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Nessarose Thropp.
Nessarose Thropp, Eminence of Munchkinland, known to her subjects as the tyrant, Wicked Witch of the East, is a character from the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by author Gregory Maguire and the hit Broadway musical Wicked.
Nessarose is the spoiled younger sister of Elphaba, the "Wicked Witch of the West". In the novel, Elphaba is considered a tomboy second to her very beautiful and attractive, but delicately handicapped younger sister, and is often expected to put the needs of Nessarose before her own.
During her rule over Munchkinland, she is dubbed "The Wicked Witch of the East", for her one-sided business deals, cruel ways, and overall use of sorcery to control her people. Nessarose meets her demise when Dorothy Gale's farmhouse, which was carried by a Kansas cyclone, unexpectedly lands in Oz and tragically crushes her to death. Thus, enabling Dorothy to become the new owner of her magic slippers.
Character description[]
Nessarose is the beautiful but physically handicapped (born with no arms in the book and paraplegic in musical) sister of Elphaba. She is bald in the books and this is why the Nessa actress in the musical is the only actress without a wig. She gains the ability to walk unsupported thanks to the enchanted shoes. In both the book and musical, the character is portrayed in a less negative light than in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book or The Wizard of Oz movie, although she becomes fanatical, (something of a religious "nut-job" in the books and desperately and manipulatively dependent on the munchkin Boq in the musical), so much so that she limits the rights of the Munchkins and ends up being referred to as a 'wicked witch'.