4. Dominant
The fourth characteristic of the psychopaths are dominant. Dominant is the personality of the psychopath when they have purpose to exploiting other people.
They are treating others without feeling and also cruel. Psychopaths‟ acts are
generally involving of violence act. Michael Swango was dominant because he wanted to control the death and
life of the patients. He looked terrible with his action to monopolize the other people around him. He was treating his patients without feeling and also cruel.
Michael Swango looked terrible and astonish because he felt satisfied when he killed the patients. He was treating his patients and people around him
without feeling and also cruel. “Why did you kill?” “Well, people controlled me
for 18 years, and then I controlled my own destiny. I controlled other people‟s lives, whether they lived or die. I had that power to control” Stewart, 1986:296.
He had the control of the victim ‟s life when he works as paramedic and
came to the scene of the accident. “In his work as paramedics, when he came to the scene of accidents, and fantasies I which he would arrive on the scene of
disasters and have control over the fate of the victims” Stewart, 1986: 291.
5. Hypocritical
The fifth characteristic of the psychopaths are hypocritical. Hypocritical is the personality of the psychopath when they have the smooth
– talking. Psychopaths look very nice, interesting, and entertaining in their conversation.
Psychopaths are very smart to convince people about the positive things of
themselves. They lie to other people because they want to manipulate, cheating and lead on other people.
Michael Swango lied constantly to cover up his past in order to get a job and to get away with something. He was very smart to convince people to make
them believe that he did not guilty. He was a good liar. He was very smart to make people sure about the positive things on himself. He lied frequently because
he wanted to manipulate the life of other people. He was very adept at exhibiting counterfeit displays of emotion.
Michael Swango falsified his data when enter into college, although he had
been one of the college‟s top applicant. On a form he submitted to the co
llege‟s public information office, he falsely claimed that he had received both a Bronze Star for heroism in
combat, and a Purpple Heart for combat wounds during his relatively brief tenure as a Marine Stewart, 1986:26.
Michael Swango did plagiarism when he made three pages when he was in the college. He just spent ten minutes with the patient to analyze; it was possible
his report was too complete and polished. He manipulated the data on his research. The lecturer felt strange about his report and she visited the patient to
ask about Michael‟s visit. “Stunned, O‟Connor concluded that the entire three page report was either a fabrication, a plagiarism from an earlier H and P by
resident, or combination of the two ” Stewart, 1986:49.
Michael Swango denied that he had failed to examine any patients and denied plagiarizing about the report of H and P when the lecturer called him to the
room. He had no enough time to make the report because he worked as an
emergency medical technician. He said that he had no choice as an emergency medical technician because his father had died earlier that year and he must gave
money to his mother and his two brothers. Psychopath had the smooth talking with other people. He had the smooth talking about the untruth. In fact, his mother
had a well-paid job as business manager at the Casio Lanes bowling alley and received a pension as the widow of military and Foreign Service officer and
helped to pay for Michael‟s school. He cannot graduate with his class and he told to his mother that because of computer mix up, he had in advertently been
dropped from the list of graduates. Louise who was Michael
Swango‟s aunt scanned for Michael Swango‟s name in the Springfiels State Journal Register before the graduation. There was no
Michael Swango‟s name. She looked over the entire list again to make sure, but Michael Swango‟s name was also missing. His mother and aunt still went to
Quincy to see Michael Swango graduate. His mother told to Louise that her son had not graduate with his class after Michael Swango called her when she arrived
at the motel. Michael Swango lied to his mother that he could not graduate because the problem of the computer.
“Just before leaving the motel, about an hour before the graduation, Michael had told her that because of a computer mix-
up, he had in advertently been dropped from the list of graduates” Stewart, 1986:54.
Dr. Carey did ask Michael Swango specifically whether he had done anything to his patient or injection in her that made her turned blue then stopped
breathing and he said no but volunteered a detailed account that differed from his
answer to Dr. Freeman the night before. Michael said that he had gone into his patient room because the patient had told him her feet were cold and asked him to
fetch her slippers. He did so and left immediately without doing anything. He lied because he wanted to cover up his mistake and avoided the punishment.
Michael Swango denied about killing his patients and poisoning his friends in the court. He spent weeks to prepare his own statement.
“I am fully aware that I have been found guilty in a court of a law. And with all due respect to the Court, I wish to state once again that I am
innocent of these charges”. “After graduation from medical school I took the Hippocratic Oath and I have never nor would I ever violate the sacred
trust of the doctor patient relationship… In no way, shape, or form, under no conceivable circumstance and I now, or have I ever been, or will I ever
be, a danger to any human being on the face of this earth” Stewart, 1986:142.
Michael Swango had a girlfriend named Kristin. He had a dinner with
Kristin‟s parents. Her parents asked to the Michael Swango about his life before he met their daughter. He lied about his life before he met their daughter to her
parents. He covered up about the reality that he never killed his patients, never in prison, and never dismissed in South Dakota.
The Coopers growing dislike of Swango only hardened as he talked incessantly, boasting that he had been accepted at two medical residency
programs, and had chosen one in New York. He talked as though he‟d just gotten out of medical school, hadn‟t been in prison, hadn‟t been dismissed
in South Dakota, and had nothing to look forward to but a bright future Stewart, 1986:207.
Michael Swango had a close friend named Lorimer when he moved to work in Africa as missioner. Lorimer was twenty seven years old; he talked about
his background about his family to Michael Swango. Michael Swango also talked about his background of his family but he lied about his age to Lorimer. He lied
about his age to cover up his past life. “For his part, Swango said he, too, was twenty seven years old
in reality, he was now forty” Stewart, 1986: 228. Michael Swango needed a lawyer to clear his name from his crime. He
lied that he had been summarily suspended by the provincial minister of health with unclear reason. He said that he was not guilty about the death of his patients.
“All he knew, he said, was that he was accused of having given some patients injection that caused “ill effect”, and that he was being unfairly blamed for the
death of a few patients who had died of natural causes” Stewart, 1986:245.
6. Cruel
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