《绿野仙踪》人物性格的自我矛盾性分析

ANALYSIS OF SELF-CONTRADICTIONARY CHARACTERS IN THE WIZARD OF OZAbstractThe Wizard of Oz is a wonderful fairy tale which is also suitable for adults to read. It tells a story about a girl named Dorothy Gale after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a tornado to the country of Oz finds the way to return home. She encounters and befriends the Scarecrow who wants a brain, the Tin Woodman who wants a heart,and the Cowardly Lion who wants some courage,to find the wizard of Oz together. The story discusses the theme of self-contradiction. These three characters embody the classical human virtues of intelligence, caring, and courage, but their self-doubts keep them from being reduced to mere symbols of these qualities. They dont lack them at all, and what they really need is actually sufficent self-confidence and right self-recognition. Those characters stand for different kinds of us, so it deserves our serious study to know us better, encourage us to trust ourselves firmly, recognise us rightly and depend on our own power to get what we want for better life and more cheerful struggle.Key Words: self-confidence; self-recognition; self-contradiction绿野仙踪是适合成人阅读的童话，它主要讲述了一个女孩多萝西在被龙卷风带到神奇的奥兹国后，努力寻找回家之路的故事。一路上她遇到了稻草人、铁皮伐木工和胆小的狮子。它们分别想要获得大脑、心和勇气，并和想要回家的多萝西一起踏上了寻找奥兹国的巫师的奇妙旅程。但是事实上，他们所要寻找的东西他们都已经拥有了，只是自己没有意识到而已。这部童话告诉我们，我们每个人身上都有自我矛盾性，我们已经拥有我们想要的品性，而真正缺少的，其实是自信和正确的自我认知。生活中，我们每个人身上都有他们的影子，通过对这些人物性格的分析，可以让我们更好地了解自己，并鼓励我们做一个自信的人，真正去了解自己，相信自己，通过自己的力量获得我们想要的一切，更好地生活与奋斗。关键词： 自信 自我认知 自我矛盾1. IntroductionThe Wizard of Oz is a childrens novel written by L.Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a tornado. She encounters and befriends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion to find the wizard of Oz for different purposes together.The novel is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Baum explores the theme of self-contradiction in The Wizard of Oz. The Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion all lack self-confidence. The Scarecrow believes that he has no brains, though he comes up with clever solutions to several problems that they encounter on their journey. The Tin Woodman believes that he lacks a heart, but is moved to tears when misfortune befalls the various creatures they meet. The Cowardly Lion believes that he has no courage even though he is consistently brave through their journey. Carl L. Bankston III of Salem Press noted that These three characters embody the classical human virtues of intelligence, caring, and courage, but their self-doubts keep them from being reduced to mere symbols of these qualities.From those characters in it, we can learn that there are many good qualities in us which we may even never know at all, and no one except yourself can give you what you want. 1.1 The PlotDorothy is an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle in the bleak landscape of a Kansas farm and has a little black dog named Toto . One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy and Toto inside, is caught up in a cyclone and deposited in a field in Munchkin Country, and the falling house kills the evil ruler of the Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the East.The Good Witch of the North who comes with the Munchkins to greet Dorothy gives Dorothy the silver shoes (believed to have magical properties) that the Wicked Witch had been wearing when she was killed. In order to