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"Winnie-the-pooh" as the reflection of children's psychology
Yulduz SATTOROVA1
Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature
ARTICLE INFO
ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received April 2021 Received in revised form 20 April 2021 Accepted 15 May 2021 Available online 25 June 2021
Keywords:
psychology,
animals,
extrovert,
introvert,
sanguine,
phlegmatic,
choleric and melancholy.
At a time when teaching English has become one of the current topics, we must first of all aim to teach English to the young generation with English literature. In this regard, it is worthwhile to learn the peculiarities of children's literature. A piece of children's literature given in the article a collection of stories called "The Winnie the Pooh and all, all, all" also refers to subtleties of children's psychology.
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"Vinni pux" bolalar psixologiyasini aks ettirishi sifatida
ANNOTATSIYA
Kalit so'zlar:
psixologiya,
hayvonlar,
ekstravert,
introvert,
sangvinik,
flegmatik,
xolerik va melanxolik.
Ingliz tilini o'qitish hozirgi kunda dolzarb mavzulardan biriga aylangan bir vaqtda, biz avvalombor ingliz tilini yosh avlodga uning adabiyoti bilan o'rgatishni o'z oldimizga maqsad qilib qo'yishimiz kerak. Bu borada bolalar adabiyotining o'ziga xos xususiyatlarini bilib olish maqsadga muvofiq. Maqolada berilgan bolalar adabiyotining bir parchasi: "Vinni Puh sarguzashtlari" deb nomlangan hikoyalar to'plami ham aynan bolalar psixologiyasining nozik ekanligini isbotlovchi asar haqida so'z yuritiladi.
1 lecturer, Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. E-mail: yulduzsattorova@gmail.com.
«Винни-пух» как отражение детской психологии
АННОТАЦИЯ_
В то время, когда преподавание английского языка стало одной из актуальных тем, мы должны, прежде всего, стремиться обучать молодое поколение английскому языку с его литературой. В связи с этим стоит изучить особенности детской литературы. Фрагмент детской литературы, приведенный в статье сборник рассказов «Приключения Винни-Пуха» также относится к произведению, доказывающему тонкости детской психологии.
"... Piglet in this way gets more education than Pooh, but he doesn't mind. Some have brains, some haven't he says, and there it is".
(A.A. Milne)
Few people know that the most famous Winnie-the-Pooh was created by humorist writer of the twentieth century Alan Alexander Milne. The collection of stories "Winnie-the-Pooh" by Alan Alexander Milne is the only work which we can call famous among young readers of our time.
Alan Alexander Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books. Originally the name of Pooh was derived from a swan called "Pooh". Author gives a brief introduction to this name in his book that when he asked his son to give original name to his bear, he, without any time for thoughts said "Pooh"; therefore Winnie was taken from a black Canadian bear Winniepeg, a mascot during the World War II, which was left later to London Zoo. Other characters, such as bouncy Tiger and gloomy donkey Eeyore were also Christopher Robin Milne's own toys. The magnificent forest of Pooh was copied from real Ashdown Forest where A.A. Milne took his little son Christopher robin walking. Later adult Christopher Robin commented: "Pooh's forest and Ashdown forest are identical". Now, tourist can enjoy the wooden Pooh Bridge in Ashdown Forest.
Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. They quickly became popular among readers which left unnoticed Milne's other serious works. His book "World of Pooh" won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.
The children's ingenious psychology was fully and simply characterized by Forest Animals as it had been kept characterizing any children's literature through animals and their hilarious performance. This article focuses on typology of different characters used in Alan Alexander Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and distinguishes psychological features of the most famous children's characters analysing it as well as criticising using psychological and descriptive approaches. As far as we know children's literature is based on the psychology of children and mostly analysed by using different methods of psychology. Before we go deeply to analysis on the piece of children's literature, the useful terms and phrases should be considered. Psychology is a scientific study of the way how the human mind works and how it influences on the character or behaviour of the person. [1. Peter Childs, (edited by Roger Fowler) "The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms". Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006-191] Psychology studies the mind of the children and its influence
Ключевые слова:
психология,
животные,
экстраверт,
интроверт,
сангвиник,
флегматик,
холерик и меланхолик.
on the children's behaviour. However, psychology deals with the motives, which push the person to go forward. Also, it looks at the culture as informative of our psyche, therefore, it deals with many basic elements of which we might think of as poetic or literary, including metaphor or metonymy. Let's go back to analysis of characters in A.A. Milne's book "Winnie-the-Pooh". As psychology scholars suggest, there are 4 main types of human characters: sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholy. They are divided into main groups: Extrovert and introvert and respectively into optimist and pessimist groups. Latter ones include particularly choleric and melancholy types. Sanguine people are optimistic, intuitive, energetic and curious. They tend to know everything and always inspires people around and try to be always in the centre of the stage. They can be trustworthy friends as they are the best storytellers, they always look for adventures, naive as child and never grow up. For this type is the best appropriate character Piglet, the smallest animal of Pooh books. Piglet is real sanguine personality as in the beginning of the book she asks the author:
"I had written as far as this when Piglet looked up and said in his squeaky voice, "What about Me?". "My dear Piglet", I said, "the whole book is about you". "So it is about Pooh", he squeaked..." [2. A.A. Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All" 1969-4].
