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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
This chapter presents the answer of the problems that have been formulated in chapter one. The writer discusses them into two sections. The
discussion of the analysis is started by analyzing the major character, named Edmund, through the conflicts that is faced by Edmund in supporting how
Edmund described. In the end, the writer discusses the massage that can be found from the characteristic of Edmund and his conflicts.
A. Edmund’s Characteristic and his Conflict
In the novel, Edmund is the third child of Pevensies, one of the main characters whose personality changes from bad to good. His characteristic
develops because he gets bad treatment from the White Witch. In this part the writer focuses on his characteristic and his conflicts. It is explained as:
1. Selfish
Edmund is a selfish person. Selfish is having or showing concern only for your self and not for needs or feelings of other people. The other meaning of
selfish is concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking or concentrating on one‘s own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for
other Webster, 2006:1663. It can be seen when Edmund imagine himself as a King in Narnia.
… He did want Turkish Delight and to be a Prince and later a King and to pay Peter out of calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do
with the others, he didn‘t want her to be particularly nice to them-certainly not to put them on th
e same level as himself; … Lewis, 2007:89
The quotation above gives a clue that Edmund is selfish. He does not want his sibling in the same level with him. He also does not want the White Witch
gives a nice attention to them. He wants to be the highest one. ―When I‘m King of Narnia thing I shall do will be to make some decent
roads.‖ And of course that set him off thinking about being a King and all the other things he would do and this cheered him up a good deal. He had
just settled in his mind what sort of palace he would have and how many cars and all about his private cinema and where the principal railways
would run and what laws he would make against beavers and dams and was putting the finishing touches to some scheme for keeping Peter in his
place, when the weather changed. Lewis, 2007:91
That also supports the assumption that he is selfish from what he thinks about if he becomes a King in Narnia someday. He will make some decent roads.
He thinks about what sort of palace he would have. He wants to live luxuriously and he does not think about his siblings. He just thinks about the other things that
will make him happy. For example he wants to have a private cinema, some cars, make a law against the beavers and make scheme for keeping Peter in the beavers
place. The White Witch is a not a real Queen in Narnia. She is a horrible witch
that everybody in Narnia hates her. She also makes the country is always in winter.
―She isn‘t real Queen at all,‖ answer Lucy; ―she‘s a horrible witch, the White Witch. Every one
—all the wood people—hate her. She has made an enchantment over the whole country so that it is always winter here and
never Christmas.‖ Lewis, 2007:59
Edmund‘s conflict againsts the witch that focuses to bring Edmund‘s siblings also can be the depiction how selfish Edmund is. From what Edmund
thinks about being a King, he decides to tell the witch about his siblings. ―I‘m come, your Majesty,‖ said Edmund, rushing eagerly forward.
―How dare you come alone?‖ said the Witch in terrible voice. ―Did I not tell you to bring the other with you?‖
―Please, your Majesty,‖ said Edmund, ―I‘ve done the best I can, I‘ve brought them quite close. They‘re in the little house on top of the dam just
up the river- with Mr. and Mrs. Beaver.‖ Lewis, 2007:99
In that conversation, the writer can conclude that Edmund is a selfish person. He brings his sibling quite close with them. He tells the witch that his
siblings in Mr. and Mrs. Beaver‘s house. He does not bring his siblings because he wants to be the only King in Narnia. That is why he does not bring his siblings
to the witch‘s house. That is the best things that he can do. If he brings his siblings to the witch‘s house, he thinks that the Witch will also make his siblings to be the
King of Narnia. He will not put Peter on the same level with him because he does not like when Peter calls him a beast. Edmund‘s selfishness brings him in this
situation, conflict against other person. Furthermore
, Edmund‘s selfishness changes him into a greedy person. Greedy is having or showing a selfish desire to have more of something such as a
money or food. Greedy also has meaning very eager to have something Webster, 2006: 805. In the novel, the writer knows that he is a greedy person because he
always concerns only for himself: seeking or concentrating on one‘s own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for other. It can be seen when
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