Throughout history, it is a known fact that anyone who has been termed different from the majority of the population has been stereotyped and has had to deal with prejudice. This idea has been put in many fantasy books too like in Frankenstein and Wicked.
In Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein's monster is a subject so grotesqe and creepy that everyone is scared and freaked out about him that they don't notice how intelligent he is and how he just wants to be accepted and help people and have a family too. Just because he was created in an unnatural way and looks just as unnatural, he never gets accepted and is turned away by his own creator who ends up going back on his word on making a mate just because the idea of the future scares him.
In Wicked, Elphaba is just a normal girl in the land of Oz but is left out and teased and is treated unfairly all because she has magical talent and green skin which is because her mother had an affair with the wizard and drank a green elixer that affected elphaba's skin color development.
As these examples show, prejudice is not a great thing and people just need to treat people all the same like they would want to be treated because everyone deserves to be happy and treated well and get the same things in life like love, family, acceptance, education, life experience, etc.
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