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Abrams said that human beings are presented through the characters, defined as the persons in a dramatic or narrative work with moral and
dispositional qualities expressed in their speech and action in the literature. People can find a lot of ideas from psychology and examples of
psychological cases revealed in the work if people do a close examination of literary works. Literary works become a rich resource for the application of
psychology laws. Kalish said that the good literary works communicate the characters’ feelings in a life like way and scholars from both fields may benefits
from the connection between psychology and literature: Writers can use the understanding provided by psychologist to enrich their
stories, and psychologist can gain in their understanding of human behavior by drawing from the deep sensitivity of good authors Kalish,
1973:8. People can conclude that literature and psychology are closely related
because of their mutual concern and object of study. Psychology becomes central in literature to explain about each character’s minds, desires, and actions. It can
explain the whole work of literature.
3. The Characteristics of a Psychopath
According to Meloy, psychopaths are the abnormalities of the psychopaths’ brain. Besides of the abnormalities of the psychopaths’ brain, the
genetic, environment, the absence of love, and lack of the emotional appreciation are also influence the characteristic of psychopaths.
“Two traits are essential in a criminal: boundless egoism and a strong destructive urge. Common to both of
these, and a necessary condition for their expression, is absence of love, lack of an
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emotional appreciation of human objects” Freud, 1928: 178. Stress and the pressure of life can also change people’s behavior to be brutal, but it cannot be
said of psychopaths if the condition is temporary and has the rational reason. Psychopaths can be detected when someone was childhood through a variety of
unusual behavior. In criminal cases, psychopaths are discovered as murderers, rapists, drunks, gamblers, swindlers, perpetrators of domestic violence, and
suicides. Otherwise, psychopaths are discovered as people who are intelligent of speech, charming, have a tremendous attraction, and fun.
There are six characteristics of psychopath personalities. The first characteristic is anti-social. Anti-social is the personality when people have not
good relation with other people in the society. They just have a few friends because they have not good relation with other people. People who have anti-
social personality do not have attention to other people and only thinking about themselves.
The second characteristic is egoistic. Psychopaths are very brilliant to show their interest with something that they like and will ignorance with other
things. Some psychopaths look as charismatic people. The behavior of impulsive psychopaths can be seen from not thinking first with their action that they do.
Psychopaths are generally acting of his willingness, for reasons that they like to do it. Psychopaths have the big emotion and commit acts of violence to against
others. Psychopaths are enjoying others pain and even laughing with others misfortune.
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The third characteristic is irritable. People who have lack of self-control personality in the psychopaths cannot control their emotion and it makes
psychopaths look frigid. Psychopaths have lack of consciences because they do not have a strong fear and anxiety in their life.
The fourth characteristic is dominant . Psychopaths’ behaviors look terrible
and astonish for the normal people. Psychopaths are looking the emotional as a form of weakness. They utilize that feeling to enter into the others feeling with
purpose of exploiting them. They have an interest to control other people and do not want anyone else have different opinions. Psychopaths are treating others
without feeling and also cruel. Psychopaths’ acts are generally involving of violence act.
The fifth characteristic is hypocritical. The one of the psychopath s’ traits
are the attractive appearance. Psychopaths have the smooth – talking. Psychopaths
look very nice, interesting, and entertaining in their conversation. Psychopaths are very smart to convince people about the positive things of them. They lie to other
people because they want to manipulate, cheating and lead on other people. The sixth characteristic is cruel. Psychopaths tend to break the rules and
expectations of society. Psychopaths have no conscience. Psychopaths look their self as superior people in their own rule.
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4. Theories of Personality by Sigmund Freud a. Provinces of the Mind