return to Kansas, the Good Witch of the North tells Dorothy that she will have to go to the Emerald Cityand ask the Wizard of Oz to help her. On her way she meets a Scarecrow who needs a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who desperately needs courage. They all hope the Wizard of Oz will help them. The party finds many adventures on their journey together, including overcoming obstacles such as narrow pieces of the yellow brick road, vicious Kalidahs, a river, and the Deadly Poppies. Then travelers arrive at the Emerald City.When each traveler meets with the Wizard, he appears each time as someone or something different. To Dorothy, the Wizard is a giant head; the Scarecrow sees a beautiful woman; the Tin Woodman sees a terrible beast; the Cowardly Lion sees a ball of fire. The Wizard agrees to help each of thembut only if one of them kills the Wicked Witch of the West who rules over the western Winkie Country. As the friends travel across the Winkie Country, the Wicked Witch sees them coming and attempts various ways of killing them, she used 40 great wolves, 40 crows, a swarm of bees and her Winkie soldiers to attack them, but all failed. At last, she summons the Winged Monkeys to capture Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion and Toto to her castle to do hard work.and to destroy the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.At the castle, when the Wicked Witch gains one of Dorothys silver shoes by trickery, Dorothy in anger grabs a bucket of water and throws it on the Wicked Witch. To her shock, this causes the Witch to melt away. Dorothy, after finding and learning how to use the Golden Cap, summons the Winged Monkeys to carry her and her companions back to the Emerald City.When Dorothy and her friends meet the Wizard of Oz again, he tries to put them off. Toto accidentally tips over a screen in a corner of the throne room, revealing the Wizard to be an ordinary old man who had journeyed to Oz from Omba long ago in a hot air balloon. The Wizard has been longing to return to his home and be in a circus again ever since.To convince the characters they have the qualities they desire, the Wizard places an amalgamation of bran, pins, and needles in the Scarecrows head to inspire intellect; gives a silk heart to the Tin Woodman to inspire love; and a drink to the Cowardly Lion to inspire bravery.Oz makes a hot balloon to take him and Dorothy home, but Dorothy chases Toto after he runs after a kitten in the crowd and misses the rising balloon. So she have to Glindas palace in the Quadling Country with her friends to ask for help. On the road, they escape the Fighting Trees, tread carefully through the China Country and The Cowardly Lion kills a giant spider who is terrorizing the animals in a forest .At Glindas palace, it is revealed by Glinda that Dorothy had the power to go home all along. The Silver Shoes she wears can take her anywhere she wishes to go. She tearfully embraces her friends, all of whom will be returned, through Glindas use of the Golden Cap, to their respective kingdoms: the Scarecrow to the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman to the Winkie Country, and the Cowardly Lion to the forest. Then Dorothy knocks her heels together three times, and wishes to return home. When she opens her eyes, Dorothy and Toto have returned to Kansas to a joyful family reun多萝西是一个由她的叔叔和婶婶长大的孤儿的荒凉景观堪萨斯农场,有一个小黑狗名叫托托。