Post by gypsy on Jun 3, 2004 12:54:59 GMT -5
Ok, so we all know that Elphaba can't come in contact with water, but I made some discoveries and here's what I found out.
Page 259
If she can't touch water, drinking should be no exception. Then why is she accepting an offer for water? A little further down the page, it says how she drinks it too. This made me start looking at ingredients in anything edible or drinkable. There are many things with water in it, which is a given, but if that is so thow can Elphaba even eat if the food all has water in it?
The answer to that question can be taken from her lack of a soul. Upon birth, a baby is baptized to cleanse their souls of the original sins they are born with (this is a Jew talking, so correct me if I'm wrong). Elphaba was never baptized. In fact, she never went near water, even as a small child. She never washed or had anything to do with it.
As she grew older, the sins piled higher and higher inside her soul-less self. She still never touched water... unless it has something ELSE IN IT! Water has to be one of the purest substances in existance, dirty or not. When a child is baptized, it gives them a clean slate, a fresh start: It PURIFIES their souls. Elphaba has no soul, nor is she pure since she has never been baptized.
As long as the water's PURITY is dulled by another substance (such as the lemon and barley in the water Six offered), she can drink it. Doesn't oil even have a tiny water content? Later in the book, when Six gives Elphaba the water with stuff in it, Elphaba takes a really little sip, like she doesn't trust wether or not it really does have other stuff in it.
When doused with a bucket of water in the end of her story, it kills her. It cleansed her of all of her sins, since as of then she had never been baptized. But 38 years of cumulative sins is... a lot. Not to mention how she doesn't have a soul. Because of that, water, being pure, is unbearable for her, and that's why she can't touch it in it's purest form. There, that's my idea. Now it's time for people to yell at me for being dumb!
-gyps
Page 259
"Would you like some lemon barley water?" said Six, ever the servant until the day she dies, unless by luck everyone else died sooner.
"Yes, all right," Elphaba said
"Yes, all right," Elphaba said
If she can't touch water, drinking should be no exception. Then why is she accepting an offer for water? A little further down the page, it says how she drinks it too. This made me start looking at ingredients in anything edible or drinkable. There are many things with water in it, which is a given, but if that is so thow can Elphaba even eat if the food all has water in it?
The answer to that question can be taken from her lack of a soul. Upon birth, a baby is baptized to cleanse their souls of the original sins they are born with (this is a Jew talking, so correct me if I'm wrong). Elphaba was never baptized. In fact, she never went near water, even as a small child. She never washed or had anything to do with it.
As she grew older, the sins piled higher and higher inside her soul-less self. She still never touched water... unless it has something ELSE IN IT! Water has to be one of the purest substances in existance, dirty or not. When a child is baptized, it gives them a clean slate, a fresh start: It PURIFIES their souls. Elphaba has no soul, nor is she pure since she has never been baptized.
As long as the water's PURITY is dulled by another substance (such as the lemon and barley in the water Six offered), she can drink it. Doesn't oil even have a tiny water content? Later in the book, when Six gives Elphaba the water with stuff in it, Elphaba takes a really little sip, like she doesn't trust wether or not it really does have other stuff in it.
When doused with a bucket of water in the end of her story, it kills her. It cleansed her of all of her sins, since as of then she had never been baptized. But 38 years of cumulative sins is... a lot. Not to mention how she doesn't have a soul. Because of that, water, being pure, is unbearable for her, and that's why she can't touch it in it's purest form. There, that's my idea. Now it's time for people to yell at me for being dumb!
-gyps
