written by Winnie Holzman. Wicked is based on the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. This play is an alternative story, which is told from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz.
The play begins with Glinda (the good witch) coming into the town and they are discussing how they heard a rumor that Glinda used to be an acquaintance of Elphaba. The story then flashes back to when Glinda and Elphaba were in college.
The two attended Shiz University, Glinda was a rich, spoiled, and popular. Elphaba was only attending Shiz University to look after her sister Nessa-Rose whom was the spoiled
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Elphaba is constantly ridiculed and eventually is given the label, wicked witch of the west. Elphaba deep down though just wants to fit in and is a sweet person. She is willing to help anyone who is in need of care and eventually gets these helpless people’s back turned to her; while she goes and meets the Wizard of Oz, which does not go the way that Elphaba had planned. Her visit with the Wizard of Oz did not help her confidence when the town starts to ridicule her for every decision she makes. Glinda deeply loves Fiyero Tigelaar, a prince; but Fiyero’s future has different plans for the two of them. Fiyero likes Glinda because of her beauty and looks, but started to grow feelings for Elphaba for being this nice and gentle person, which not what people have labeled her to be. Fiyero wants to help Elphaba and ends up getting in trouble. After Fiyero and Elphaba find that they have feelings for one another, they try to hide these feelings from other people. After being wanted for overshowing the wizard, Elphaba returns home to find her sister the mayor of the east, and her father dead. Her sister lies to her and tells her that he died from all of the shame she brought to him. Elphaba tries to help her sister become the kind person she use to and help free the munchkins but in return gets all the fault blamed on her. When he takes a trip to emerald city he is murdered by the
In this play, innocent people were hung because some of the girls in town cried witch. To start from the beginning, Abby, Tituba, and the girls were out in the forest one night, dancing, and were caught by Reverend Paris. Abby blamed Tituba for calling the Devil. Tituba then said it was not her, for there are many witches in the community. Tituba named some of the town’s women as witches.
Living in Maryland, the narrator and her little brother Joey lived a very simple life. There mother had job that required many hours, and her father was unemployed and still in the process of trying to find a job. They lived in a very run down house in a very small poor community. One summer day, the narrator , Joey, and a group of kids from the community were bored and wanted to do something different. So,the narrator and the kids went down to one of the elders home, Miss Lottie. Miss Lottie was the old woman that everyone made stories about and for the kids they knew her as the witch. In the summer time Miss Lottie would always be in her front yard planting marigolds, which were an easy target to destroy. The kids all took part in throwing rock at Miss Lottie's marigolds, and the narrator was the coordinator. After they sprinted back to the oak tree, the narrator started to feel guilt for what she
In the Town of Salem Massachusetts, 1692, a group of adolescents are caught dancing in the forest. Among the adolescents in The Crucible, Abigail Williams and Mary Warren. The girls are horrified that they have been caught dancing, a sinful act, therefore they devise a story to evade punishment: they claim to have been bewitched. The first person who they accuse of witchcraft is a the black maid, Tituba. This results in her jail sentence as well as fearful suspicion throughout the town. Arthur Miller demonstrates the impact of lying as the girls recognise and manipulate their power in the town. Lead by Abigail, they go further, claiming countless others guilty and dooming them to exile. Miller demonstrates that there power is so great that even when Mary attempts to stand against her friends, she is quickly overwhelmed and once again plays along with their trickery. As the girls’ conspiracy continues, controversy arise over their truthfulness; people choose sides often lying themselves to support their side, further altering the lives of all involved.
The exposition of the play was the baker and his wife learned that they were cursed to be without child by the witch next door. They were cursed because the baker’s dad stole vegetables from the witch’s garden. The witch took his sister and locked her away in a tower. They had to receive a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as snow, hair as yellow as corn and a slipper as pure as gold. Little red had the cape, Rapunzel with the hair, Cinderella had the slipper, and Jack had the cow. In Act I the point of attack was when everyone was trading and trying to find what they “wanted” things stated getting hectic and everyone was running out of time. In Act II the point of attack happens when the giant sets foot on our level which leads to the inciting incident creating an even larger complication for the characters and that’s when they all discover what they had wasn’t at all what they wanted. The climax was after a few characters had died and the last few characters were all together with no hope and the witch sacrifices herself to defeat the giant. Everyone goes their own way and finds their true happiness.
