Madame Muriel Morrible is a fictional character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The character also appears in the Broadway musical Wicked, which is based on Maguire's novel. She is the wicked headmistress of Crage Hall at Shiz University, and a cohort of The Wizard of Oz. In the musical, Madame Morrible is an experienced sorceress, and instructs a sorcery seminar at Shiz.
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Madame Muriel Morrible is a fictional character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. The character also appears in the Broadway musical Wicked, which is based on Maguire's novel. She is the wicked headmistress of Crage Hall at Shiz University, and a cohort of The Wizard of Oz. In the musical, Madame Morrible is an experienced sorceress, and instructs a sorcery seminar at Shiz.
In the novel, Madame Morrible is described as a "fish faced Gillikinese woman", and uses Shiz to recruit young girls as soldiers and spies for the Wizard, though she does not directly influence him. Madame Morrible believes that Animals (i.e. sentient animals) should be "seen and not heard," which she states at a poetry reading, known as a 'Quell'. She often has a Tik-Tok machine man called Grommetik to do her bidding, and later commands this creature to kill the Goat scientist Doctor Dillamond, which Ama Clutch — Galinda's chaperone — witnesses....
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