Wicked describes how Elphaba is born with green skin after her mother had an encounter with a travelling businessman. Her mother gives birth to an armless child, Nessarose, and then later dies giving birth to Elphaba's third sibling, her brother, Shell.
When Elphaba is older, she goes to school at Shiz, and is roomed with the pretty, popular Galinda. At first, Galinda is not happy about this. Things change, however, when Professor Dillamond, their Talking Animal teacher, is found dead, soon after Animal hate speech started being promoted by faculty members, prompting Galinda to change her name to Glinda in honour of him.
Elphaba and Glinda become close compatriots and the former rescues a Lion cub brought in by his replacement, and gains a passion for fighting for Animal rights. Elphaba goes to the Emerald City to speak to the wizard of this, and her life changes forever. Events push the two friends along their paths towards becoming the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West. The book inspired a Lighter and Softer musical adaptation in , which became one of Broadway's biggest hits.
The musical version will receive a film adaptation in from Universal. Irji is the kid we know the least about, though it's implied he's interested in religion and is probably gay 4.
Irji's death is particularly gruesome and reveals the depths of the Wizard's cruelty. Nor, the only daughter, is the most heavily featured, which makes sense in a book that places a huge emphasis on female characters. Nor is a younger version of Elphaba in some ways, but she's also another version of Dorothy. Or, more accurately, Dorothy is another version of Nor. Nor is interested in magic and is also experiencing a sexual awakening in the novel. Fittingly, Nor herself enjoys stories about Witches more on that shortly and grows up in the land where Kumbric Witch legends are most prevalent.
Nor's fate is one of the cruelest in the book; it seems that she's gone insane by the time Elphaba finds her but fails to rescue her. Just so we don't end on a sad note here, we'd like to look at a recurring scene between Sarima and Nor, who emphasize the book's interest in mothers and daughters.
Two sets of mothers and daughters parallel each another: Melena and Elphaba see Melena's "Character Analysis" for more on this and Sarima and Nor in terms of their ultimate fates. Prowd's, masquerading as her mother. Illianora soon becomes stressed from the situation, especially with Candle's overtures to have Rain returned to them or Liir found.
She dies after falling off a cliff, though whether the death was accidental or an suicide is left unknown to the reader. Wicked Wiki Explore. Wicked musical. The Wicked Years. Community Rules. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? History Talk 0. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types.
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