30 not give the ransom to save neither Mitch nor Holly. Mitch surprises knowing the
fact that Anson has trapped him. Holly is being kidnapped because of Anson. Anson also tries to trap
Mitch. He kills his parents by using Mitch’s gardening tools, so that the police think that Mitch is the person who plans this criminality. His ambition makes him
do such kind of criminality. He traps his own brother just to prove that he is the hardest and strongest. Anson can deceive many people for a long time. Anson
who has been believed as a kind, successful, and low profile person is not more than a bad guy who brings the heart to kill the parents to take revenge for bad
treatment in his childhood. Anson, Mitch and three sisters, Connie, Megan and Portia have had an
unusual upbringing. Anson has been brought up to be self-sufficient, depended on no deity and does not have moral code. Daniel and Katherine Rafferty use
learning room to educate their children. They make their children to follow their expectation and inhibit children freedom. This kind of rearing child is the kind of
psychological abuse and this study focuses on the influence of parents’ abuse on Anson’s personality development.
B. Approach of the Study
This study focuses on three parts. Those are character, parents’ abuse, and personality development. This study needs an approach, which explores them.
Therefore, psychological approach is needed because all of them are part of psychological studies. Psychoanalytic theory also concerns with the way in which
31 personality develops. The approach used in this study is psychological approach,
proposed by Rohrberger and Woods, Jr 13-15. Using the psychological approach means that the writer used the psychological theories to analyze the work of
literature. Literature and psychology
have close relationship. The problems in the literary work are usually the reflection of human life and some of human’s
problems can be identified by using theory of psychology. Therefore, this study is
using psychoanalysis to analyze Anson’s personality.
C. Method of the Study
This study was conducted by applying library study. The primary data of this study is The Husband, written by Dean Koontz 2006. There were also some
secondary sources. Those were some other sources to support the primary data. The secondary sources were obtained from the books related to the character,
child abuse, and personality. Some of the books were taken from Abcarian’s Literature Reading and
Writing The Human Experience Seventh Edition, Abram’s Glossary of Literary Terms, Murphy’s Understanding Unseens: An Introduction to English Poetry and
English Novel for Overseas Students. Hurlock’s Child Development, Crosson’s Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect, and Pritchard’s The Child Abusers
Research and Controversy. The writer also used Reading and Writing About Literature which was related to the psychology and psychoanalysis proposed by
Rohrberger and wood Jr. The secondary sources were not only taken from the
32 books, but it was also taken from internet. It was used to complete the information
related to the study. There were some steps in analyzing this novel. The first step to start this
study was reading for several times to gain better understanding of the content of the story, in order to get some ideas to choose the topic for the study. After getting
the proper idea, the second step was determining the problem formulation, which was appropriate, related to the topic and then consulting it with the sponsor. After
choosing and deciding the topic and problem formulation, the third step was trying to find out the literature books, internet sources, and some theories which
related to the study. The fourth step was determining the approach which would be used to
analyze the data. In this study, psychological approach was chosen as the basic approach. Fifth step was applying the theories and analyzing the data in order to
find out the answer of the problems formulation. The last step was reporting the result and giving conclusion so that it would be useful for the future researchers.
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