Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Toto, Dorothy’s dog, has been speculated to resemble average Americans. In the beginning of the movie, Dorothy’s house gets enveloped in a cyclone before being taken to “Munchkin Land” and crushing the Wicked Witch of the East. The cyclone has been compared to the free silver movement, in which farmers wanted silver to remain in the monetary system in order to be able to pay off their debts, resulting in a “political storm” of sorts. One of the major…

The live concert I chose to examine was Wicked. My family and I went and saw it on October 15th at Century II at the 2:00 p.m. showing. Inside the venue, there’s around over 30 rows of red seats on the main floor, along with a balcony with perhaps a handful of rows (I didn’t get a chance to see how many). The walls are a beige color and narrow from the back to the front in a “V” formation to draw focus onto the stage. The stage had an industrial look on each side with a large map of the land of…

Frank L. Baum's novel The Wizard of Oz teaches Dorothy Gale, the main protagonist, a good lesson on the importance of home. Dorothy lives on a gray farm in Kansas with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, along with her dog Toto. After being taken away from her home, Dorothy learns that there are many places you will go but nothing can compare to the safety of your own home. Dorothy meets friends along the way in her journey through the magical land called Oz. Dorothy's journeys bring about new…

To begin off, the mis-en-scene has a considerable measure to say about the film. At the point when the motion picture first starts, Dorothy is on her Kansas ranch, (her home). The scene is in grey tones, as strain emerges and negative demeanor takeover the homestead when Dorothy's canine, Toto, is taken from her. Dorothy wishes her and Toto can go somewhere together where noone will discover them. A tornado blasts through the Kansas ranch, flying houses through the air and bicyclists in a…

The Story of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz We start in the midst of Kansas in the United States of America, on a warm cloudy day. Where there was a girl named Dorothy, at which she walked home from high school every day with a couple of other girls in her class. And in her community this was not uncommon, there was a lot of the kids that were all so walking home from her school. Usually, she walks with her friends, but she felted that she wanted to walk alone. She started to walking and she was…

ever wondered what life would be like over the rainbow? Way up high in the lands of Oz? Have you ever wanted to know the real Wicked Witch of the West? Well then, you're in for a treat. Gregory Maguire is an American novelist born in Albany, New York in 1954. He received his PhD in English and American Literature at Tuft University. He is the author of many parallel novels and stories for both children and adults. The most famous of Maguire's novels is, without a doubt, Wicked. Like…

kill the witch, she is able to manipulate the creatures of Oz multiple times to attempt to harm them. This mirrors how Iago is able to manipulate the characters within Othello. When the Wicked Witch first sees them coming, she sends forty wolves to kill them. When that fails, she sends forty crows to peck their eyes out. When the Scarecrow breaks all of their necks, she summons black bees to sting them to death. When the group hides underneath the Scarecrow’s extra straw, the Wicked Witch uses…

broken, from everyone treating her like an animal. Elphaba can only see herself in the mirror, well to know who she is (at least in one way). Elphaba Thropp is green, it's always the very first thing people notice about her. Elphaba spends her entire life dealing with other people's reaction to her skin color, she keeps trying to make herself disappear or "become and un" as she puts it (188 Mugure). The problem with making yourself disappear is that it tends to limit the things you can actually…

Research Essay Portfolio Task 5 Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story”-1957 is a landmark composition in the development of the American musical and it took many years for the idea to be developed into a musical. They had the idea of writing a deep meaning musical which would show people what real life was all about. The original idea was for a Jewish girl and a Catholic boy to fall in love. This theme however changed when the Puerto Ricans moved into New York and the story line was altered to…

Wicked, by Gregory Maguire, explores the life of the infamous “Wicked Witch of the West,” formerly known as Elphaba. Elphaba is born green. On top of that, she is almost completely/entirely unloved by her parents. Elphaba must navigate through life in Oz, facing the challenges of her appearance, an unjust government, racial injustices, life in society, and a world that seems like it’s out to get her. Slowly and steadily, Elphaba begins to tumble down farther and farther away from her reasonable…