Two of the train's passengers, Doctor Dillamond and Galinda, are bound for Shiz University. On a steam train enroute to Shiz, a city in southwestern Gillikin. Nessarose eventually embraces Frex's zealotry and, thus, she is her father's favorite, to Elphaba's lasting angst. Nessarose is born as pink as Elphaba is green, but more importantly, she is disabled (she has no arms), she requires constant supervision and care. Melena orders Nanny to ensure her second child will not be born green like her firstborn, but it has unforeseen consequences. It is unknown whether the father is Frex or Turtle Heart. When Frex returns, he befriends Turtle Heart (seemingly ignorant of the relationship between the Quadling and his wife), out of both unionist charity (Quadlings, after all, "ranked about as low on the social ladder as it was possible to get and still be human"), religious zeal (Quadlings have no concept of religion, so Frex sees Turtle Heart as a potential convert) and an attraction to Turtle Heart on his own accordĪt the end of the first part, Melena is pregnant with Elphaba's younger sister Nessarose Thropp or "Nessa" for short. With Frex absent for extended periods, preaching to the Munchkinlanders, Turtle Heart and Melena begin a secret affair. Melena offers him food and drink, and Turtle Heart blows a beautiful glass reflecting ball for Elphaba. To dull the pain of raising a difficult child and loneliness while Frex is away, Melena chews pinlobble leaves and drinks heavily.Ībout a year and a half later, a traveling Quadling glassblower named Turtle Heart visits the home of Melena and Frex. With Nanny there to help, Frex decides to leave home to travel spreading the word of the Unnamed God. Melena then calls on her childhood nanny for help. Frex believes the baby is punishment from the Unnamed god for failing to protect his parishioners while Melena has trouble bonding with and caring for He seduces her and nine months later she gives birth to a child, Elphaba Thropp, inside a device called The Clock of the Time Dragon (a prophetic enchanted tik-tok device), as her husband is attacked by a lynch mob to another locationĮlphaba is born with green skin, sharp teeth, is seemingly savage, biting at anyone and anything forcing her parents to fashion a muzzle, so she cannot hurt herself or others and is terrified of water, even as a newborn. Though it does not become clear until much later, Melena is at some point approached by a mysterious stranger, who gives her a potion called "Miracle Elixir" from a green bottle. Because Melena married lower than her family's social standing she is unhappy in her marriage and is known to have many other men in her life. Frex is the son of a seventh son, and the seventh pastor in his family. There is also a prologue where Elphaba is spying on Dorothy and her friends, hearing them gossip about her.Įlphaba is born to Melena Thropp, the granddaughter of the Eminent Thropp of Munchkinland, and Frexspar Thropp, an itinerant unionist minister. The story is divided into five different sections based on the plot location. Gregory Maguire fashioned the name of Elphaba, from the initials of Lyman Frank Baum, L-F-B. The story centers on Elphaba Thropp, the misunderstood green-skinned girl who grows up to become the notorious Wicked Witch of the West. The novel is a political, social, and ethical commentary on the nature of good and evil, and takes place in The Land of Oz, in the years leading to Dorothy's arrival. The social strife described in The Wicked Years indicates that the 1900 book and the 1939 film are set in similar and internally consistent but distinct versions of Oz. The novel presents events, characters and situations from Baum's book and i 1939 film in new ways, making numerous alterations. In 2003, it became the basis for the Broadway musical, Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz. It is the first of The Wicked Years series, followed by Son of a Witch (published in 2005), A Lion Among Men (published in 2008), and Out of Oz (published in 2011). Unlike the 1939 film and Baum's book, this novel is not directed at children it contains adult language and content, including violent imagery and sexual situations. Frank Baum's 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the 1939 MGM film, The Wizard of Oz. It is a revisionist look of the Land of Oz and it's characters from L. Wicked: The Life Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is the first novel in Gregory Maguire's The Wicked Years and illustrated by Douglas Smith.
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