Selfishness brings you in a misery
And Edmund gave a very superior look as if he were far older than Lucy there was really only a year‘s difference and then a little snigger and
said, ―Oh, yes, Lucy and I have been playing-pretending that all her story about a country in the wardrobe is true. Just for fun, of course. There‘s
nothing there really Lewis, 2007:45 To reach his desire to be a King in Narnia, he becomes a liar. Edmund lies
to his sibling because he does not want they know about Narnia. Like what the witch said that he has kept secret about Narnia and he has already met the White
Witch in order he can be a King there. So, he tells that a country in the wardrobe is nothing. Telling a lie brings him in a conflict against his siblings. The external
conflict complicates him. This statement that can represent that his selfishness will complicate him to reach his desire, as follow:
―Look here,‖ said Peter, turning on him savagely, ―shut up You‘ve been perfectly beastly to Lu ever since she started this nonsense about the
wardrobe, and now you go playing games with her about it and setting her off again. I believe you did it simply out of spite Lewis, 2007:
45.‖
In that quotation, his selfishness brings him in a conflict with his sibling. By Edmund conflicting with his sibling he cannot bring his sibling to the Witch as
a requirement to be a King and it will stir him up in to other problems. Edmund goes to Narnia for the second time, but at this time he comes with
his siblings and they do not know about Narnia. He goes to the witch‘s house alone. There, he gets a bad treatment from the White Witch. can not bring his
sibling with him in her house, as follow: ―Take it away,‖ said Edmund sulkily. ―I don‘t want dry bread.‖ But the
Witch suddenly turned on him with such a terrible expression on her face that he apologized and began to nibble at the bread, though it was so stale
he could hardly get it down.
―You may be glad enough of it before you taste bread again,‖ said the Witch Lewis, 2007:112.
From the quotation above, Edmund disappoints to the Witch because he is given dry bread and he cannot get want he want, Turkish Delight. He also gets a
bad treatment from the witch. He is forced to walk with his hand tied and gets a flick every time he slips.
The dwarf obeyed, and in a few minutes Edmund found himself being forced to walk as fast as he could with his hands tied behind him. He kept
on slipping in the slush and the mud and wet grass, and every time he slipped the dwarf gave him a curse and sometimes a flick with the whip.
The Witch walked behind the dwarf and kept on saying, ―Faster Faster‖Lewis, 2007:119-120
His selfishness changes him to be a liar and get a conflict with his siblings. That conflict causes him cannot bring his siblings to the witch as a requirement to
be a King in Narnia. Because Edmund can not bring them, he gets a bad treatment from the White Witch. That situation describes that his selfishness brings him in a
difficult situation and add him problem. Edmund found himself being roughly forced to his feet. Then the dwarf set
him with his back against a tree and bound him fast. ―prepare the victim,‖ said the Witch. And the dwarf undid Edmund‘s
collar and folded back his shirt at the neck. Then he took Edmund‘s hair and pulled his head back so that he had to raise his chin. After that
Edmund heard a strange noise-whizz-whizz-whizz. For a moment he could
n‘t think what it was. Then he realized. It was the sound of knife being sharpened Lewis, 2007: 136.
The difficult situation that he faces is a bad treatment. He finds himself forced to walk as fast as he could with hands tie behind. He also tied on a tree and
his hair is pulled until he raised his chin. The problems that he gets because of his selfishness are the internal and external conflicts. They are the dilemma what he
will say to his siblings about Narnia, the conflict against his siblings because he makes his sister down, and the conflict against the White Witch because he can
not bring his siblings as the requirement. After that moment, Edmund realizes that his characteristic that is selfish
bring him in this situation. His selfishness complicates him to realize his desire. His selfishness that just concerns with his advantage and his own pleasure drive
him becomes greedy, liar, and also traitor. His relationship with his family also gets worse because his selfishness that makes him miserable. He has to face some
conflict against his sibling and the witch and also get a bad treatment from the witch is a misery for him because his selfishness.