Wicked
Through the novel wicked it has multiple themes but a major theme is fate vs freewill. The wicked witch Elphaba wants to be good but her fate in life causes her to be evil and her freewill will never allow her to be good. Elphaba is trying to figure out if she is under control or not and why her life is the way it is she thinks of it as a giant chess game “I just mean, Glinda, is it possible we could be living our entire adult lives under someone's spell? How could we tell if we were the pawns of someone's darker game(Maguire 75)?” She doesn't believe she will ever figure out the game she is stuck wondering “The word adept sent chills down Elphie's spine. Was Nessarose even now responding to some sort of spell that Madame Morrible had placed on…show more content… Was she in fact a pawn, an Adept of the Wizard or of Madame Morrible? Did she know why she did what she did? For that matter, was Elphaba herself merely a playing piece of a higher, evil power(Maguire 10)?” If she was skilled or just worthless and she tried everything possible to find out how much potential she had. The next theme that sets the stage from all the talk about the game she's stuck in and if she truly is a chess piece is the defeat all throughout her life. Defeat is shown through Elphaba by her always failing and her disappointment towards herself and through her pain her true evil comes out. Elphaba is so down on herself she really wants to freak out “Elphie clenched her fists and tried to keep from striking herself. "Liir gone too," she said. "I came here to make my apologies to Sarima and I lost Liir in the bargain. Am I good for nothing in this life(Maguire 7)?” she wants so bad to feel successful and happy but her constant defeat in her life is forcing her to become violent toward