Wicked

1. From personal observation and experience signs usually do not convince the wicked to change because the wicked are prideful and have hard hearts. My definition of a hard heart is someone who refuses to follow and to listen to the counsel and teachings of the Lord. Someone with a hard heart rationalizes their wicked behavior and views signs as coincidences instead of signs from God to change their behavior. For example, when I was younger one of my good friends behavior (who was a member at…

In the Bible, there came a wicked man, with long and thick hair praised by all Israel, called Absalom, whose father was David, the king of Israel. Absalom wanted to the king of Israel, expecting to obtain the rights by illicit means: He betrayed his father and called on other unfaithful men to be on war with his father’ army. When his trick was revealed by a man, he deceived that he would not disobey the king any longer. However, with time going by, his wicked minds appeared again. They fought…

Of the Wicked Witch, written by Craig Sodaro and directed by Jane Purdy, focuses on the trial of the recognizable character of the Wicked Witch. The main twist of this play is that it breaks the fourth wall, a conceptual wall that serves as a barrier between a play and its audience, by allowing the audience to determine the outcome of the trial. The major theme of the play is that all people are innocent until proven guilty. This theme is expressed through a court case that enables the Wicked…

The Wicked Effects of Prejudice: Prejudice and Discrimination Glinda. Delightful. Angelic. The Wicked Witch of the West. Wretched. Demonic. Although it has been a few years since I last viewed the Wizard of Oz I still recall these perceptions of the characters from the movie. Even now, when I picked up the book Wicked, taking place in Oz, however under different pretenses, these perceptions that I had formed from viewing the Wizard of Oz all those years ago left a lasting impression. After…

Glinda the Good Witch is the one who told Dorothy to keep the shoes from the Wicked Witch of the West. She is also the one who starts the celebration of the witches death. She explains to Dorothy that only pretty witches can be good, this is in fact the only indication that the wicked witch of the west is bad because of her green skin and mole. It is never expressed what the wicked witch actually does to earn her wicked title. After the wizard is proven not to be a wizard at all it is Glinda the…

Wicked I went to Wicked. It was just me and my mom. We did not go to New York but we did go to the Aronoff theater. It was amazing, we had a blast!We went up one floor and got my picture in front of a poster of the two witches: Elphaba and Galinda. After that, we went to our seats in the balcony, in the second row. Once the show started it was amazing until Elphaba went missing she was in the middle of going to her new school with her sister, and then, the whole stage and the whole theater went…

In the article, “Wicked Thoughts”, by Jena Pincott, published in Psychology Today, Pincott describes how common and normal it is to have these disturbing, abnormal, and “wicked” thoughts. These thoughts were categorized into 5 divisions; morbid, creepy thoughts, sexually perverse thoughts, prejudiced thoughts, schadenfreude, and violent, murderous thoughts. An opening example of a common wicked thought was “we value our lives and those of others but still have the fleeting impulse to drive the…

The Wizard of Oz written by Frank Baum uses a lot of color description to allow the reader to picture the location that Dorothy is in. It starts with the gray land, gray sky, gray houses that are all around in Kansas were the story starts. It allows a vision of a storm coming, stormy weather. Dorothy's home is about to be hit by severe storms. When Dorothy wakes up after the cyclone, the skies are bright, patches of green and green banks. She meets men and women in blue and white…

filmed in daylight, except for the short time when Dorothy and her entourage travel to the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West. There, all the filmed events occur at night, in darkness. It is obvious to the audience watching the movie that the mood has drastically changed. In fact, The Wizard of Oz's mise-en-scene corresponds with the different lighting. While in the company of the Wicked Witch, Dorothy encounters a strong contrast between the costumes, props, and scenery. The characters…

Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely. New York: HarperTeen, 2007. Reviewed by: Gao Xiong If you can see things that the human eye can't see, what would you do? It's like seeing a whole new world that you didn't know that it existed. The book Wicked Lovely was created by Marr, Melissa which had the genre of romance, fantasy, and young adult. Aislinn see thing that human eye can't see which causes her to be different from other humans. She could see fey, fey disguise as human and they don't know that she…