Piglet got jealous thinking that the whole book is about Pooh, of course Pooh is
favourite but Piglet can be there where Pooh misses. The another factor which proves his sanguine personality is that he is always optimistic and can apologize in front of his friends:
"Oh, dear!" said Piglet. "Oh, dear, oh, dearie, dearie, dear! Well, it's too late now. I can't go back, and I haven't another balloon, and perhaps Eeyore doesn't like balloons very much".
[3. A.A. Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All" 1969-28].
Being very disappointed with the blown-up balloon he tries to apologize for not bringing his present:
"... Yes, but I'm afraid - I'm very sorry, Eeyore - but when I was running along to bring it you, I fell down. No, but I - I - oh, Eeyore, I burst the balloon!" [4. A.A. Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All" 1969-28].
Piglet is very energetic and spends all his energy to his friends; he cares about them all, however, we can also notice some of phlegmatic and melancholy traits in his behaviour. He is quite than sanguine and thinks about other which is a bit unusual for them. As an example:
"It's a little Anxious", he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher Robin and Pooh could escape by Climbing Trees, and Kanga could escape by Jumping, and Rabbit could escape by Burrowing, and Owl could escape by Flying, and Eeyore could escape by - by Making a Loud Noise Until Rescued, and here am I, surrounded by water and I can't do anything". [5. A.A. Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All" 1969-43].
The next type is a choleric personality which is also extroverted and optimist, thus a bit aggressive and quick-tempered. They are bossy, goal oriented and never give up when they lose. Also they are quick in decisions, think they know everything, although they are always right may be unpopular among friends [6. Lightning Rod "Temperaments Theory as explained by Winnie-the-Pooh Characters" London 2014-6]. For this type of personality, the Rabbit is perfect
example. He always tries to show how clever he is or only him and Owl own brains, of course after Christopher Robin, he trusts only his humble calculations although they were wrong, and never listens to other because he is so stubborn:
"The best way", said Rabbit, "would be this. The best way would be to steal Baby Roo and hide
him, and then when Kanga says, 'Where's Baby Roo?' we say, 'Aha!' - "Aha!" said Pooh,
practising. - "Pooh", said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain". - "I know", said Pooh humbly. [7. A.A. Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All" 1969-31].
As Rabbit is usually right, he tries to show his dominance over his friends even.
Christopher Robin, when he asks the way to north pole, on his turn Rabbit tries not to show his inability to answer:
- "Well", said Rabbit, stroking his whiskers. "Now you're asking me". - "I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten", said Christopher Robin carelessly. - "It's a funny thing", said Rabbit, "but I've sort of forgotten too, although I did know once". [8. A.A. Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All" 1969-40].
Choleric personalities are born leaders; despite his unpopular brain Rabbit is leader and sets goals clearly. [9. Lightning Rod "Temperaments Theory as explained by Winnie-the-Pooh Characters" London 2014-4] In the Chapter 7 where all three friends try to capture Baby Roo, the Rabbit comes with perfect plan of it, however, the last part of plan does not work, Rabbit remains himself as the leader for group organisation.
Melancholy is the next type of personalities and they belong to pessimist and introvert groups. Their bright feature is they are born under the pressure of art, therefore, it can be seen that they are mostly poetic, artistic, talented people. [10. Lightning Rod "Temperaments Theory as explained by Winnie-the-Pooh Characters" London 2014-5] As they are faithful and ready to share other's problems this type perfectly resembles the grey donkey Eeyore. The pessimistic and sorrowful Eeyore always expects the worst to happen; has always moody and sad mood, sees himself in low image, and always contradicts himself with sceptical and critical opinions:
"Many happy returns of the day", called out Pooh, forgetting that he had said it already. "Thank you, Pooh, I'm having them", said Eeyore gloomily. "I've brought you a little present", said Pooh excitedly. "I've had it"', said Eeyore sadly. [11. A.A. Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All" 1969-39].
Being very anxious and pessimist he thinks all his unhappiness is the result of someone else's:
"That accounts for a Good Deal", said Eeyore gloomily. "It explains Everything. No Wonder".
- "You must have left it somewhere", said Winnie-the-Pooh. "Somebody must have taken it"', said Eeyore. [12. A.A. Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All" 1969-16].
Peaceful, agreeable, sympathetic, easy-going and relaxed; whom can these adjectives belong to? No doubt all of them belong to our Silly bear, how he is called by Christopher Robin, The Pooh. There is no denying that he is pleasant to be around, that is what makes him lovable bear. In fact, all phlegmatic people are all alike: they are expert of steady and relaxed life, they know how to say and what to say and when; they always find easy way to their problems or they pretend they do not have them at all. As they are good listeners they have a lot of friends around, however, not always faithful to them. At work
they can be very lazy but they can always prove themselves with calmness. As it comes to Pooh he never gets upset easily. What is wonderful is that, he can see good things through bad situations, especially when he is stuck in Rabbit's hole:
- "Hallo, are you stuck?" he asked.
- "N- no", said Pooh carelessly. "Just resting and thinking and humming to myself".
- "The fact is", said Rabbit, "You're stuck".
- "It all comes", said Pooh crossly, "of not having front doors big enough".
[13. A.A. Milne "Winnie-the-Pooh and All, All, All" 1969-40].
Yet Pooh is loved by all animals in One Hundred Acre Forest, he lets other strong personalities or circumstances lead him.
As a conclusion, we would like to say the above discussion was made with the help of psychological and descriptive approaches, however, to analyse this work critically the Biographical method could be used. The author tried to show us wonderful world of children through very carefully described animal characters, although, they portray children's psychology, in the deep meaning they resemble adults who remain a bit of childish behaviour in deep of their souls.
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