Although the movie doesn’t follow the cycle totally, it fails in comparison to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which by far is the most unique of the three stories plot wise. While throughout the story you will see some aspects of the cycle, this is the life story of Elphaba, from her birth to her death. Because at the beginning of the story she is not alive and at the end of the story she dies, there is no status quo, or ordinary world at the beginning of the story to return to at the end. After the beginning of the story all of Oz is the special world that Elphaba has to explore, and even when Elphaba does return to her birthplace in Munchkinland near the end of the novel it is in no way the way she left it. A woman who lives there has a maid who is falling in love with a woodcutter, and the maid might quit her job to be with him. She comes to Elphaba's sister Nessarose, who is now the highest ranking official in Munchkinland, and asks for help, “‘I can give you two Sheep and a Cow,’ said the woman… ‘I might bewitch his axe and let it slip,’ said Nessarose thoughtfully, ‘just enough perhaps to cut off his arm.’” (Maguire 314) The woman asks her to hurt the woodcutter so severely that the maid will not be attracted to him anymore and she will continue working. Of course a cruel leader like Nessarose would never help a citizen out of
The play begins with a grand celebration, in which the characters toast to the New Year. Agnes admits that she feels relatively safe living at Berlin at this time, and the group decides to make up a story together. They story is of a cold night and a watchman who tries to beat nature by fighting back and arming himself with a warm coat and scarf. At first he succeeds, but later finds that even his coat and scarf are
They play started out with the girls in the woods with Tituba and they weren't really doing any harm until Abigail got naked and wiped blood on her face. Then and only then did they suspect Witchcraft. Abigail of course acted like what they were doing was nothing “We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there’s the whole of it” (Act I) “ But we never conjured spirits.” (Act I) which caused problems. Her saying those things made them blame everything on tituba and beat her and yell at her. Then when Tituba confessed and they were treating her well Abigail thought if she confessed she would get some glory out of it. So she yelled out a bunch of names of people “she saw with the devil” which only made
The play is based on the real life witch hunts that occurred in the late
Mary Warren, their house servant, enters. She tells of a death sentence for one of the accused witches. She gives Elizabeth a is a small doll made to represent a person.
The play begins at Reverend Parris' home, whose daughter Betty is ill. Parris is living with his daughter and his seventeen-year old niece Abigail. Parris believes that is daughters illness is from supernatural causes, so he sends for Reverend Hale. Betty first start to look ill after her father discovered her dancing in the woods with Abigail and his Negro slave, Tituba along with several other local girls. There are rumors going around that Betty's sickness is due to witchcraft. Parris doesn't want to admit to seeing his daughter and niece dancing in the woods, but Abigail says that she will admit to dancing and accept the punishment.
In Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West happen before the novel by L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In Baum’s novel of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, portrays the role of the Wicked Witch of the West being wicked. We have no background or personal preference to understand her life of the Wicked Witch of the West (as known as Elphaba). But in Maguire’s novel, Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, shows how Elphaba traits of a monster are similar to a typical monster that portrays in people's eye. Elphaba is an ideal model of what we see in a monster would be like: abnormal, scary looking, and blunt behavior. She is a target of gossip to those who do not even know her. Typically in monster tale, usually, monsters characterize as: wicked, unstoppable, destructive, and evil. Surprisingly since birth to young adulthood, Elphaba did not portray a role of any wickedness of a monster expected to be, but a caring person and cares about what she thinks is righteous.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire, takes place in the Land of Oz. It actually takes place forty years before The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum, and it tells the story of how Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, became so wicked (Fiction Book Review). This book was written in 1995. Maguire wrote this book in the early 1900’s when he was living in London. At this time, the Gulf War was just starting. Maguire was intrigued by the headline in the British Newspaper, the Times of London, that said, “Sadaam Hussein: The New Hitler?” Months later, there was an incident where several young schoolboys kidnapped and killed a toddler. While the British press was paying attention to the crime,
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