Something I really loved about the wicked movie was how it highlighted how compassionate and self sacrificing Elphaba really is.
She only has her position in the school because of her talent for sorcery, and Morrible is the one who let her in, and still, at a word from nessa, she threatened to quit and potentially lose her position at school, her whole life and her whole future, just to do something nice for galinda, who has treated her like garbage for the entire time that she’s known her.
Elphaba is willing to give up every piece of herself to anyone in need, to anyone who shows her loved ones—and not even herself—a sliver of compassion that she has scarcely experienced. And this is shown in her relationship with glinda, where Glinda gives her an inch and she gives her a mile. She loves so, so deeply and she has experienced so little of it in return. When she finally receives love, she gives with her entire self, and she gives her entire self away to those who are suffering unjustly. Her entire future, her one chance at acceptance by everyone.
She respects Glindas choice not to go with her because she loves her so much. Elphaba can read everyone to a T except for the people that she loves. Give Elphaba a sliver of love and you can do no wrong in her eyes.
Look at how she treats Glinda before she falls in love with her. She becomes blind to her faults the way she is to nessas. The way she is to Madame Morribles until it’s too late.
And that’s what makes her relationship with Fiyero interesting too. She sees who he truly he is and falls in love with him before he gives her love in turn, and even though he has nothing to gain from it, he falls in love with her in turn. He is the one to take the step towards her versus her running to him the way she does with nessa and later Glinda.
And it is after she receives this true love and loses it that she loses herself entirely. On top of everyone else she has lost. She loved wholeheartedly and she gave her self to the world and the world destroyed the people she loved for it. Without her love, there is no Elphaba. No good deed is the ultimate shattering of Elphaba Thropp, and she never recovers after. Even when she discovers Fiyero is alive, she knows she has lost herself because she cannot give anymore of herself than she already has because now that she has experienced true love she cannot lose it. Even if she loses her other true love in the process. Because she does love glinda, maybe even more than she does Fiyero. But it is the last sliver of herself that doesn’t tell Glinda the truth, that sets her on a journey to fix oz. The last remnants of Elphaba Thropp, her last selfless act, even though she is screaming to tell her, to let Glinda know.
Elphaba and glinda end their respective journeys where the other started. Elphaba cannot fight anymore, and Glindas fight has just begun. But both are equally broken. They have lost each other, but Elphaba has gained community with Fiyero while glinda is forever alone, because no one will ever be able to understand the truth that elphaba always knew that she now does. Glinda surrendered the most fulfilling relationship of her life with the most incredible person she had ever met to the man she so desperately clung to, who she had already lost when she made the decision to abandon the woman he loved.
Elphaba never regained herself after fiyeros “death”, after nessas death, after Dr Dillamonds destruction, after Glindas abandonment. She fought to cling to herself through it all, through her entire, miserable life, but in the end, she lost. She realized that she as herself could do no good in the world, not for the animals, not for her loved ones, not for love, so what was the point of it all? So she started her suicide campaign to get her sisters/mothers shoes back even at the cost of an innocents life, when the whole time she was supposed to be fighting for innocents. I believe she would have driven herself to her actual death if not for fiyeros note.
His survival was the only thing she had left to cling to. Because even with all the love and forgiveness she espoused and truly believed, whatever glinda did by then would never have been enough. Their relationship had been through too much. And that’s the tragedy of it all, isn’t it?
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