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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter consists of two parts, conclusions and suggestions. The conclusions wrap up all the answers of the formulated problems. The suggestions
consist of two parts, namely suggestion for the further study on Sybil, the True Story of Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities and for implementation of literature in
teaching Intensive Reading II.
A. Conclusions
After analyzing the novel, they are three points that can be concluded. The first conclusions concerns with the problems formulation in Sybil, the True Story of
Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities that is how Sybil and her splitting personalities described.
Based on the analysis, Sybil is described as a woman who possesses sixteen separated personalities because of horrible childhood trauma in the hands of a psycho
mother. She has to face psychical, sexual and emotional persecutes every day during her childhood. The most horrible thing is that when she tries to search for a helping
hand from her father, she only gets ignorance instead. Hence, she searches auxiliary within herself. Then, her unawareness creates some imaginary personalities that may
become rescuers. Sybil does not know about their existence, but all the personalities know about Sybil. They are: Vicky, who is sophisticated and generous; Marcia and
Vanessa, who are close friends that always do things together; Mary, a house woman who is very sensitive; Sybil Ann, the depressive woman; Peggy Lou, an energetic,
moody and bad tempered girl who takes Sybil’s unexpressed anger; Peggy Ann, an individual who takes the fearfulness of Sybil; Mike and Sid Dorsett, boys who comes
up based on identification of Sybil’s grandpa and father; The youngest Ruthie; Helen, a personality who gets the biggest terror because of Hattie Dorsett; Marjorie,
the sanguine personality; Clara, the religious girl; Nancy, a girl who also fanatic, but she claims herself as a person who just sees and listens the abuses, not experiences it;
and the last one is The Blonde, she comes up during Sybil’s recovery treatment. She claims that she is the girl Sybil wants to be.
The second conclusion concerns with Sybil’s Dissociative Identity Disorder, which includes the characteristics, the symptoms, and the causes. A person is said to
have this personality splitting is when heshe has two or more distinct personalities, by which each personality has its own name, sex, intelligence, and personal states.
Sybil is considered to have the Dissociative Identity Disorder. Sybil has the symptoms that show the proofs of this personality disorder. The first proof is that
Sybil has multiple personalities, namely: Peggy Lou who arrives in 1926; Peggy Ann, into whom the original Peggy has developed; Vicky, who appears in 1927;
Mary on 1933, Vanessa on 1935; Sid and Mike who arrive in the early1928, Nancy, Ruthie, Helen, Marjorie, Claire, and the Blonde who arrive during Sybil recovery
treatment. Sybil also has multiple attitudes. She will act differently based on who emerges within. The other symptoms are that headache and other body pain. When
Sybil is in the college, she is ever refused because she suffers from extreme PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
nervousness or hysteria, and because of that, a half of Sybil’s body becomes numb. She grows weak on one side, not always same side. Sybil and her other personalities
will twitch, jerk and carry on with unrestrained body movements. The symptoms are intensified by headache. Sybil must face, emptiness, lost time. It appears when Sybil
cannot be up against her problems. This is the phase when the other personalities take control.
Sybil faces a depersonalization as one symptom of dissociative identity disorder. Sybil becomes a paranoid of music, shoes and a buttonhook. Sybil often
feels that her life seems to be floating by in an unreal kind of way, filled with strange presentiments. She seems that her life is like a dream. She often feels that she is
walking beside her and watching her. The actions of taking over her body by the alternates create a hard pressure to
Sybil. It makes a deep depression as one of dissociative identity disorder’s symptoms. She faces a self-recriminations and complaints. And, she does not want to
live like the way she does. And the culmination of her depression is the desire to end her life.
By analyzing the novel deeply, it can be concluded that parents play a big role in making a healthy personality of the child. Hattie Dorsett, Sybil’s mother is a
person who becomes the taproot of her psychological disorder. Sybil’s mother does not give love and warmth; she does sexual, psychical and emotional abuses to Sybil
instead. Sybil is a victim from her mothers failed ambition in her youth and a target of her anger toward her father for stumbling off her dreams in music career. A father,
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a child, but rather be somebody who cannot play his responsibility. Willard takes actions to be apathetic, incompetence, irresponsible, or emotionally withdrawn. He
builds a distance from the child, critical and uncommunicative. The place where children live have effect on shaping child’s personality. The
environment where Sybil has spent her childhood may take a part in making her to be multiple. Moreover she has spent her eighteen years of her life there. She lives in the
puritan environment that the people live are also hypocrite, Willow Corner. Although, the self-righteous in the utterances of the people, but cruel is done in its
behavior. Everything is all looks as if run so average, so normal, and so puritanical. And for its actions, it large the prospect of Sybil’s sickness grows more fertile.
The third conclusion concerns with Sybil’s ways to cope with all the conflicts she is up against to. There are interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts. Relating to
the novel, Sybil faces interpersonal conflicts with both Hattie Dorsett and Willard Dorsett, as her parents. The relationship between Sybil and her mother, as a mother-
daughter is in an unharmonious one. Hattie, not only does some abuses, but also compels Sybil to do something incompatible with her lustrous. Sybil finds no best
way, except to accommodate her wants and surrenders on her mother’s wants. Accommodation is also considered as a best way in facing a conflict with Willard. It
expresses in the confrontation when Willard tries to separate Sybil with Danny Martin because of they are from different religion. Sybil thinks that it is such a
hypocritical thing because Willard also married with Hattie, who is a Methodist. And since Danny Martin is a Methodist, Willard sets a plan to move Danny’s family to
Texas. Sybil always sees the private activity of her parents during her childhood, in PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
psychology it calls primal scenes. It creates conflict. Because in Dorsett’s house never shows such affection expressions, for example: kisses, hugs. Moreover, those
expressions of love are forbidden and consider as sin. She traps in the confusions of what she experiences and the puritanical way of live in her house also.
Sybil also faces intrapersonal conflicts with the personalities within, because those personalities do what they think is right to do. Peggy Lou has a passion to
control the body. Marry decides to buy a house without Sybil’s permission, Vanessa works at Laundromat, and Marcia storm the citadel of authorship. What they do
makes Sybil be like a prisoner within herself. The conflict raises when she only has limited funds, but she finds the clothes in her wardrobe she never buys, the
medicines runs out long before it is time to renew a prescription, etc. The wanting to hold or ignore her religion also becomes an intrapersonal
conflict within Sybil. The conflict within Sybil is the want to get free from the religious distortions, yet she wants to hold her belief. Sybil understands that the
problem is one of salvaging God while she has to release herself from her past terror where religion is ubiquitous.
After several years having a psychoanalysis consultation, Sybil feels that there will be no way out from her psychological disorder, she thinks she never be
healed. She feels alone, useless, and futile. The conflict happens within Sybil is that she wants to die, but it is not allowed by her religion. She traps into a difficult
situation. In her hesitation, she finally decides to go to commit suicide.
B. Suggestions
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