农舍的一天,多萝西和托托里面,被卷入飓风和沉积在一个领域里的国家,和房子杀死邪恶的统治者梦境人下降,东方的坏女巫。北方的好女巫伴随着梦境人迎接多萝西给多萝西银色的鞋子(认为魔法属性),坏女巫已经穿当她被杀。为了回到堪萨斯,北方的好女巫告诉多萝西,她将不得不去“翡翠城”,要求绿野仙踪帮助她。路上她遇到谁需要大脑的稻草人,铁皮人谁想要一个心脏,一个懦弱的狮子迫切需要勇气。他们都希望绿野仙踪将帮助他们。党发现许多一起冒险的旅程,包括克服障碍,如狭窄的黄砖路,恶性原,一条河流,致命的罂粟花。然后游客到达翡翠城。当每个旅行者与向导中,他似乎每次某人或某事不同。多萝西,向导是一个巨大的头,稻草人看到一个漂亮的女人;锡樵夫看到一个可怕的野兽,懦弱的狮子看到了一个火球。向导也喜欢帮助每个人,但只有其中一人杀死了邪恶的西方女巫在西方Winkie规则的国家。作为Winkie对面的朋友旅游国家,邪恶的巫婆看到他们到来,并尝试各种方式杀死他们,她用40大狼,40乌鸦,一群蜜蜂和她Winkie士兵袭击他们,但都失败了。最后,她召唤飞猴的捕捉多萝西,她懦弱的狮子和托托城堡做艰苦的工作。和摧毁稻草人和铁皮樵夫。在城堡,当邪恶的巫婆收益多萝西的一个银色的鞋子通过欺骗,多萝西愤怒地拿起一桶水,把邪恶的巫婆。她的震惊,这使女巫融化。多萝西,在查找和学习如何使用金帽,召唤有翼的猴子把她和她的同伴回到翡翠城。当多萝西和她的朋友再次见到绿野仙踪,他试图把它们关掉。托托不小心碰翻了一个屏幕在正殿的一角,露出向导是一个普通的老人来到盎司从Omba很久以前在一个热气球。向导一直渴望回到家中,再在马戏团。说服他们品质的字符欲望,向导地方麸皮的融合,别针,和稻草人的头针激发智力,使丝绸心锡樵夫激发爱;和一个喝激发勇气的胆小的狮子。Oz使热气球把他和多萝西带回家,但多萝西追逐托托在他跑在人群中一个小猫和忽略了上升的气球。所以她不得不葛琳达Quadling宫的国家和她的朋友们寻求帮助。在路上,他们躲避战乱树,小心的通过中国国家和懦弱的狮子杀死了一个巨大的蜘蛛是谁恐吓动物在森林。葛琳达的宫殿,它是由葛琳达透露,多萝西回家的权力。银鞋她穿可以带她她想去的任何地方。她含泪拥抱朋友,都将返回,通过葛琳达使用金帽,各自的王国:翡翠城的稻草人,铁皮樵夫Winkie国家,森林的懦弱的狮子。然后多萝西三次一起敲她的高跟鞋,想回家。当她打开她的眼睛,多萝西和托托回到堪萨斯快乐的家庭聚会。 The AuthorLyman L. Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 May 6, 1919) was an American author of childrens books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four lost novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Janes Nieces at Work).2. Character Analysis 2.2 The Scarecrow: resourced and calmThe Scarecrow encounters Dorothy in a field in the Munchkin Country while she is on her way to the Emerald City. He tells her about his creation (he is only two days old)and of how he at first scared away the crows, before an older one realised he was a straw man, causing the other crows to start eating the corn. The old crow then told the Scarecrow of the importance of brains. The mindless Scarecrow joins Dorothy in the hope that The Wizard will give him a brain. Brains are the only thing worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.he said.They are later joined by the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. When the group goes to the West, he frequently finds the solution to particularly vexing situations and helps himself and his friends get out of danger. After Dorothy and her friends have completed their mission to kill the Wicked Witch of the West, the Wizard gives the Scarecrow brains ,which is just made out of bran, pins and needles in reality a placebo, as he has been the most intelligent of the travelers all along, only then does the Scarecrow believe himself smart.Before he leaves Oz in a balloon, the Wizard appoints the Scarecrow to rule the Emerald City in his stead. In fact,we can easily find that the Scrarecrow is the most resouced and cleverest in the party. He always came up with good ideas when they were facing danger and didnt know what to do. There are many examples:When the Kalidahs, a kind of monstrous beasts, catched them, the party fled to a gulf across the road which was so broad and deep that they could not leap across it. So they sat down to consider what they shold do,and sfter serious thought the Scarecrow said: “Here is a great tree, standing close to the ditch. If the Tin Woodman can chop it down, so that it will fall to the other side,we can walk across it easily.”That is a first-rate idea,”said the Lion,” One would almost suspect you had brains in your head,instead of straw.” They did like he said. But when they started too cross this queer bridge, the Kalidahs were running toward them. They