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I'm melting, melting! Who would have thought a little brat like you could destroy such beautiful wickedness.
— Wicked Witch of the West · The Wizard of Oz
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker announces their own destruction in disbelief, then belittles the person responsible as a brat. Calling their wickedness beautiful reveals a lasting vanity: even while melting away, they admire their own evil and resent being defeated by someone they consider insignificant.
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