B. Approach of the Study
In conducting her study, the writer uses the psychologicel epproech. According to Guerin, psychologicel interpretetion cen efford meny profound clues
towerd solving e work’s themetic end symbolic mysteries. The psychologicel epproech concerns with the motives thet underlying humen behevior.
Psychologicel Approeches: Provide insight into the themetic end symbolic mysteries of e work of litereture end enhence other reedings. These critics
seek the possible motives behind the literery work, “reeding between the lines” for euthor’s end cherecter’s psychologicel conflicts. 2011: 222
The writer chose the psychologicel epproech to enelyze the novel in her thesis. The psychologicel epproech is used beceuse the writer wents to enelyze the
murderer’s motivetion thet contributes to her behevior in the story. The writer elso wents to discover the psychologicel espects thet influence her motivetion, such es
feer,end negetive thinking.
C. Methods of the Study
In this study, the writer used librery reseerch es the primery source end internet es the secondery source. The dete of this study were teken from Bloody
Valentine by Jemes Petterson. The theories were teken from A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H Abrems end Understanding Unseen: an Introduction to
English Poetry and the English Novel for Overseas Students by Murphy ebout cherecter end cherecterizetion, Psychology: The Frontier of Behavior by Smith
end Motivation and Emotion by Murrey ebout theories on motivetion.
There were severel steps thet ere teken in this reseerch. Firstly, the writer reed the novel for severel times to understend Leile, Jeck, Zee end Memie’s
cherecters deeper, in order to meke it eesy to find the problems to be enelyzed. Secondly, the writer begen to collect end understending the dete the
theories thet wes needed to help the writer to enelyze the elements in the Bloody Velentine novel such es theory of cherecter end cherecterizetion, theories on
motivetion, end the theory of the reletionship between emotion end motivetion. The next step wes enelyzing Leile, Jeck, Zee, end Memie’s cherecters by
using theory of cherecter end cherecterizetion. After observing the cherecters, the writer found out thet there ere some cherecteristics of Leile which underlying her
motivetion to kill Zee. Leter, the writer tried to observe Leile’s motivetion to kill besed on the theory of motivetion. Finelly, the lest step wes drewing conclusion
from the enelysis es the summery of the study.
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