quickly crossed over and were prepared to fight them. At this time, our resouced guy thought out a good idea again.”Wait a minute!”called the Scarecrow,and asked the Woodman to chop away the end of the tree that rested on their side of the ditch. Just as the Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell wiyh a crash into the gulf,carrying the ugly,snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom. The Scarecrows quick thinking continues all the way to the end of the novel. No matter what happens, he is always calmly ponder and get out a proper solution.When Dorothy and the Lion sleeped in the deadly poppy field, he asked the Tin Woodman to make a chair with their hands and carry Dorothy out of the field and suggested the Queen of the Field-Mice calling her thousands of mice to pull the Lion out.Just like what Oz said, the Scarecrow didnt need brains, he was learnig something everyday. A baby has brains, but it didnt know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer he was on earth the more experience he was sure to get. What he needed was just confidence and self-recognition, and it is the same with the Cowardly Lion as well as the Tin Woodman .、稻草人遇到多萝西在一个领域里的国家,她是去翡翠城的路上。他告诉她关于他的创建(他只有两天的历史)和他起初吓跑的乌鸦,在老之前意识到他是一个稻草人,导致其他乌鸦开始吃玉米。老乌鸦然后告诉大脑的稻草人的重要性。“盲目”稻草人加入多萝西,希望向导将给他一个大脑。“大脑是唯一值得拥有的在这个世界上,不管你是乌鸦还是一个男人。”他说。他们是后来加入了锡樵夫和胆小的狮子。当组去西方,他经常发现的解决方案特别棘手的情况,帮助自己和他的朋友们摆脱危险。多萝西和她的朋友们已经完成了他们的使命后杀死西方坏女巫,向导给了稻草人的大脑,这是由糠,如坐针毡在现实中安慰剂,他最聪明的旅行者,只有这样,稻草人认为自己聪明。在他离开盎司一个气球,向导指定规则的翡翠之城的稻草人。事实上,我们可以很容易地发现Scrarecrow是最resouced和聪明。他总是想出好点子时面临危险和不知道该做什么。有许多例子:原时,一种巨大的野兽,抓住他们,逃到路对面的一个海湾,是如此广泛而深入,他们不能跳过它。所以他们坐下来考虑他们该做什么,和sfter严重觉得稻草人说:“这是一个伟大的树,站在沟里。如果锡樵夫砍下来,所以它将下降到另一边,我们可以轻松地走过。”“这是一个一流的主意,”狮子说,“一个几乎怀疑你的大脑在你的脑海中,而不是草。”就像他说的那样。但是当他们开始太过这奇怪的桥,原跑向他们。他们很快渡过去,准备战斗。在这个时候,我们resouced家伙想出一个好主意。“等一下!”叫做稻草人,问樵夫砍了树,落在他们的最后的沟里。正如原几乎是在,树下跌wiyh崩溃到墨西哥湾,带着丑陋,纠结于野兽,和两人都摔碎在底部的尖锐的岩石。稻草人的敏捷的思维继续到结束的小说。不管发生什么事,他总是冷静地思考和妥善解决。离去,当多萝西和狮子致命的罂粟,他要求锡樵夫把椅子上用手,多萝西的领域,并建议女王总叫她把狮子从成千上万的老鼠。就像奥兹说,稻草人不需要大脑,他每天学的东西。一个婴儿的大脑,但它并不太了解。经验是带来知识的唯一,他在地球上的时间越长,他肯定会得到更多的经验。他所需要的是信心和自我识别,和它是一样的胆小的狮子和铁皮樵夫。2.3 The Cowardly Lion: brave and strong The Cowardly Lion is the last of the companions Dorothy befriends on her way to the Emerald City. When he tries to bite Toto, Dorothy calls him a coward, and he admits that he is. The Cowardly Lion joins her so that he can ask The Wizard for courage, being ashamed that, in his cultural role as the King of the Beasts, he is not indeed brave. Despite outward evidence that he is unreasonably fearful, The Cowardly Lion displays great bravery along the way. During the journey, he leaps across a chasm on the road of yellow brick multiple times, each time with a companion on his back, and the leap back to get the next one. When they come into another, wider chasm, the Cowardly Lion holds off two Kalidahs while the Tin Woodman cuts a tall tree to cross it. In spite of his fears, he still goes off to hunt for his food, and he even offers to kill a deer for Dorothy to eat, but the idea makes her uncomfortable.When he and Dorothy were imprisoned by the Wicked Witch of the West and the Witch starved him to threaten him to be harnessed like a horse, the Lion never gave in and answered:” No.If you come in this yard, I will bite you!”However, finally the Wizard gives him a dish of unknown liquid, telling him it is courage to drink. He accompanies Dorothy on her journey to see Glinda, and allows his