Hence, the psychoanalytic approach is appropriate to analyze
Seven
to understand the characteristics of a psychopathic behavior as one of mental
disorders. Also, it is helpful to analyze the hidden motivation of John Doe using seven deadly sins to murder people by observing the thoughts and
actions of John Doe through his unconscious mind.
C. Method of the Study
The writer used a library research for analyzing
Seven
screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker. The references used in this study were divided into
two parts; primary and secondary references. The primary one was the screenplay itself,
Seven
and the secondary one involved some books of theory, such as, Abrams and Ha
rpham‟s
A Glossary of Literary Terms
, Reaske‟s
How to Analyze Drama
, Zanjani ‟s
Screenplay: Movie Script or Literature?
, Cleckley‟s
The Mask of Sanity
, Coleman and Broen‟s
Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life
, VanderVeldt and Odenwald‟s
Psychiatry and Catholicism
, Lahey‟s and Ciminero‟s
Maladaptive Behavior: An Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
, Feist‟s
Theories of Personality
, Barry‟s
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
, Easthope‟s
The Unconscious
, Gemes‟
Freud and Nietzsche on Sublimation
, Vergote‟s
Ethics and Sublimation
, and Aspenleiter‟s God’s Plan.
In order to finish this study, the writer took some steps in analyzing the screenplay. The first step was to read the screenplay for several times to get
understandings of the idea of the story, and then specified systematically the problems of the study. The second step was to find the studies which were
related to the study of
Seven
, and the theories focused on character and characterization, characteristics of psychopathic behavior, psychoanalysis, and
seven deadly sins. The third step applied the theories of character into the character of John Doe in the screenplay. Then the fourth step, the writer found
o ut the symptoms or characteristics of psychopath in John Doe‟s character
based on the concept of characteristics of psychopathic behavior. The last one was to try to observe the significance relation of seven deadly sins as the
motivation of murder and the psychopathic behavior through the characteristics of John Doe.
