Psychopath is often inconsistent. Sometimes there is no certain motive or incentive. Clekcley 1941: 340 gives explanation that the psychopaths unreliability
and his disregard for obligations and for consequences are manifested in both trivial and serious matters, are masked by demonstrations of conforming behavior, and
cannot be accounted for by ordinary motives or incentives. Although it can be confidently predicted that his failures and disloyalties will continue, it is impossible
to time them and to take satisfactory precautions against their effect. Here, it might be said, is not even a consistency in inconsistency but an inconsistency in
inconsistency. From the explanation above, the unreliability is reflected in leading character,
Hannibal Lecter. He can not be responsible doctor. He thinks that nothing is ever his fault. He wonders that he is perfect and he is brave to take risk although he does
wrong. Nothing wrong can ever originates with him, the psychopath’s logic dictates that everything bad is always someone else’s fault. He is able to sacrifice a worthy
thing such his medical license just to get what he wants. The obligation as a doctor is ignored because of his unreliability character.
4.1.3 Untruthfulness and Insincerity
Hannibal Lecter is thirteen years old and he lives in the orphanage after the death of his parents and his younger sister during the war. He is found in the woods
after the war like a deaf and mute child because he does not give respond to people who talk to him. He is so mysterious until Robert Lecter, his uncle brings him to live
in France with Lady Murasaki, his wife. Lady Murasaki is a graceful woman and she reminds Hannibal to the figure of his mother. She is a beautiful woman who gives
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warmth and affection to him so he loves this woman very much. He protects Lady Murasaki and does everything that his aunt wanted.
When a butcher named Paul Momund, in the market insults his aunt, he becomes so angry and acts cruelly. Then, Paul Momund is found death in the pier
and Hannibal is estimated as the suspect. He is investigated by a police named inspector Popil but he lies about the death of Paul Momund that he kills. When he is
asked by using polygraph as a lie detector, that machine can not consider that he is lying about the question of Paul’s murder. He is actually the murderer of Paul
Momund but he lies that he knows nothing.
“Do you have any guilty knowledge of the death of Paul Momund?” “Guilty knowledge?”
“Limit your responses to yes or no” “No”
The peak and valleys in the ink lines are constant. No increase in blood pressure, no increase in heartbeat, respiration constant and calm.
“You know the butcher is dead” “Yes”
Harris, 2006: 141
Hannibal Lecter shows the characteristic of psychopath which is untruthfulness and insincerity when he lies about Paul Momund’s murder. Polygraph
as a lie detector can not identify whether he is lying or not because he exhibits no reaction to the question. Normal person will blush, sweat or tremble, if he dares to
stretch the truth to the same degree. He does not register the physiological reactions that non- psychopath will have when he is lying. This is why a psychopath such
Hannibal often passes polygraphs. He also lies that he gets fish by fishing and not by taking the fish of Paul
Momund who is murdered by him in the pier. He lies to the inspector Popil that he gets those fishes from fishing on the pool at the back of his uncle’s house.
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“The butcher was fishing. He had blood and scales on his knife, but he had no fish. The chef tells me you bought in a splendid fish for dinner.
Where did you got the fish?” “By fishing, Inspector. We keep a baited line in the water behind the
boathouse. I’ll show you if you like. Inspector, did you choose war crimes?”
Harris, 2006: 144-145
Even when he is at school, he lies to his classmates and teachers that he has allergy to chalk dust so he can sit at the corner of the class when he draws many
Japanese style sketches to sell in galeries.
The most important elements in Hannibal budget’s budget was a letter of his own composition. The letter was signed Dr. Gamil Jolipoli,
Allergist and it alerted the school that Hannibal had a serious reaction to chalk dust, and should be seated as far as possible from the
blackboard. Harris, 2006: 163
That shows that Hannibal Lecter has untruthfulness and insincerity in his personality as the characteristic of psychopath. He is an expert in lying. Every
psychopath cannot be trusted because he does not want to admit his mistake. He denies that he does wrong. He says something now and says different thing
tomorrow. There is no sincerity in doing something. He does not care about others, about norms, and about rules surrounding him. Clekcley 1941: 341 explains about
that the psychopath shows a remarkable disregard for truth and is to be trusted no more in his accounts of the past than in his promises for the future or his statement of
present intentions. He gives the impression that he is incapable of ever attaining realistic comprehension of an attitude in other people which causes them to value
truth and cherish truthfulness in themselves. Typically he is at ease and unpretentious in making a serious promise or in falsely exculpating himself from accusations,
whether grave or trivial. His simplest statement in such matters carries special
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powers of conviction. Overemphasis, obvious glibness, and other traditional signs of the clever liar do not usually show in his words or in his manner.
From the explanation above, can be concluded that the untruthfulness and insincerity are figured out by how Hannibal does many lies without feeling guilty.
His lie can not be identified because for him lying is as easy matter and it is natural as breathing. He is so good at lying so can fool psychiatrists, police, and even
polygraphs. The most important to know that he can lie anyone and can not be found out. From the explanation above, Hannibal Lecter is untruthful and insincere person
as he is psychopath with that characteristic.
4.1.4 Inadequately Motivated Antisocial Behavior
