Uprisings Part 4&5

To save space on the homepage of this blog, sections four and five will be together.

Elphaba is home. She spent many days and nights travelling by broom to see her sister and her father. She flew at night and slept during the day. This was to avoid being seen by people. When she arrived, her father was surprised to see her, and Elphaba was a little bit shocked as to how happy she was to see him.

Frex informed Elphaba about her sister and how she overthrew the Emperor to make Munchkinland an independent state. Apparently Nessa had allowed her emotions to get the best of her and she was beginning to do very hurtful things that will get her and other people in trouble. Elphaba feels as though she is not responsible for what her sister does or has done. Frex is a little upset over this. But ultimately he feels that the shoes are what is causing the problem. He thinks that she has gained the confidence to be independent and now she is able to do things by herself, whereas before, she needed the assistance form someone else.

Elphaba goes off to find Nessa. This is a pointless part of the chapter because all they do is bicker at each other. Nessa reveals that she is still upset that Elphaba left her at Shiz.

The next section of this chapter just elaborates on what the previous chapter had stated. The same problems are continuing, and Nessa definitely has control over her people. During the midst of this section, an old women comes to speak with Nessa bout a servant of hers that wants to quit to get married. As a result of this, Nessa offers her a trade. The lady’s Animals; a sheep and a cow for a spell to keep the two apart. Elphaba is in disbelief when her sister is able to perform this spell. She had no idea that her sister was also a witch. (Does she have a magic broom too?)

Elphaba then goes to check on the Animals, and they truly give her a sense of what is going on with her sister as a ruler. The Animals are not getting any of their rights. This brings Elphaba back to Doctor Dillamond. He was and Animal rights activist. He wanted to have his rights. At the end of the chapter, the Animals joke about how they will be killed and served to some of the powerful people in the land.

Maguire, Gregory. Wicked . New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. 406. Print. <http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=wicked>.