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The Sadism of Jame Gumb in Thomas Harris' Novel the Silence of the Lambs The Sadism of Jame Gumb in Thomas Harris’ Novel The Silence of The Lambs Nina Nova Anggraini Universitas Gunadarma Jalan Margonda Raya No. 100 ABSTRACT The backgrounds in this research for analyze is what are the causes main character perform in sadism. The aims of the study in this research, are to describe factors trigger Jame Gumb in performing sadism and to describe how Jame Gumb triggers sadism. The data in this research is taken from a novel. It is in the form of utterances and clauses reflecting the sadism of Jame Gumb. In analyzing the sadism that appear in the novel, the writer used descriptive qualitative method. The results of this study shown that Jame Gumb performed sadism because the background of life, he has a bad childhood, his mother is an alcoholic prostitute and his mother never gives attention, love and caring to him and he has killed and flayed at least eleven women, one of them is the first victim Klaus, who scalped and inserted pupa in her throat. Keywords: Jame Gumb, Sadism, Psychological Approach, Personality Disorder, The Silence of the Lambs. 1. INTRODUCTION The Silence of the Lambs is Clarice Starling. Starling must author Thomas Harris' third book, walk a delicate line in negotiating and the second in a trilogy of with the slippery Lecter, hoping to books devoted to the FBI's hunt for obtain his help in catching another serial killers. Since the advent of serial killer, nicknamed "Buffalo FBI criminal profiling, Harris' Bill," because he skins his female works are among the most popular victims. works of fiction dedicated to this Starling is plucked out of the subject. The Silence of the FBI Academy by her mentor, Jack Lambs is Harris' most famous work, Crawford, to track down Buffalo and has also been turned into a Bill before he kills again. The blockbuster movie starring Anthony novel takes Clarice on a journey Hopkins as serial killer, Dr. from Lecter's dank cell in the Hannibal Lecter. In this book, Lec- bowels of the Baltimore State Hos- ter's character is the antagonist pital for the Criminally Insane to to the main character, FBI trainee the slab where Buffalo Bill's la- 144 Anggraini, The Sadism of… test body lies. The pressure inten- fined as a type of personality dis- sifies when Bill kidnaps the daugh- order in which an affected indivi- ter of U.S. Senator Ruth Martin. As dual inflicts sadistic, cruel, ma- the only female assigned to the nipulative, aggressive and de- investigation, Starling is able to meaning behavior on others. use her feminine perspective to understand Bill's victims, and how Sadistic Personality Disorder he selects them. However, each day Classification she spends on his trail puts Star- ling in greater danger of being a. Enforcing Sadist flunked out of the academy, and not This category of sadistic peo- even Crawford can prevent this from ple can often be found within im- happening. In the end, Starling ri- portant positions of authority, ses to the occasion, and the green such as military sergeants, police trainee single-handedly tracks down officers, prison overseers and Buffalo Bill. She must then descend deans of universities. These indi- into the horrifying basement dunge- viduals are in a situation where on, where he traps his victims, to they feel that they are the ones save Catherine Martin. who should be in charge of contro- lling, overseeing and punishing Every analysis needs limita- people for breaking laws, rules and tion in order to make the analysis regulations. does not go far from the topic of b. Explosive Sadist discussion and make the analysis People having this form of focus to what being discussed. My sadistic personality are known to research is going to be focused on be unpredictably violent as they the sadism of Jame Gumb nicknamed are disappointed or frustrated with "Buffalo Bill in the novel The Si- their general lives. They lose con- lence of The Lambs using psycho- trol when they feel humiliated logical analysis. and/or hopeless and seek retribu- tion for the deprecation and mis- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW treatment to which they sense they have been subjected to. According to (Kennedy ,1991) c. Tyrannical Sadist novel is a book length story in This type of sadistic persona- prose, who’s the authors try to lity is counted among the more create the sense that while read, cruel and frightening of all sub- we experience actual life. types as they seem to really relish According to Worchel and She- their acts of brutalizing and me- bilske (1995:3) Psychology, Princi- nacing others. It appears that for- ples and Application. “Psychology cing their unwilling victims to is the scientific study of behavior submit and cower provides them with and applications gained from that some