Elphaba, the witch is in my opinion the greatest woman of all women. Why? because she's smart, sensitive, mean and fair. She's not one of those pretty girls, -that do the tricks trough the charm. I like that. I never paid much attention to the other characters in Wizard Of Oz. Elphaba have always been the precious emerald in my heart, that I've treasured and loved, ever since I were little.Who the hell likes a girl like Dorothy? Whenever I've met a girl like her in reality, I've always wanted to tear down the walls or hide myself in a closet. Isn't she just to sweet to be real? and those shoes? I wouldn't even want to have them for display in my little glass closet. Besides it's unfair that Dorothy manage to travel so long without getting her party shoes dirty. It's not like that in reality, the longest walks or the most important tasks a person has to do in life, makes you either very tired or hurt. I assume Dorothy is a cold blooded SS nazi that only cries when it's politically correct. She's the cake you love, eat too much of and then feel like puking of. I have had a lot of these kinds of cakes in my life-time, I have gormandised on them, sold my soul for their sweet love and then hated them with an evil passion. Today I feel like brutally whipping myself like some insane Catholic priest, punish myself for all the years of sucking up to the popular girls, only to be rejected. Today I dont want a Dorothy girlfriend. Those sweet cakes can be a substitute for more important things. I want to read gruesome poems about them over the holiday family dinners. You know, Dorothy is just like Heidi, the girl from the valleys. My question is; why do they have to be so inhumanly nice, all the time? It makes people like myself feel evil and nasty about the tiny temperamental ideas. If you ask me; I'll eat a Dorothy or Heidi every day of the week! (if I had the chance).
So what's wrong with Elphaba? She lost in the ridiculous competition we call good and evil, the most unfair competition of all. She never had her chance to explain herself. She was never even regarded as a human among all the aliens. Behind the childish jeliousy, she was braver and more honest than most. Her weak spot was a part of the fact that every society need some evil to make the popular things look glittery good. Not all the things we call good would be good, if it were'nt for all the things we call evil. You may wonder where all the bad things went when Elphaba died. Would the flowers grow where no flowers grew? Would the people only do evil that the others could understand and relate to? Look at the movie called Merlin (I dont like this movie) and the world of Narnia (I like these books) by CS. Lewis and ask yourself the same questions. Evil is a great thing for humans, we float on it, we play on it and we lie the most about it. Nietzsche claimed that you must become what you want to understand. I dont think it always has to be like that. There is something called imagination and insight. There are things you have felt, but never experienced and then there are things you have experienced, but never understood. The world consists of too many people and thus to many actions to be responsible for. Life is just too short to do the Nietzsche thing. Sometimes we must understand the society to understand an individual and sometimes the negative sides in a person is the society. It is, because not all societies are the same and not all people deal with things equally.
Underneath the emerald skin, I'm sure Elphaba had a quite human fear of hell. I'm sure her evil ways went deeper than the rules the good give evil. I'm quite convinced that Elphaba had her kind strokes and I'm sure they went deeper than the rules of kindness too. Like Bram Stokers Dracula; I'm sure she knew she was going to lose. Who wants to win in a world of battles anyway? It never ends and sooner or later it's going to come knocking on your door again; something to envy, something that will make you better or worse, something you cannot avoid. In a world of constant competion it's very often better to lose.I'm sure Elpheba didn't want to be evil, I'm sure she would let it go if she was given the chance... or maybe not... I'm sure though, that Elpheba had her human sadness, in a world of pretty blond girls and human intolerance. The best thing about Elpheba is probably that I'm more correct about her, than the evil witch character is real.
The land of Oz is not a place I would want to live, but I wish I knew the human version of Elpheba. I would want to know about the things the stories of good and evil never talks about. The Narcissism behind goodness and the gentleness behind evil... Now wouldn't you want a broom from Japan? No?
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