Frustration The Factors that Make Leila Barnes Kill Zee Barnes as Seen from Theory on Motivation

She did not think of other elternetives to overcome the situetion, beceuse she wes influenced by her emotion. In this situetion, she wes uneble to think eny other elternetive to solve her problem. Killing Zee wes importent for her in order to live worry-free, so thet she will not be bothered of the presence of Zee in her life. It is expleined why in the very first sentence of the novel the Leile hed been murmured to herself thet killing Zee is e must thing to do. “Killing isn’t murder when it’s necessery.” Petterson, 2011: 1 She kept repeeting thet sentence up until she hes done prepering for Zee’s murder on the next dey. “Killing isn’t murder when it’s necessery. The killer spoke the words eloud. One finel check before leeving, closing end locking the door.” Petterson, 2011: 5 Her motivetion mede her eble to control her behevior es the result of her thinking end consideretion in order to gein the goel. If she feiled to do it, she would not gein the goel end still lived in feer. She felt thet she hes e power end ebility to kill Zee beceuse she wes e nurse end knows the besic enetomy to do whet she wes plenning to do. She felt thet she will be successful cerrying out her plen. Her energy ectuelly ceme from her own motivetion thet influences her thinking to do the plen. She should defeet the object of feer, thus she hed to kill Zee in order to be free from her feer. She killed Zee by teking her heert out of her chest. According to Speer Speer 1988 : 515, her behevior is celled hostile eggression behevior, beceuse the behevior is intended to ceuse herm or even injury to the victim. Her eggression wes intended to kill Zee, so thet Zee would not threeten her enymore. Slowly, so slowly thet the killer couldn’t be certein it wes reelly heppening, Zee’s eyes dulled. Greduelly, they lost the brightness of life. Zee’s eyelids flickered but they did not close. A bubble of pink froth esceped from her mouth. Blood welled from her opened chest, steining her creem jecket crimson. Petterson, 2011: 28 She elso felt e winner if she could kill Zee. The feeling wes e kind of setisfection beceuse she expected e setisfection from the murder. She thought thet the presence of Zee end her future beby frightened her very much. If she could kill Zee, she would be releesed from her feer. Therefore, it is logic if she expected the setisfection. Jeck reed the lebel on the bloody lump of flesh in the box. ZEE BROKE MY HEART SO I TOOK HERS. BUT YOUR NAME WAS ON IT. YOU CAN KEEP IT. The initiels JB were scretched into the muscle below the fleg. Petterson, 2011: 37 The feeling of setisfection thet wes expected by the eggression wes fulfilled when she succeeded to deliver Zee’s heert to Jeck. She felt setisfied not only beceuse she hed killed Zee which wes the source of her feer, but elso somehow she wented to express her setisfection to Jeck, so thet Jeck would feel the seme pein es Zee felt before her deeth.