special feeling of satis- knowledge. ”According to Birch and faction. Wade-ley, “A psychological approach en-deavors to work towards an d. Spineless Sadist under-standing and explanations of This type of sadist is com- the biological basis of behavior. pletely opposite of other three According to Richard von types, as they are extremely inse- Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), he was cure and behave like cowards. These introduced the terms to psychiatry people anticipate real danger, pro- in the 19th century. He was ex- ject their hostile ideas and strike plained sadism in deviant sexual first, thereby hoping to forestall actions and someone feels satisfied the antagonist and put forth ques- after do something. Sadistic perso- tions later. nality disorder (SPD) can be de- Journal Of Language And Literature Vol 3 No. 2 Desember 2015 145 Sadistic Personality Disorder (2006:155) descriptive qualitative Causes is a method to analyze, describe, There are no definite, clear and summarize the various condi- causes for people developing SPD. tions, situations and various data Some theories indicate that the way collected in the form of result or a person is brought up plays a observations, interview or studied major role in deciding if one is problem that occur in the field. going to develop a sadistic per- The data in this novel are sonality or not. utterances and clauses reflecting Sadistic Personality Disorder the sadism performed by Thomas Symptoms Harris in a novel The Silence of the Lambs. As the source of data, A person is said to have SPD the writer used The Silence of the when he or she displays certain Lambs novel as the main data. This behavioral patterns: novel written by Thomas Harris. a. A sadistic individual does not Source of the data in this research hesitate to humiliate people is a novel. Entitled The Silence of intentionally in presence of the Lambs. It consist of 185 pages. others. It was published in 1988 years. b. He considers all people to be The techniques that writer under his control, no matter uses to collect data in this re- whether the other individual is search is the collection of quali- a student, child, prisoner or tative data by doing reading the patient, and treats them in an The Silence of the Lambs, it can unkind and harsh manner make the readers to understands the c. A sadistic individual finds story and the main character per- pleasure in causing pain to sonality, thoroughly while identi- other people or harming them by fying the psychological factors lying without any apparent which influencing the main charac- reason or without any motive to ter by underlining. achieve any other goal. Making notes of the sentence d. Unlike a normal person, a sa- from what the character does or distic individual frightens and says on the sadism in sadistic per- terrorizes others for getting sonality disorder influencing the his job done. main character. e. He often puts restriction on the freedom of other people 4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION within a close relationship. f. A sadistic individual gets The Silence of the Lambs Synopsis highly enthralled by all forms The Silence of the Lambs is a of violence, martial arts, wea- novel by Thomas Harris. First pub- pons, injuries, torture or lished in 1988, it is the sequel to death. Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon. Both g. He does not falter from making novels feature the cannibalistic use of violence or cruelty for serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, establishing his dominance in this time pitted against FBI Spe- any form of relationship. cial Agent Clarice Starling. Its film adaptation directed by Jona- 3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY than Demme was released in 1991 to box office success and critical acclaim. The method used in this re- search is descriptive qualitative method. According to Wirartha 146 Anggraini, The Sadism of… The Causes of Jame Gumb in The way Jame Gumb Performing in Performing Sadims Sadism The Childhood of Jame Gumb a. Jame Gumb do is choosing women Jame Gumb was born in Cali- with big bodies and kidnaps fornia in 1948, and was abandoned them to become his victims. He at birth by his mother. His mother then keeps them alive for a was an alcoholic prostitute, who week or just long enough for had named him James, but upon them to feel pain. signing his birth certificate in- "Now dry off and rub the cream correctly, spelled the name Jame, all over. Rub it all over." The and was left unchanged. cream was warm from the bath water. Its moisture made the jumpsuit “His mother had been carrying stick to her skin. "Now pick up him a month when she failed to your litter and wash the floor." place in the Miss Sacramento Con- She did that too, gathering the test in 1948.
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