the sense of regret, and also they have no fear of punishment, shame, guilt, and empathy for the suffering caused by themselves to others.
Most cases of antisocial personality disorder are far less extreme, yet all share a lack of concern for what is right or wrong. People with this disorder bring
great disaster in their society, and for this reason they have been the focus of a great deal of research. Antisocial personality disorder is disturbingly common, with an
estimated lifetime prevalence of 4,5 percent of the adult males and 8 percent of the adult females in the United States. I choose this title because nowadays many people
who can not interact normally with their environment, maybe because they do not accept by society caused by their past which not good, consume drugs and alcohol or
their trauma when they were child. Their bad habits makes them unacceptable in society, so it makes them do not care about what they do, they feel free to do
anything without fear about the punishment. Beside that the story of this novel makes me interested in studying about psychopath through analyzed the background of the
characters and their crimes.
1.2 Problems of The Study
Based on the background of the study above, the problems discussed in this thesis are:
1. Why do Fred and Rose West become psychopaths?
2. What are the characteristics of psychopath?
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1.3 The Objective of The Study
There are two objectives to study this thesis, they are: 1.
To describe why Fred and Rose West become psychopaths in the novel The Lost Girl.
2. To find the characteristics of psychopath in the novel The Lost Girl.
1.4 The Scope of The Study
The study of The Lost Girl’s novel is limited to get deeper understanding by only analyzing the psychopath through the characters who are found in the
story: Fred West and Rose West.
1.5 Significance of The Study
The practical significances of this study are to make the reader of this thesis know what is novel, character and psychopath and also expected to give readers
knowledge of the characteristics of psychopath. It is as an additional reading material for people who are interested to know, discuss and study about how psychology can
be involved in literary works which called as literary psychology. The theoretical significance of this study is to add the literary analysis in
reference to psychological disorder matters in terms of psychopaths.
1.6 The Method of Study
In analyzing Caroline Roberts’ The Lost Girl, I used descriptive qualitative method. Moreover, the extrinsic approach such as, the biography and psychology of
the characters, also applied to support the method. First, the novel as the source of data is read for several times to find out the problems which faced by the characters.
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By using that method and the literary psychology principles, the data will be selected from the text of the novel before it is interpreted and analyzed. Then, the conclusion
of the data will be made to support the ideas of the researcher.
1.7 Review of related Literature
