Gregory Maguire’s Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West L. Frank Baum turns the novel into children in a new, multi-faceted and much darker meditation on both natures. evil and has the effect of propagation in the ideological perspectives that are emphasized. Oz Baum was trying to impose a utopia; Maguire shows that one person’s utopia is another’s dystopia. Maguire’s world of Oz at first seems perversity-turvy as the characters he assumes the reader to be or are shown to be evil have little actual behavior from their previous incarnation, yet their actions are placed in context to subvert hope.
Wicked begins shortly before the very birth of a green alien girl, who will grow up to take the title Wicked Witch of the West His parents are Frexspar, a working clergyman, and his wife Melena, a noble prostitute. The born Melena seems to be the source of much of the rebellious character, who rebels against her parents by marrying her under the station, and the string of lovers who rebel against her husband. Abandoned in the desolate confines of Munchkinland, Melena enters the equally unknown environment of childbirth with the sole help of some strange local women who call upon the drug pinobble to ease the pain. The daughter is a boy, healthy, but with green skin. Frex and Melena put a lot of effort into dealing with their daughter’s new affliction; not only green skin, but also seems to be allergic to water. A daughter, named Elphaba, in adoration of the sound L. FrankBaum is only raised by the same nurse that Melena was raised by her parents.
Elphaba’s otherness was endowed in her from birth; Her childhood is characterized by her family protecting Elphaba from socializing with other children. This otherness eventually causes her to be labeled a witch and a witch, and the beginning of the novel explodes the idea that a witch is always born a witch rather than made. Elphaba is an alien child in that she is precocious about how external forces exert themselves and imprint an identity that is not of her own choosing, but she still chooses to use it once it has become natural. Despised by her family, Elphaba is rejected for a course in which there is no choice but always play outsider. Approaching social concern, what is seen by the father as a punishment from God for offenses; His daughter’s inability to approach the water was considered a symbolic inability to baptize her from her sins. Adding insult to injury to Frex is the insult thrown his way by his daughter’s decision to embrace atheism and reject her religious beliefs.
Elphaba becomes a wicked witch not as a punishment from God, or because she is born that way, but because in the pursuit of her own identity she tries to help others who are exempt. Far from looking at her father’s religion as a way to salvation for those who have been oppressed, Elphaba comes to see the traditions they have clung to in Oz as a crime of suppression (Cashdan 234).
The opening part closes with a mysterious vision for Elphaba: a man comes in a hot air balloon; the sight of the green girl fills me with terror and horror. Next time, the reader sees Elphaba grow up and transfer to college, where she meets a self-centered young woman named Galinda. One theme that resonates in the novel is the questioning of traditional beliefs and values that associate the beauty of goodness and evil with otherness. A clear element that composes the thematic fabric is the contrast between the vain Galinda who is desired by almost every male she meets, and Elphaba who is so socially inappropriate that Galinda-who eventually changes her spelling. of her name are better known to one of the readers, when she seizes the opportunity to help an unfortunate green girl an opportunity to prove that she is more than a green skin that their father rejects in Elphaba, Frex reveals that Nessaros is his dearest. . It is the gift of the silver shoe most welcome, Elphaba, the symbol of all that is evil in that world. Father Nessarose for Elphaba’s shoes in the manner of giving sweet sweets. That is, Elphaba never receives anything beautiful from her father, because in his eyes she is not beautiful, but cursed by an unnamed God. Elphaba shoes once Dorothy’s house desperately wants a sister as a pledge of love from her father, but also because the shoes were given magical powers by Glinda which allows Nessarose to move independently. But this movement does not abuse the beauty and innocence of Nessaros. But it is Frex’s beloved daughter who gives real wickedness, the kind of fundamentalist religious tyrant all too familiar to today’s readers. Nessaros’s character evolution serves as Glinda’s book in providing Elphaba with the sympathy necessary to make her the rough character with whom the average reader wants to identify. The shoes also make Elphaba understand that he will remain a stranger forever.
The last part where Elphaba goes into self-exile in Kiamo Ko shows how the image of the wicked witch is constructed. Elphaba tries to learn the mysteries of dark magic from the Grimmerie book of secrets that is the object of the Wizard of Oz, and this part provides explanations for a lot of the iconic images of the wicked Western that most readers expect. a goat’s beak, a flying monkey, a broom handle. At this point, Elphaba lost her lover, her family, even her love. He descends to a kind of insanity, but never achieves the wickedness associated with him. His story is born from the side of mystery; Wild stories about their past and their powers grow and become fun and scary. The real object of Dorothy’s mission in the name of the Witch is not Elphaba’s broom handle, but Grimmerie. Grimmerie connects Oz with Wizard-world”>Wizard and is symbolic of Elphaba herself, who serves as an even more powerful link to her wizard father it was recently revealed in the novel.
Gregory Maguire’s Oz is a land that is no longer located in an alien fantasy, but an allegorical world. A wizard from our world. The witch’s trick is a parable about moral relativism. What appears evil or good from one perspective may be revealed as the opposite or, which is much more likely, to contain subtle shades of gray.
