Theatrical Adaptation

the wickedness of the wizard

The wizard of Oz in any incarnation whether it be in the Wonderful wizard of OZ, the Wiz or Wicked, is inherently wicked. There is one fact from every incarnation that supports this: THEY ALL SEND DOROTHY TO KILL THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST. They send a little girl (except the Wiz) to kill this supposed enemy of the people who is fairly powerful and in control of a vast vinkus army. They are all cowardly in this fashion and of course wicked.
In the wonderful wizard of Oz, he seems to be the least wicked of all the incarnations, however his sending of Dorothy against the Wicked Witch of the West lends itself to negligence. One may argue that he knew the Good witch kissed Dorothy to protect her and knew she would come to no harm. However he was a humbug wizard and though his powers of illusion are expanded in later novels when he returns to Oz, and I don't believe he would have known this. He also scared her and all her friends.
IN the Wiz he was more cowardly than the lion, however he still comes back to the same action of sending Dorothy to face the Witch. He is however more wicked in this by being such a coward and he has no excuse for his wickedness. All he wants is power because he couldn't attain it in his original world. He is like most insecure men, he needs power to reassure himself that he is worth something....
Now we come to the wickedest Wizard of them all, the Wicked Wizard. He not only is a true mastermind as opposed to the coward that is the Wiz or the well intentioned humbug that is the Wizard, he is pure evil, He is as Elphaba puts it "horrors". He not only starts up a racist regime of anti-Animal and Quadling sentiment. He starts to exploit all the resources of Oz. He is basically a petty Dictator who has come to power and knows it and uses his power. He believes emotion is irrational, and sees no reason to be honorable. He also is the father of Elphaba, which doesn't make him evil but the fact that he could be so callous to his own daughter and not realize that his own daughter is against him. He was supposed to be smarter but he doesn't care about compassion or duty he only wants power.
and thats why all the wizards are wicked.

posted by IPDB @ 10:17 PM