ANALYSIS OF SELF-CONTRADICTIONARYCHARACTERS 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 don’t lack them at all, and what they really need is actually sufficent self-confidence and right self-recognition. T hose 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 children's novel written by 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 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 humanvirtues 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.1.1The 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 City"and 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 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 them—but only if one of them kills the WickedWitch 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 to destroy the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.At the castle, when the Wicked Witch gains one of Dorothy's 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 Scarecrow's 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 Glinda’s 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 Glinda's 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 Glinda's 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。