Gregory Maguire's Wicked

Anger and evil are main emotion that are portrayed in the book Wicked. These emotions are clear in Gregory Maguire's famous novel, Wicked, which was published in 1995 and takes place in the Land of Oz. This novel is one of Maguire’s bestselling books and in 2003 they decided to turn it into a musical and to this day it still gets performed to this day. Now Wicked is based on Oz therefor in the book there are many things that tie together the two books for example, the characters such as Dorothy, the tin man and others.Wicked is supposed to be a better version of The Wizard of Oz, the book was also written many years before Wicked even though when looking at a timeline it shows Wicked should be first, then Oz. The book revolves around these

Glinda is the good witch and 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 to others or would hurt them. Even her parents were not accepting of her because of the color of her skin. During the course of the book there are many obstacles that Elphaba has to go through, but by then end of the book it just isn’t meant to be and she gets killed. In Wicked, author Gregory Maguire uses Elphaba and Glinda’s character to show the anger in their relationship and how that is caused, conflicts are created when people do not get along in

I don’t necessarily agree with that because Elphaba did so much damage in the story, but she did that because of Glinda, so that's when I agree with Kakutani that she was the “bad one”. The title of Michiko Kakutani’s article presents a good idea of what his article will be about. Now when analyzing the title “Let’s get This straight: Glinda was the bad one?” this title is accurate in my opinion because I feel that Glinda brought out the evil in the other characters especially Elphaba she was always the one to push Elphaba’s buttons. Glinda was a selfish person in general and she tried to make friends with Elphie but it didn’t go the way that either of them wanted it actually hurt Elphie more in the long run. In the article he starts right away presenting the theme “People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us.” In my eyes the theme that he has picked out means that if you think that you evil than you probably aren’t as bad as you think and I think that that’s a good representation of Elphaba. Kakutani says "It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us," a character says, "that you have to be wary of." I could agree with this because Glinda was always trying to prove that she’s better than others or that she is good. But in reality she wasn’t fooling everyone