get in her childhood, and a house is also symbolize as an escape from the primal scenes she ever sees. But, for Sybil, it will cost a lot of money, while she has not that
much Schreiber 332-334. On the other hand, the other personalities also take its wise action based on their thought. Peggy always plans to take over the selfhood,
Vanessa works at Laundromat, and Marcia storm the citadel of authorship Schreiber 343.
Sybil realizes that she is a hostage of the selves that she has not been able to deny. It raises conflicts also. For the limited funds, all the clothes in her wardrobe
she never buy, and her paintings are completed when she is absent. Furthermore, because the others take individual doses of the medicines, consequently it runs out
before it is time to renew a prescription Schreiber 343. There are also conflicts among the alternates. It is portrayed in certain
occasions when Peggy Lou controls Sybil’s body and when she goes to a store in Broadway. She picks a dish, and wants to break it, but, Vicky comes up and
restrains. And in spite of Vicky’s prevention, it makes them argue Schreiber 344.
b. Ignoring Her Belief
This conflict is revealed in the story during psychoanalysis. There is a war inside herself. Sybil tries to struggle against the rules of her religion. It is triggered
by the consideration that she has to obey the rules, whereas she does not like the rules and has to break them. Whereas the conflict within herself is the want to get
free from the religious distortions, yet her wanting to hold her belief. She PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
understands that the problem is one of salvaging God while she has to release herself from her past terror where religion was omnipresent Schreiber 261.
Another proof about a religion conflict within herself is shown on the quotation below
Pacing the consulting-room, Peggy Lou came to a sudden halt. ‘It’s supposed to do more than not upset you. It supposed to help you. But it never helped
me. It never helped Peggy Ann or any of the rest of us.’ The fire of rebellion had been unleashed, yet the church still stood’….’I’d like to tear the church
down’ Schreiber 264
From the quotation above we can see the emotions that Sybil cannot have. The anger reflects Peggy’s hatred that makes Peggy want to destroy the church. As she says that
the church only creates anger for her. The existence of the hatred and anger is also related to the evidence of sexual abuses that her mother has done to some children in
front of the church, in which people in Willow Corner do not care of what Hattie does Schreiber 193.
In dealing with this conflict, Sybil sometimes dissociates into Ruthie. Since the church become the place that she does not like to go, Ruthie, Sybil’s alternate
then tells to their parents that she is sick and can not go to the church Schreiber 266.
That is why, the conflict considered as avoidance-avoidance conflict, means that the alternatives are equally unattractive Warga 112. Because, she wants to hold
her belief, on the other hand she also wants to get free from religious distortions.
c. Commiting Suicide
After several years having psychoanalysis with Dr. Wilbur, Sybil feels that there will be no way out of her suffering. She thinks she will never be healed. She
feels alone, useless, and futile. Based on that consideration, she thinks that death will bring peace that will answer her problems.
She felt alone, useless, futile. Convinced that she was never going to get better, Sybil was faces with self-recriminations and complaints…I’d like to
die. But God doesn’t let me. You see I’d have to do it to me, and suicide is just wrong…Sybil walked closer to the river, but before she could actually
reach it, her body turned, propelled by another’s will. The body controlled by Vicky, sought and found a phone booth in one of the apartment house on
Riverside Drive Schreiber 320
According to Warga 112, the conflict here is considered as avoidance- avoidance conflict, which means both the alternatives are unattractive. She wants to
die, but it is not allowed by her religion. She traps into difficult situation. In her hesitation, she finally decides to go to commit suicide. But, before she really jumps
into Hudson River, Vicky, one of Sybil’s alternate takes the control and evades her from death. The existence of Vicky is the result of Sybil’s self-protection against the
conflict. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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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
