Wicked

friends go to see the wizard each for their own purposes, but all had intentions of stopping the Wicked Witch of the West. There are many entertaining scenes in this play. Two of them are the flying monkey scene and when she first arrives in Oz. When Dorothy first lands in Oz, she is very confused with where she is. She soon meets the people of the land, the munchkins, and they good witch, Glinda. The Wicked Witch of the West visits them because of the death of her sister. With that, the…

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury is a story about two boys who live in Greentown, Illinois. The two boys, Jim and Will grow up quickly in a few days when a carnival comes to town and they must try to help the lonely people of the town who long for something. The carnival feasts upon the town's people who long for something more and turns them into freaks that become part of the carnival. Disney also turned Bradbury's book into a movie that was released in 1983 and had Bradbury…

“villains” are becoming more sympathetic characters that win over our hearts, making the readers think that they were never evil to start with. For example, Winnie Holzman’s book Wicked is from the perspective of the “Wicked Witch of the West” about how she was never evil, it was just how “Good Witch” betrayed the “Wicked Witch of the West” as a way to fame. I believe that Arthur Miller, author of The Crucible, was ahead of his time for this literary movement. Abigail Williams is the center…

For my book talk, I read Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige, which falls under juvenile fantasy. The story begins in Mission, Kansas, and is later moved to the world of Oz by a tornado. This transportation is much like the one that Dorothy goes through in the famous movie, The Wizard of Oz. Oz, however, is not as it used to be. The author wrote, “My head was swimming. If this was a fantasy, it was a strange one: this wasn’t the Oz that I had read about or seen in the movie. It was as if someone…

“Americanized fairy-tale” (160) Dorothy is never threatened like in traditional fairy-tales. She never has to feel the “awful consequences of being deserted or left alone” because she always has something to protect her. Even when she is face to face with the wicked witch, she is safe because “no one will dare injure a person who has been kissed by the Witch of the North” (Baum 13). Leach contends that Dorothy’s protection of “benign ambience of Oz” (Leach 171) reflects Baum’s Mind cure beliefs…

symbolism behind the characters of the story. Every character in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz has a political symbolic meaning. “In this reading – snappily entitled a ‘parable on Populism’ – the Yellow Brick Road represents the gold standard, and the Wicked Witch of the…

Home and a Humbug: Power via Subversion & Desire in the Fantasy Novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Desire is a common feeling for many readers, such as the desire for one’s favourite character to triumph, but how common is desire for characters in novels and how important is it for characters? Characters in every genre experience feelings of desire but these feelings are extremely prevalent in fantasy, alongside desire’s counterpart subversion. Rosemary Jackson in “Fantasy: The Literature of…

Arielle Macpherson Dr. Jessica Murphy English 603-HSE-VA 17 11 April, 2016 A moral compass Morals teach us right from wrong as well as give us hope. They are found in all forms of entertainment: from articles, to magazines, to movies, to television shows and books. The novel Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, although originally meant as a training manual for horses, has a main message that comes directly from the main character’s attitude throughout the book. Even though, the children’s book The…

that expressed more of a main idea was Glinda, the Good Witch of the North represents the Northern workers and the midwestern farmers who strongly oppose the very dominating and potent bosses who created many problems with monopolies. Moreover, The wicked monkeys portrayed the Plains Indians. During the 1890s, the Plains Indians were in a constant struggle to find a home because the U.S. government could not find a place to put them.The prohibitionists represented those who favored and followed…

Attending my first concert, Idina Menzel was my first live performance to ever attend and experience the music live. Menzel performs a selection of songs from her Broadway career, along with original songs from her various solo albums, and her Pop and Rock covers. The group that performed for Menzel was a local Los Angeles band and they played very well for the choices of songs she sang. The performers that played for Menzel was very impressive and seemed they had no problem playing and…