Wicked Witch of the West

Pre-Reading Wicked, & The Wonderful Wizard of Oz I never really liked The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The lion, scarecrow, and tin man were all characters that kind of freaked me. I think this had to do with their costumes, the lions faces creeped me out. As of Wicked I now there is a musical, which I have not seen. Overall, I am kind of excited to read the book. While Reading Wicked So the book starts out with a prologue of the witch spying on the Lion, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Dorothy. As the story

The Good Witch of the North, the first witch that Dorothy encounters, bestows a protective kiss upon her forehead but is unable to understand how the silver shoes that Dorothy got from the dead Wicked Witch of the East and was unable to free the munchkins from the East wrath. This is a symbol of the Midwest support for the Populism, because in the north had considerable support, but this support was no match for the eastern voter, just like the Good Witch was no match against the East Witch (Taylor

I had been wanting to read Wicked for a long time. I finally found a copy at a thrift store (must be everyone is hanging onto their copies), but had a list of other books to read first. With all of those out of the way, it was finally time to get around to Wicked. It seemed really strange at first with the weird names and the clock puppet with two *ahem* "thingies". However, once you get used to the format of it, it's really easy to get into. In all my years I never would have stopped to think about

the kiss from the Witch of the North gave Dorothy the appearance of power even though these objects hardly played a role in her success in the novel. Munchkins assume that she is a sorceress because of appearance and her actions. “Because you wear silver shoes and have killed the Wicked Witch. Besides, you have white in your frock, and only witches and sorceresses wear white” (Baum 23). The significance of appearance plays a role since she is automatically associated with a witch because of her white

The book Wicked written by Gregory Maguire is much like the classic story The Wizard of Oz. Instead of seeing the story through Dorothy’s 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

always indicated to me a sense of the unreal or dreamlike. Another mise en scene that is used is the costumes. Dorothy is in a blue and white gingham dress. She wears pigtails with red ribbons in them. The quintessential wholesome innocent. The Wicked Witch on the other hand is green, which is not only a color of envy, and greed, it is also the color of illness. Any sympathy one may have towards her as someone that can be perceived to be sick quickly vanishes because she is dressed in black and the

by a twister. When she landed, she was in the Land of Oz. She later finds out that she can get home just by clicking the heels of the silver shoes together, which she got from the good witch of the north. The good witch of the north and the munchkins gave the shoes to Dorothy because her house fell on the wicked witch of the east, killing her. And when she died all her munchkins and slaves were free. Dorothy could have solved her problem differently if she could have just held Toto tightly, since after

main character, Dorothy, comes to a realization that there is no place like home. Dorothy yearns to go out to see the world when she first runs away, she wants something better than she already has. After her journey in the land Oz fighting off of a Witch who is attacking her at every chance she can, she then truly realizes how blessed and wonderful her life back in Kansas really is. A good example of this in real life are lottery winners. There’s a bunch of cases where lottery winners wished that they

started to form. Dorothy was in her room and a tornado hit her house. She ended up falling and hit her head and went into a deep sleep. She wakes up in a house, with bright shining light. The house that Dorothy lands on crushes the Wicked Witch of the East. The Good Witch tells Dorothy to go to the Emerald City which is controlled by the Wizard of Oz so that he may be able to get her home. On her way to the Emerald City, Dorothy makes 3 new friends: a

her laugh. After the tornado carries her to the land of Oz, all she wants to do is get home to Kansas. Dorothy compassionate to the Scarecrow and Tinman. Dorothy shows courage when the Lion tries to bite Toto. She doesn't want to kill the Wicked Witch of the West, even if it is the only way she can get home to Kansas again. The film originated from the beloved children's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum. Whom also came up with the title by looking at the two letters printed