No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired, in Ohio, Illinois, New York, and South Dakota, he
at first seemed like the ideal doctor. His patients began dying under suspicious circumstances. The workers in hospital and the police could not prove it even
though he did murder with poison. A young and handsome doctor named Michael Swango was convicted of
poisoning five co-workers in Illinois at 1985. Michael Swango was in prison to five years, but was paroled in 1987 and able to continue killing. Michael Swango
practiced in the hospital of Zimbabwe Africa after there were no hospitals in the United States that would hired him. There were still victims in the hospital of
Zimbabwe, Africa. He has been involved as a doctor during fifteen years.
B. Approach of the study
The writer applies psychoanalysis approach to answer the problem in this study. Psychoanalysis criticism is
used in order to see the main character’s personality. Psychoanalysis criticism is when people apply the same methods to
people interpretation of work literature. Psychoanalysis criticism is placed in the conflicts of shaping behavior and personality. The aim of used psychoanalytic
approach is to investigate about the conscious and unconscious decisions. “Psychoanalysis criticism is a form of literary criticism which uses some of the
technique of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature” Barry, 1995:96. The first psychoanalysis criticism was introduced to literary studies in
1920s and 1930s. During the first decades, it focused on exploring the author’s
personality and life in order to understand their work, it is known as psychobiography. The focus changed to character analysis in 1950s. There are
many mind aspect of the character that found in the analyzed of author’s work
which will be done in this paper. Now, psychoanalysis criticism involves the reader’s mind in the interpretation work.
Psychoanalysis criticism is used in this paper because the subject is about the characteristic of the person personality which closely related to the field of
psychology. It will be best explained through a psychological point of view.
C. Method of the Study
This writing is a library research. The data of this writing were taken from Blind Eye by James Stewart. The theories taken from A Glossary of Literary
Terms by Abrams about character and characterization, The Psychology of Human Behavior by Kalish and Theory of Literature by Wellek and Waren about the
relation between literature and psychology, A Psychoanalytic View of the Psychopath by Melow about the characteristic of psychopath, Theories of
Personality by Feist about theories of personality by Sigmund Freud. The approach was taken from Beginning Theory by Peter Barry about psychoanalytic
criticism. There were several steps that are taken in the research. First, it was reading
the Blind Eye novel carefully to understand the idea of psychopath characteristic through the story. The writer found the way the psychopath characteristic of the
main character presented in the story from this step.
The second step was finding out some references related to the theory of literature that was needed to help the writer to analyze the elements in the Blind
Eye novel such as theory of characteristic and characterization, relation between literature and psychology, the characteristics of a psychopath, theories of
personality by Sigmund Freud. The next was analyzing the character of Michael Swango as psychopath
by using theory characteristic and characterization and the characteristic of psychopath after read the whole novel. The writer analyzed the factors that make
Michael Swango as a psychopath by using theories of personality by Sigmund Freud after found out the characteristic of Michael Swango. Finally, the last step
was making a conclusion based on the overall analysis.
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