Why does tin man need a heart?

Answer 1

So he will have a heart like other men, in order to live and love like other men. In the book The Wizard of Oz, author and Oz series originator Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 5, 1919] presents the Tin Woodman as having started out as the flesh-and-blood son of a woodman. With his parents' deaths, he wishes to marry a beautiful Munchkin girl. But the girl takes care of an old woman who opposes the marriage. So the old woman persuades the Wicked Witch of the East to work some magic against any marriage taking place. The Witch enchants the axe, to cut the Tin Woodman to pieces. So slowly but surely, the Tin Woodman must replace his head, limbs, and trunk with tin until he's all metal. At that point, he believes himself to have fallen out of love with the Munchkin girl, and to have lost all desire for marriage. He doesn't want to live like that. He wants to have a heart, and thereby be able to love and be loved.

Answer 2

In the original novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", the Tin Woodman was originally a flesh-and-blood woodcutter who fell in love with a Munchkin maiden. However, the woman she worked for didn't want her to run off and marry, so she bribed the Wicked Witch of the East to enchant his axe. Gradually, the axe cut off pieces of the woodcutter, but each time he went to his friend, who was a tinsmith, to get the missing part replaced. Eventually, he was all tin. Once he rusted, he decided that he would try to get a new heart so that he could love his sweetheart again.

It took a little while! In the novel "The Tin Woodman of Oz", published eighteen years later, the Tin Woodman (whose name we have since learned is Nick Chopper) decides to go out and find the Munchkin maiden. But as to the result...well, either you'll have to read the book, or ask another question!

Answer 3

Havent you ever read the book?