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h. Thought The author can give direct knowledge of what a person is thinking about.
The author can tell the readers what different people are thinking. The reader can understand why the character does the thing and emotional
feeling of the reader can also be involved when they read the story by knowing about the characterization.
2. The Relation between Literature and Psychology
Literature and psychology are two different, but it is closely related. Literature is representation of life in the form of language while psychology is
studies about human behavior. According to Wellek and Warren, literature is a representation of human feeling, experience, and life:
Literature is the reflection of human feeling toward his life. It is closely related to human experience through which we can learn the image of
human beings that is expressed in the written way. It can also be defined as the work of arts which represents human life Wellek and Warren,
1956:94. According to Atkinson, psychology
is the science that studies human’s behavior and mental process. Psychology is only relation to human.
It is clear that both of them cannot be separated from the life of human beings. According to Lindaurer, psychology is the studies about the
characteristics. The main object of this study is human being from real life. Literature is also representation of human feeling and life. Lindauer said that
literature is the best describing human condition in dramatic form. Literary works can serve as an object of psychoanalysis.
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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
