Wicked
Dr. Dillamond is an of import figure within Elphaba ’s taradiddle inWicked , but what happened to him , and will this quality rejoin in the next picture show . Voiced by Peter Dinklage , the caprine animal Dr. Dillamond is Elphaba and Galinda ’s History instructor at Shiz University — the very last Animal instructor at Oz ’s prestigious school . He and Elphaba develop a friendly relationship in the firstWickedmovie build on the fact that they both know what it feels like to be ostracized . However , after Dr. Dillamond was arrested , his fiber was absent for the balance of the moving-picture show .
InWicked ’s world of Oz , animal are sentient puppet with the power to speak , be educated , and form communities . There are hint throughout Elphaba ’s narration that they used to hold high positions within society and even used to run Shiz University as its staff and governance . However , this slowly begins to change as the the great unwashed of Oz become prejudiced against Animals . Dr. Dillamond was one of the last to stay at Shiz and used his position as a story teacher to plant seeds of change among the students . Unfortuantely , this got him in trouble inWicked .
Why Dr. Dillamond Is Taken Away & Not Allowed To Teach Anymore
Dr. Dillamond Was The Last Of His Kind At Shiz
Dr. Dillamond had recognise for quite some time beforeWickedthat something bad was happening in Oz . In the motion-picture show , Elphaba discovered that her history teacher was host beast at his nursing home , and they would total to share their fear about the subjugation they were facing . Many chose to leave Oz before anything defective could occur to them , but Dr. Dillamond seemed compulsive to stay and seek to make a modification . However , during one of his lesson , the goat was arrested and take away , seemingly for overspread entropy about the tranquil trend against Animals that everyone else seemed to be snub .
The characters of the Broadway arrive at Wicked drumhead to the big screen with a cast that include a pop maven , an Oscar winner , and numerous stage veterans .
The teacher who replaced Dr. Dillamond show students a baby social lion in a John Milton Cage Jr. , explaining that such conditions of isolation help to ensure the Animal would never determine to speak . This support to Elphaba what Dr. Dillamond had warned her about . Animals were being punished for verbalise out and sharing their opinions , and the fear of this natural event — or perhaps some magical force — was causing even adult like Dr. Dillamond to forget how to talk . John Milton Cage Jr. seemed to be a style to quicken up this process .
Elphaba Has A Vision Of Dr. Dillamond’s Fate
Animals Keep Getting Thrown Into Cages
After Dr. Dillamond ’s arrest , Elphaba had a vision of her beloved instructor locked in a cage . Wickedalready sustain that Elphaba ’s sight are accurate since she saw Oz throwing a celebration all to do with her ( though she did n’t realize that they were celebrating her death ) . Elphaba was greatly disturbed by this vision and begin to believe that the only thing she could do about this and the cosmopolitan troth of the Animals was talk to the Wizard . As she told Dr. Dillamond during " Something Bad , " this was why Oz had a Wizard , so nothing bad would happen to the citizens .
Animals , who are already so dissimilar from the general universe , made for the sodding scapegoats .
Of course , it is finally revealed inWickedthat the Wizard is precisely whyAnimals like Dr. Dillamond were being oppress — a fact foreshadowed when Elphaba accidentally destroyed the stone cutting of the wizard that covered the persona of animate being teaching at Shiz . The Wizard wanted power over the hoi polloi of Oz , andthe honest way he could ascertain this was to give the citizenry an enemy they believed only he could protect them against . animal , who are already so different from the world-wide population , made for the perfect scapegoat . Caging and silencing those like Dr. Dillamond was all part of the process .
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How Wicked Changes Dr. Dillamond’s Fate From The Book
Something Even Darker Befalls Dr. Dillamond In The Wicked Book
Dr. Dillamond ’s luck of being caged in theWickedmusical and movie is middling fearsome , but it ’s far more tame than what come about to him in thebook by Gregory Maguire . In this original version of the narration , Dr. Dillamond was a Science teacher , andhe and Elphaba had been working together to prove that Animals and non - sentient animals were biologically dissimilar . However , this enquiry came to a halt when Dillamond was found dead with his throat cut .
Madam Morrible predominate Dr. Dillamond ’s death an accident , stating that he had fallen on a impoverished magnifying spyglass and tragically bled to death . However , Elphaba maintained a firm belief that her teacher and friend had been murdered because of their research together . So , she push through and continued their study alone in closed book . Though this is drastically unlike than the version of the story in the firstWickedmovie , Dr. Dillamond ’s case served the same purpose regardless . His destiny was a significant incentive for the activism that would drive Elphaba onwards for the rest of the account .
What Dr. Dillamond’s Firing Means For Elphaba & Glinda
This Begins Both Their Political Journeys
Dr. Dillamond ’s firing and arrest solidify Elphaba ’s firmness to make a alteration . She was all the more determined to see the Wizard and necessitate for his help , and , luckily for her , the chance come shortly after . Dillamond ’s fate intend something very unlike for Galinda , however . While she was sympathetic , she did n’t see these job as being anything she could actually fix herself . However , wanting to impress both Elphaba and Fiyero ( who had quickly join Elphaba in her concern),Galinda modify her name to Glindain Dillamond ’s honor — a fairly empty motion .
Will Dr. Dillamond Return In Wicked 2?
Dr. Dillamond May Make A Quick Return
Elphaba believed in the firstWickedmovie that talking to the Wizard would fix everything . She was sure that Oz ’s drawing card did n’t live about the struggles front by the Animals and that if she told him , Dr. Dillamond could hopefully refund to Shiz . However , the realization that the Wizard was behind everything pushed all of this from her mind . The goat was never mentioned , butthis wo n’t be the last sentence he will be seen in Elphaba ’s story . Unfortunately , her visual sense is destined to come true inWicked : Part 2when she comes face to brass with the miserable goat in a John Cage .
In theWickedshow ’s 2nd act , Elphaba return to the Wizard ’s tower to free the flying monkeys but is confront by the valet de chambre himself and again offer up a place by his side . The Wizard differentiate Elphaba all about how the people of Oz put the label of " wonderful"on him , so he has no option but to judge to meet their expectations . He made it seem as if he would be uncoerced to help her if she would aid him , and Elphaba was very nigh charm . However , she then discover Dr. Dillamond in a John Cage , ineffective to speak , and Elphaba turns againstWicked ’s Wizard for goodness .
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loathsome adapts the Broadway musical into a two - part film , following the unlikely friendship between Elphaba , born with green skin , and Glinda , a popular aristocrat , in the Land of Oz . As they navigate their contrasting paths , they germinate into Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West .
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