1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. The Background of the Study
Assassination is an act of killing someone for the way that is unlawful, or
which is against the law. It is the murder of a prominent person by a surprise attack, usually for payment. It is usually motivated by a variety of motives, such
as politics, jealousy, revenge, self-defense, and so on. It can be done in many ways. For example, by shooting a person using different kinds of weapons, by
exploding using bombs. A person who commits such an act is called an assassin. The assassins may carry out the assassination for the prospect of financial gain,
for avenge of agrievance, or for the desire to acquire fame or notoriety. The term of assassination is thought to be derived from the Arabic language Hashish, a
member of secret terrorist sect of Moeslems of the 11
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– 13
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Century, said to have been used by Hasan-And-Sabah to induce motivation his followers, who are
assigned to carry out political and other murders, usually at the cost of their lives. Assassination usually describe about the planned killing of a person who is
not under the legal jurisdiction of the killer, who is not physically in the hands of the killer, who has been selected by a resistance organization for death, and whose
death provides positive advantages to that organization. Murder is not morally justifiable. For example, killing a Pope is not more morally justifiable. It shocks
the world, because the Pope is the bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic church. The Pope is the leader of the city-state, the Vatican
daily work entrusted to a number of state agencies as well as individuals, who maintains Vatican relations with the outside world and produce decisions that
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will affect the lives of 1.2 billion Catholics around the world. In the Catholic church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle.
Concerning with my writing topic “The assassination of Pope in Dan Brown’s novel” is a fictional novel, the writer would like to explore thoroughly
the discussion about the assassination of Pope and an ancient secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years, reborn to continue their deadly
vendetta against their most hates enemy, the Catholic church.
1.2. The Problem
The problem is how to find the reason why the killers kill the Pope and how they kill him.
1.3. The Scope of the Study
In writing this paper, the writer tries to limit her scope by showing the relations between the assassination case and the reasons the Pope killed.
1.4. Objective of Study
The purpose of study as the following are: 1.
To know what are the motives to kill the Pope. 2.
To find out who kill the Pope. 3.
To find out why the killers kill the Pope. 4.
To know how the killers murder the Pope. 1.5. Reason for Choosing the Topic
The writer chooses the novel “Angels and Demons” as her topic because : 1.
The Pope is the bishop of Rome and head of church who is killed by a person whom people do not think to be able to murder.
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2. The story is taken from the best seller’s novel.
3. The novel has an inquistive topic which makes the writer eager to know.
4. The novel describes about the assassination of the Pope which is planned
by the Pope’s reliable.
1.6 The Method of Study
The writer uses library research that is done by collecting data from some books related to the topic. The sources of data are Dan Brown’s novel Angels and
Demons.
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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
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