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THE PSYCHOPATH IN THE STEPHEN KING’S MISERY A THESIS BY ROSA FELESIA DEBORA TARIGAN REG. NO. 120705026 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2018 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA AUTHOR’S DECLARATION I, ROSA FELESIA DEBORA TARIGAN, DECLARE THAT I AM THE SOLE AUTHOR OF THIS THESIS EXCEPT WHERE REFERENCE IS MADE IN THE TEXT OF THIS THESIS. THIS THESIS CONTAINS NO MATERIAL PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE OR EXTRACTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FROM A THESIS BY WHICH I HAVE QUALIFIED FOR OR A WARDED ANOTHER DEGREE. NO OTHER PERSON’S WORK HAS BEEN USED WITHOUT DUE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN THE MAIN TEXT OF THIS THESIS. THIS THESIS HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED FOR THE AWARD OF ANOTHER DEGREE IN ANY TERTIARY EDUCATION. Signed : Date : July 20, 2018 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA COPYRIGHT DECLARATION NAME : ROSA FELSIA DEBORA TARIGAN TITLE OF THESIS : THE PSYCHOPATH IN THE STEPHEN KING’S MISERY QUALIFICATION : S-1/SARJANA SASTRA DEPARTMENT : ENGLISH I AM WILLING THAT MY THESIS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR REPRODUCTION AT THE DISCRETION OF THE LIBRARIAN OF DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT USERS ARE MADE AWARE OF THEIR OBLIGATION UNDER THE LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA. Signed : Date : July 20, 2018 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ACKNOWLEDGMENT Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude to the Almighty, Jesus Christ, mankind’s savior who loves me with His unconditional affection, holds my hand in every situations and blesses me with a great life that I can pass all problems in my life without changing and remove my faith in Him. Secondly, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to those who have given me pray, advice, motivation, and help in accomplishing my thesis. They are : 1. My beloved parents, to whom this thesis is devoted, Rohansah Tarigan and Sabarati Bakara, who always pray for me everytime and for everything. They are such a great motivator, supporter, advisor and my enthuasiasm charger that I can live my life until nowadays and accomplish this thesis. Thank you for your unconditional love, I cannot live without you. 2. My dear sisters Rosaline Grace Tarigan, Ruth Rose Angeline Tarigan, big family of Tarigan-Bakara, specially my aunty ‘Emas’, my uncle ‘Opung Joan’, my big brother Bang Bastian and wife Kak Lena, Bang Chris, my big sister Kak Uli, Evi and Putri who have become my cheeriness and motivation, I do love you all. 3. Dr.Siti Norma Nasution, M.Hum as my supervisor and Dian Marisaha Putri S.S M.Si as co-supervisor who have share their valuable ideas, times, guidance, and patience in process of completing this thesis. 4. Prof. Hj. T. Silvana Sinar, M.A, Ph.D as the head of English Department and Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A., Ph.D the Secretary of English Department and all the lecturers of English Department who have shared many knowledge and experience. 5. Chrisna Ratnawati Pardede, Rayhan Rianda, and Emanuelle Laudia the one and only my second family since we were meet a long time ago, who always support and help me to finish this thesis. They always give their time to support me a lot. 6. Monica, Irvan, Bang Sam, Bang Pandu,become such my family, thanks for the time, the laugh, the crazy moments we spent together, share many things in all the times, all of you are gifts from God. Also for all my friends in English Literature University of Sumatera Utara especially Class B 2012 that I can’t mention name by name, I will never forget you guys, may all us be succesfull in the future. Amin. UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA 7. Winarni A. Zega, Shaira B. Ginting, Valentina Sitepu, Gratia Yogita, Yessy Simanungkalit and Viony J. Sitompul. My sister like my siblings who always support me and pray for me, our friendship still count. 8. All of Kakak Pembina in Junior Chruch specially Kak Rita , Kak Reni, Kak Ebyn, Kak Ramses, Kak Yaman and Kak Roy and my lovely sisters and brothers Frontliner as my second home and always cherish me and support me to finish the thesis. 