friends to stand on his back in order to escape the Dainty China Country.In the Forest of Wild Beasts in the Quadling Country, all of the lions and many of the other animals have been eaten by a giant Spider. The Lion finds the Spider asleep and decapitates it. The Tiger and the other animals bow to him and ask him to be their king, and he promises to do so upon his return from accompanying Dorothy to Glinda. Glinda orders the Winged Monkeys to carry him back to the Forest once Dorothy has returned home.Just like the Scarecrow Woodman, the Crowdly Lion is not crowdly at all, intead he is so brave and strong that he can protect everyone in the party, he is just lack of confidence. We can find this from a lot of examples,especially this interesting one:When they must come across a great ditch,he said: I am terribly afraid of falling,myself, but I suppose there is nothing to do but try it. So get on my back and we will make the attempt.”scrarecrow sat upon the Lions back, and the big beast walked to the edge of the gulf and crouched down.“ Why dont you run and jump?”asked the Scarecrow.“Because that isnt the way we Lions do these things,”he replied. Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side. They were all greatly pleased to see how easily he did it, and after the Scarecrow had got down from his back the Lion sprang across the ditch again.It is natural for him to behave like a truly intrepid and powerful lion to fight against every and protect the small and weak. But he didnt know how brave he is at all and often feel sad for his cowardice. Actually he is just too kind and heartful, often weeping for others misery and easily to be moved to tears, not like those cold and cruel monsters without any emotion, and is short of self-confidence like the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.懦弱的狮子是最后的同伴多萝西与翡翠城的路上。当他试图咬托托,多萝西称他是个懦夫,他承认,他是。懦弱的狮子加入她的勇气,这样他可以问向导,是羞愧,在他的文化作为野兽之王,确实他不勇敢。尽管外在证据表明他是不合理的恐惧,胆小的狮子显示伟大的勇气。在旅途中,他飞跃跨越鸿沟的黄砖路上多次,每次都伴在他的背上,跳回得到下一个。当他们进入另一个更大的鸿沟,胆小鬼狮子持有两个原而锡樵夫削减一棵大树横。尽管他的恐惧,他仍然去寻找他的食物,他甚至提供了多萝西的杀死一只鹿吃,但这个想法让她很不舒服。当他和多萝西被监禁的邪恶的西方女巫,女巫饿死他威胁他要利用像一匹马,狮子从不屈服了,回答说:“没有。如果你在这院子里来,我就咬你!”然而,最后向导给他一个未知液体,告诉他这是“勇气”喝。他伴随多萝西在她旅程葛琳达,并允许他的朋友站在他的背上为了逃避中国的国家。在森林里的野兽Quadling国家,所有的狮子和许多其他动物吃掉了一个巨大的蜘蛛。狮子发现蜘蛛和decapitates睡着了。老虎和其他的动物屈服于他,问他作他们的王,和他承诺陪着多萝西回到葛琳达。葛琳达订单有翼的猴子把他送回森林一旦多萝西回到家。就像稻草人樵夫,Crowdly狮子不是Crowdly,大家他是如此的勇敢和强壮的,他可以保护每个人在党内,他只是缺乏信心。我们可以从很多实例,发现这特别有趣:当他们必须遇到一个伟大的沟,他说:“我非常害怕下降,我自己,但我想没有什么但是试试。所以在我背上,我们将尝试。“scrarecrow坐在狮子背上,巨兽走到边缘的海湾,蹲了下来。“你为什么不跑和跳吗?”稻草人问道。“因为这不是我们狮子做这些事情的方式,”他回答说。然后给一个伟大的春天,他通过空气和安全降落在另一边。他们都非常高兴地看到他是多么容易,并且在稻草人从回到狮子跳在沟里。很自然的对他表现得像一个真正勇敢的和强大的狮子对抗,保护弱小。但他不知道他是多么勇敢,经常为他的懦弱感到悲伤。实际上他只是太善良和真诚的,经常为别人的痛苦,容易感动流泪,不像那些寒冷和残忍的怪物没有任何情感,和缺乏自信稻草人和铁皮樵夫。 2.4 The Tin Woodman: sentimental and kind-heartedThe Tin Woodman had a sad story. He used to make his living chopping down trees in the forests of Oz. The Wicked Witch of the East enchanted his axe to prevent him from marrying the girl that he loved, after being bribed by the lazy old woman who kept the girl as a servant, and did not wish to lose her. The enchanted axe chopped off his limbs, one by one. Each time he lost a limb, he replaced it with a prosthetic limb made of tin. Finally, nothing was left of him but tin. However, Ku-Klip, the tinsmith who helped him, neglected to replace his heart. Once he was made entirely of tin, he was no longer able to love the girl he had fallen for.Then Dorothy Gale be