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4.2.2. Selfishnes

Selfishness is person’s attitude that caring to much for himself and too little for others. A selfish person puts his own interest first and shows care solely or chiefly for one self. Selfishness denotes an excessive or exclusive concern with oneself, and as such it exceeds mere self interest or self concern. It also harms other people which commonly lead to the action of revenge and other similar immoral actions. Based on the story in The Sands of Time, Lucia jus cares about her interest and does not considers others. “They passed fields with sheep and goats. By sunrise they has covered several miles and found themselves in a wooded area outside the small village of Villacastin.” “ I’ll leave them here, Lucia decided. Their God can take care of them now. He sure took great care of me, she thought bitterly. Switzerland is farther away than ever. I have no money and no passport, and I dressed like an undertaker. By now those man know we’ve escaped. They’ll keep looking until they find us. The sooner I get away by myself, the better.” Sidney Sheldon : 63. From quotes above, we can see that Lucia have selfish character,. She prefer to save herself first and leave her friends. “..The sooner I get away by myself, the better.” Lucia She could do that eventhough thaey have been together and escape from monastery. . “They passed fields with sheep and goats. By sunrise they has covered several miles and found themselves in a wooded area outside the small village of Villacastin.” From the quote we can see that they have been pass a long and far miles journey even until the sunset they keep still have trip in many obstacles. It is irrational because how come someone who has been together with her friends for a Universitas Sumatera Utara 36 long time even just s ave herself and leave her friends behind. But this is Lucia’s character that has selfishness and never think about others. Quotes bellow is also one of proves that bad character of Lucia is selfishness. “Lucia had no idea how the cross had gotten there, nor did she care. She finally had it in her hands. All she had to do now was to slip away from the others. She creep out of the sleeping bad and looked over to where sister Teresa had slept. She was gone. Lucia looked around in the darkness, and she could barely make out the figure of Thomas Sanjuro at the edge of the clearing, facing away from her, She was not sure where Robio was. It doesn’t matter.” Sidney Sheldon : 307. Lucia felt that she has had what she wanted, that she gets a gold cross. When she gets the cross, the first thing she want to do is escape far away and leave her friend without thinks about the impact of her action... She finally had it in her hands. All she had to do now was to slip away from the others. This is one proof the nature of Lucia’s badness that she is selfish one. Universitas Sumatera Utara 37

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

5.1 CONCLUSION

After reading and making the study on the morality in Sidney Sheldon’s The Sa nds of time , the writer comes to the conclusions that the novel maintain the remaining piece of appreciating morality as guiding block of people’s deed. Whether or not, morality is the persons or characters’s way of living to rise the good values inherents in norms. The wright and wrong conduct in those main characters is certain of some rules in an individual as social living. The people judge their attitude through their interaction to one another and the reason of the characters do the conduct. Based on the Theory of Kant, the categorical imperative, James mario rightness is courage and care. The courage is right conduct because Jaime Mario keep fighting to help his people, He had spirit to keep fighting their right as human and giving peaces to the Basque’s life. The second rightness of Jaime Mario is care, it is right because Jaime mario loves his friends and the Basque’s without hopes the feedback. He just wants his friends live in peace and minimize the problems when his friends in trouble. Besides of Jaime Mario, the other character is Lucia Chermine, Lucia has bad character, that is Selfishness and murder. The selfish character is wrong because she always think herself without considers others, she does not care about the effect of her conduct but only her interest. The next is murder, it is wrong conduct because she kill another becauseof she wants the victim suffer, she arranges Universitas Sumatera Utara