9. Finally, may this thesis be worthwhile for all of the readers, may the grace and love of God be with us forever. Amin Medan, July 2018 Rosa Felesia Debora Tarigan Reg. No. 120705026 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRACT This thesis entitled The Psychopath in The Stephen King’s Miserydiscusses about an ex-nurse Annie Wilkes and a famous writer Paul Sheldon. Misery establishes characters and conflict immediately, opening with Annie Wilkes’s artificial respiration to revive injured author Paul Sheldon. The analysis use Psychology of literature as a theory to the problem. It was find Annie is a psychopath.Within five very brief chapters, The writer writes that Sheldon has crashed his car in a snowstorm; that Wilkes, a fan of Sheldon’s popular romance novels starring Misery Chastain, has rescued him; and that she is crazy and is imprisoning him in her isolated house rather than taking him to a hospital for proper care.The conclusion of the novel is Annie Wilkes as the leading character of novel Hannibal Rising is figured as a character with psychopathic personality with some certain characteristics. They are superficial charm and good "intelligence; pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love; untruthfulness and insincerity; lack of remorse or shame; poor judgment and failure to learn by experience; suicide threats rarely carried out; and inadequately motivated antisocial behavior. Those characteristics are reflected in Annie Wilkes herself and he can be concluded as psychopath. Keywords : psychopath, famous writer, killer, psychology literature UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRAK Skripsi ini berjudul The Psychopath in The Stephen King's Misery membahas tentang mantan perawat Annie Wilkes dan penulis terkenal Paul Sheldon. Kesengsaraan membangun karakter dan konflik dengan segera, membuka dengan pernafasan buatan Annie Wilkes untuk menghidupkan kembali penulis yang terluka Paul Sheldon. Analisis menggunakan Psikologi sastra sebagai teori untuk masalah. Ternyata Annie adalah seorang psikopat. Dalam lima bab yang sangat singkat, Penulis menulis bahwa Sheldon telah menabrakkan mobilnya dalam badai salju; bahwa Wilkes, penggemar novel roman populer Sheldon yang dibintangi Misery Chastain, telah menyelamatkannya; dan bahwa dia gila dan memenjarakannya di rumah terpencilnya daripada membawanya ke rumah sakit untuk perawatan yang tepat. Kesimpulan dari novel ini adalah Annie Wilkes sebagai tokoh utama novel Hannibal Rising digambarkan sebagai karakter dengan kepribadian psikopat dengan beberapa karakteristik tertentu. Mereka adalah pesona yang dangkal dan kecerdasan yang baik, egosentrisitas patologis dan ketidakmampuan untuk cinta, ketidakbenaran dan ketidaktulusan, kurangnya penyesalan atau rasa malu, penilaian yang buruk dan kegagalan untuk belajar melalui pengalaman, ancaman bunuh diri jarang dilakukan, dan perilaku antisosial yang tidak termotivasi secara memadai. tercermin dalam Annie Wilkes dirinya dan dia dapat disimpulkan sebagai psikopat. Kata kunci : psikopat, penulis terkenal, pembunuh, psikologi sastra UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA TABLE OF CONTENTS Page AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ................................................................................ v COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ........................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGMENT ....................................................................................... vii ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................. ix ABSTRAK ................................................................................................................ x TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................ xi CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study ........................................................... 1 1.2 Problem of the Study ................................................................. 5 1.3 Objective of the Study ............................................................... 5 1.4 Scope of the Study .................................................................... 5 1.5 Significance of the Study .......................................................... 6 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Psychology and Literature ........................................................ 7 2.2 Characters ................................................................................ 10 2.3 Psychopath .............................................................................. 13 2.4 Historical Background of Stephen King ................................ 17 CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH 3.1 Research Design ...................................................................... 19 3.2 Data Collection........................................................................ 21 3.3 Data Analysis .......................................................................... 22 CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDING 4.1 Annie Wilkes’ Characterictics of Psychopath......................... 23 4.2 The Cause Annie Wilkes’ Psychopathics Personality ............ 28 4.3 The Impact Annie Wilkes’ Psychopathics Personality to Paul 33 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusions ............................................................................. 37 5.2 Suggestions ............................................................................. 38 REFERENCES ......................................................................................................