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Due to her family's noble blood, she is tall, unlike most diminutive Munchkinlanders who are short in stature. Her mother, embarrassed by her green skin, never let her come in contact with other children. Elphaba would only live in Rush Margins of Munchkinland for the first couple of years of her life.

And why is the Wicked Witch of the West green? Growing up, Elphaba is a social outcast, not by choice though. Regardless of her bizarre skin condition, Elphaba seems to be a very normal young lady in all other aspects. In addition to the green skin, she was born with a full set of teeth, as well as a strange, scientifically inexplicable allergy towards water, which causes it to painfully burn her to the bone like acid.

It is hinted that the green potion is what caused Elphaba's skin condition and that her Earthly lineage is what allows her to read the Grimmeriedue to Oz having a different writing system. The local children are cruel and bully the green girl mercilessly.

With the Wizard as ruler, everything is drastically changing as Oz is becoming segregated and racist, especially between the people and talking Animals who once lived comfortably hand in hand in Oz. Now Animals are being treated poorly due to the Wizard's government system which has created a structure for Oz that parallels the events of the Nazi Germany's Holocaust and the turmoil of the Great Depression.

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She is highly intelligent, ambitious, cynical, an independent thinker and a tomboy at heart. When Elphaba was a toddler, her parents were acquainted with Turtle Hearta Quadling glassblower, who would later become lover to both. Since she cannot bathe like normal people, Elphaba must sponge bathe herself in private with a special type of liquid oil to keep clean instead.

This eventually allowed Elphaba to practice the book's magic spells that no one else in Oz could understand. The Wicked Witch of the West was originally the antagonist created by author L. Frank Baum's name, taking the phonetic pronunciation of his initials: hence, L.

B became El-pha-ba. This explains why there are no talking Animals ever seen in the Emerald City. Shortly after her birth, Melena turned into an alcoholic and called on the aid of her childhood Nanny to help care for Elphaba.

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Elphaba Thropp, also known as the Wicked Witch of the West, is the green-skinned protagonist of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. When Elphaba was about three, her family was apparently ran out of Rush Margins and forced to flee to her mother's childhood home of Colwen Grounds, where the glass blower named Turtle Heart, who was the lover of both Elphaba's parents was sacrificed to Clock of The Time Dragon to relieve a drought on the same day that Melena gave birth to her beautiful, handicapped daughter Nessarose.

Eventually, Nanny convinces Melena to allow her daughter to play with others, hoping this would allow Elphaba to form some sort of armor to protect her and make her stronger later in life. The Wicked Witch of the West was originally the antagonist created by author L.

Frank Baum from his children's novel, The Wonderful. What does the name Elphaba mean? As both her daughters are disfigured, Melena believes this is punishment from the "Unnamed God" for her infidelity. Unlike any other Ozian, she was mysteriously born with florescent bright green skin.

Elphaba Thropp (/ ˈɛlfəbə ˈθrɒp / ⓘ) is the protagonist of Gregory Maguire 's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the novel's musical theatre adaptation, and the musical's two-part film adaptation, Wicked () and Wicked: For Good ().

In Wicked this is supposedly because Animals are strictly not allowed. Along with social pressures and hardships, Elphaba is growing up in a time period taking a turn for the worse economically and socially for the land.

Gregory Maguire says it was a way to honor Wizard of Oz writer L. Frank Baum. Elphaba was the biological daughter of Melena Throppthe Thropp 2nd Descending and heiress to the title of Eminent Throppand of Oscar Zoroaster Diggs, who would one day be known as the Wizard of Oz.

However, years before he took over all of Oz, Diggs seduced and drugged Melena with a green "Miracle Elixir" so Melena did not recall the experience and Elphaba grew up believing her stepfather, the Unionist minister Frexsparas her biological father.