Mistress of her intergalactic domain

Idina Menzel in the musical "Wicked" on 
October, 2003

Katie Mediatore broadcasted a positive review for “Wicked” for its eccentric role on women. This article accounts a diverse list of novels which depicts the protagonist to be strong and independent women. Mediatore describes the endurance shown by women in history to reflect the hardships they had to face to belong in the fictional and non-fictional world. She also believes that women are the architects of new societies while men are the “explorers of unknown worlds” (Christopher Columbus comes to mind). The struggle to belong in a new world is a familiar task amongst women in our society and most will adapt to survive. Hatshepsut was an Egyptian queen who regularly posed as a man to attain respect from the public. History portrays women as the manufacturers of society to resemble the previous civilization and the male as the heroic identity. Female heroin’s often have male characteristics to provide a capable personality. Katie Mediatore commemorates “Wicked” for its strong representation of women. Elphaba was a tourist in her own land due to her physical abnormalities and was later accepted when she was introduced to another outsider. Her intelligence and sympathy drove her to fight for the talking animals of oz after The Wizards decree to execute them. Her only chance at love and acceptance from society was destroyed due to her defence of the animals of oz. Katie Mediatore quoted that “Wicked” was a “fantastic secret history of Oz “ and readers would be absorbed into the magical perspective of the Wicked Witch of The West before she was deemed wicked.

Source Citation

Mediatore, Kaite. "Mistress of her intergalactic domain." Booklist 15 Apr. 2005: 1443. General OneFile. Web. 19 Oct. 2011.

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