Dec 4, 2024
I loved Glinda in the dancing scene, it is her one moment of meaningful action amongst all her fake activism.
As an allegory, it also shows what those with privilege and a voice can do to help marginalised people. When Elphaba dances, making her statement, she is mocked. When Glinda joins in, she is told not to because she is also defying norms by making the same ‘statement’ - and then suddenly it trends, is accepted and loved.
It is so tragic in the end, how Glinda’s cowardice takes her a step back, leaving her as a complicit centrist, and both of them without the other.
