Elphaba Essays

West. The book introduces Elphaba, the Wicked Witch from the original tale and shows her life before the classic story, which paints her in a different and far more sympathetic light. Elphaba has an unfortunate childhood, born with unusual physical features, her unique appearance is used by her father to help encourage conversion to his religion. Additionally her mother was very distant, if not neglectful, and both parents doted on her sister instead. In the story Elphaba pushes people away, transforms

differ greatly and send a much different message to the viewer. The Wizard of Oz gives off more of a “lets go explore” and friendship kind of feeling whereas Wicked makes you think about society and how we treat others. The biggest factor in that is Elphaba, and how she is treated differently because her skin color is green. The musical also gives the audience more to think about with its different viewpoint of “The Wicked Witch” and how she isn’t so wicked which can be taken into the context of our

characters are Elphaba (the wicked witch of the west) and Nessarose (the witch of the east) who are sisters. “Oh, this is my younger sister, Nessarose.” (pg.5) • Character/Role: Glinda, (witch of the North) • Elphaba born green. “Like a froggy ferny cabbage, the baby is unnaturally green!!!” (pg.4) • Relationships: Glinda was Elphaba’s friend and went to school with her. “Glinda: Well, it depends on what you mean by "friend". That is, our paths did cross... at school”(pg.4) • Place: Elphaba had to go

The characters Elphaba and Galinda from the musical called, “Wicked” are a foil pair. Foil pairs are characters who contrasts and clashes with each other. Arguably, Elphaba and Galinda display as foil pairs through their status in their school in the song called, “What is This Feeling”. For example, Elphaba is portrayed to be an outcast from all the other students and Galinda as the favored student of the school; Accordingly, “We’re all on your side!” for Galinda and “She’s a terror! She’s a Tartar

The Wizard of Oz makes the wicked witch of the west out to be a horrible woman destroys villages and is the worst nightmare of all the townspeople. Anyone who meets her instantly fears her without even talking to her or trying to get to know her. Elphaba, the wicked witch of the west is seen as an evil person in the Wizard of Oz; however, in Wicked you are shown that she is a caring woman, animal rights activist, and a major social outcast. This musical is not just about the wicked witch of the west

powerful witch. Elphaba and the Witch are two completely different people. Throughout Wicked, Elphaba develops through the theme-- not to judge a book by its cover-- through the representation of the color green as evil, her views on religion, and the two people who

was first performed on 10th June 2003 in New York City on Broadway. It was adapted, by Winnie Holzman and Steven Schwartz, from the 1995 book by Gregory Maguire (WICKED: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West), and follows the story of Elphaba a green-skinned girl who eventually becomes better known as the Wicked Witch of the West. The plot runs from before the start of the Wizard of Oz and then proceeds alongside it, finishing with the supposed death of the Wicked Witch. It re-tells Elphaba’s

musical I attended for this assignment. It is a beautiful show about learning and friendship, it is a story from the viewpoint of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. This musical was presented by the traveling broadway performers in Milwaukee; the musical started with Elphaba living life as a social outcast and ends up being able to fly and be who she really is. Elphaba then meets her roommate, Glinda the Good, and she is self-absorbed, gets whatever she wants. With this, becomes a friendly rival

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was mentioned that the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba) only had one eye that was as powerful as a telescope, and to have melted to a “brown, melted, shapeless mess” after Dorothy threw a bucket of water on her. There was no mention of Elphaba having green skin, or having any connection to green. This notion of Elphaba having green skin from birth was introduced in Maguire’s novel, and carried forward to the musical. This paper will

witch was her friend, and goes into the past, when she met Elphaba. This is a story about friendship and that those who are called wicked are not always wicked. Firstly I would like to talk about What Is This Feeling? This song is where Galinda and Elphaba are roomed together and talking about how they felt about each other. The other students side with Galinda in how they hate Elphaba. They also feel pity on her since they all hate Elphaba. This song

like political satire. We look at the things that they want us to look at, and we don’t see the things that they want us to ignore (Sewey). Another theme that is covered throughout the musical is discrimination. Although, it may seem as though Elphaba with her green skin would be the main person who is discriminated, this is not the case. As Stacy Wolf covers her essay, the “Other” in the story is the animals (10). The animals of Oz are born with the innate ability to learn how to speak. However

tends to bring the evil out in Elphaba because she makes her feel uncomfortable and self conscious. Therefore, Elphaba is the wicked witch of the west and very few people like her. One conflict in the book is that Elphaba thinks she is wicked so, everybody else thinks she’s wicked because she has green skin. During her childhood years she was always made fun of and when more and more people bullied her it angered her and that did not make her feel good. But it made Elphaba feel good when she was mean

impact two friends had on each other throughout their lives. It is derived from the musical, Wicked, which follows the story of the intelligent, social outcast Elphaba and the cute, popular Glinda. The two become best friends throughout many exploits and perform this song together while parting forever. During this emotional goodbye, Elphaba sings to Glinda, “And now whatever way our

Witch of the East. Nessa and her sister Elphaba have a very sisterly relationship.The way Nessa is taken care of by her sister,gets embarrassed by her family and is daddy’s angel proves Nessa from “Wicked” by Stephen Schwartz and myself are similar and different. Sometimes family can be embarrassing. This can be seen when Nessa is embarrassed by her sister Elphaba. “Nessarose’s wheelchair is torn from Morribles hands and begins to wheel itself back to Elphaba. Morrible: How did you do that? Galinda:

Just as Elphaba was seen as an evil monster, Frankenstein’s monster, from here on referred to as the monster, was viewed the same. Victor Frankenstein decided to attempt to play god and create life. One night Victor “With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony

Wicked overlap in many ways, with characters who share many characteristics and have similar roles. You can infer from both musicals that Elphaba, The Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda the Good Witch are the same characters between the two musicals. Although The Wizard of Oz portrays the Wicked Witch of the West to be the bad guy where as in Wicked, Elphaba is

The first time this is sung, Elphaba longs to be together with Fiyero, but he only has eyes for Glinda. However, during the reprise, Fiyero had run away from Glinda in order to be with Elphaba. Elphaba sang ‘I’m Not That Girl’ the first time, and the reprise was sung by Glinda.This shows how Elphaba’s former feelings of longing and helplessness were now felt by Glinda

a number on me. I remember sitting there at the end of act 1 where Elphaba is up in the air belting about how no one is going to stand in her way of chasing her dreams just awestruck during the intermission. I even took my phone out and made a note about how there was truly a difference watching Defying Gravity on a screen and live. Back then of course, as a new 15 year old who had yet to go through major life decisions, Elphaba was everything I wanted to be. She was unafraid of chasing her dreams

another young woman named Elphaba, born with emerged-green skin-smart, fiery, misunderstood, and possessing extraordinary talent. When she meets a woman named Glinda, a bubbly blond, their initial rivalry

“At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification”(Shelley 80). The Creation of Frankenstein woke up in a world of hate. Since he looked different, the Monster never fit in with normal people. He would become isolated and feared because of his looks. Because the Monster was a hideous creation from