Why did Pinocchio want to be a real boy?

Question

Wasnt being wood and numb better? No pain. no emotions, no heartaches..

Answer 1

So He Can Masterbate Without Getting Splinters! Also, He was tired of hearing his girlfriend complaining about the splinters in her tongue. She just couldn't keep it in her teeth! haha Or he was tired of only being attracted to bushes!

Answer 2

if you read the original version of the story by Italian author Carlo Collodi, you will find the true answer to your question:

" Pinocchio, alive in the beginning of the book, has to learn how to be generous through hard lessons. His feet are burned off, he is chained, and he is even hanged. "...I am a heedless Marionette--heedless and heartless," Pinocchio says. "Oh! If I had only had a bit of heart..." Eventually Pinocchio ceases to be a Marionette and becomes a boy. The lesson is that "Boys who love and take good care of their parents when they are old and sick, deserve praise even though they may not be held up as models of obedience and good behavior."

Answer 3

why do young men want to be grown-up men? because it's in the nature of things for this growing-up to happen, and you need to let it be. being wood and numb? and maybe living forever? what's human about that? Pinocchio, in my opinion, was in many ways similar to modern time people. he had a human soul in a non-human body. pretty much what we are doing nowadays. hiding our true feelings and needs behind thick curtains of social convenience and always playing by the rules, trying so hard to be what others expect us to be that, in the end, we find ourselves trapped in a virtual body of appearences. if you were trapped in a body that meant nothing to you, if you felt yourself to be "fake", wouldn't you wish you could go back to your initial state, to genuinely being yourself? like a real boy....

Answer 4

he wanted to feel love and other emotions. when he went to school he wanted to be normal and he wanted to feel. Pinocchio wanted to be more than wood.

Answer 5

So that he could be independent and think for himself.

His main problem was that people could take control of him and mislead him so easily, like a puppet.

When he had to explain how he was mislead, and unable to think for himself, he would lie; causing his nose to grow.

Only when he made the independent choice to save Geppeto from the whale, did he pass his test.

"I've got no strings, to hold me down..."

Answer 6

Why does Cmdr. Data from Star Trek:TNG want to be human?

There seems to be some "advantage" to being human, but I can't find it.

Answer 7

So nose wouldnt grow

Answer 8

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence...

-Dio

Answer 9

he wanted to feel love and emotions i could have told him emotions are very overrated

Answer 10

So his nose didn't grow everytime he denied touching himself.