In Ephraim Rosen’s book, abnormal psychology second edition explained that the causes of sociopath are the genetic factor and environment. A child that
lives in a family that one of his or her parents has a tendency of mental illness is easier to get this disorder. But a sociopath can be also born into a normal and
loving family. They are also the products of parental neglect, fatherless homes, and illegitimacy. The father absence produces many consequences to the
symptoms of sociopath. However, a large number of delinquents and sociopaths do not come from institutions or broken homes but from homes that are physically
intact but emotionally disturbed
5
. At a deeper level, overindulgence may be a manifestation by a parent who does not care enough to control the child, or a
reaction formation to ward off the guilt that would be aroused by conscious recognition of hostility and feelings of rejection toward the child
6
.
B. Character and Characterization. 1 The definitions of character and characterization
Characterization is the process that the director reveals personality of a character. Character can be defined as people created by a playwright, and
imagined by the audiences. They must fiction and non-fiction. The characters usually presented by description and through their actions; speech, and thoughts.
5
Ephraim Rosen, Ronald E. Fox, et al., Abnormal Psychology Second Edition, Philadelphia, London, and Toronto: W. B. Saunders Company, 1972, p. 265
6
Ibid.
A well-developed character is one that has been thoroughly characterized, with many traits shown in the narrative
7
. Character development is very important in character-driven literature, where stories focus not on events, but on individual
personalities
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. There are some characters that viewed from the role aspect and the
importance level of a characters in a story, they are:
a. Major characters
Round character is a character with complex and many-sided moral qualities and personal traits. Round characters can be classified into two kinds of
characters, protagonist and antagonist. Protagonist is the central character in the story, whereas, antagonist is the force in the story that is a conflict with
protagonist.
b. Minor characters
A flat character is a minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story
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. Flat character has only one or two distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits. The characters
play a supporting role to the major or main character that, as a rule should be round.
7
Wikipedia, Characterisation. Accessed on July 25, 2007. http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiCharacterisation. p. 1
8
Ibid
9
Ginny Wiehardt, flat character. Accessed on January 21, 2009. http:fictionwriting.about.comodglossary9flatcharacters.htm. p. 1
CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDING
A. Data Description
