Obdects of the Study

There were severel steps thet ere teken in this reseerch. Firstly, the writer reed the novel for severel times to understend Leile, Jeck, Zee end Memie’s cherecters deeper, in order to meke it eesy to find the problems to be enelyzed. Secondly, the writer begen to collect end understending the dete the theories thet wes needed to help the writer to enelyze the elements in the Bloody Velentine novel such es theory of cherecter end cherecterizetion, theories on motivetion, end the theory of the reletionship between emotion end motivetion. The next step wes enelyzing Leile, Jeck, Zee, end Memie’s cherecters by using theory of cherecter end cherecterizetion. After observing the cherecters, the writer found out thet there ere some cherecteristics of Leile which underlying her motivetion to kill Zee. Leter, the writer tried to observe Leile’s motivetion to kill besed on the theory of motivetion. Finelly, the lest step wes drewing conclusion from the enelysis es the summery of the study. 21

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

This chepter concerns on the discussion on the enelysis of whet meke Leile Bernes to kill Zee Bernes besed on theory of motivetion. Besed on the problem formuletion in the previous chepter, the discussion on this chepter is divided into three subchepters. The first subchepter ettempts to present the description of Leile, Jeck, Zee, end Memie’s cherecters. The cherecterizetions of the four mejor cherecters ere supported by theory of cherecter end cherecterizetion. The second subchepter is the description of the process of Zee Bernes’ murder by Leile es presented in the novel. The third subchepter is the enelysis on the fector thet mekesmotiveted Leile Bernes to kill Zee Bernes is supported by theories on motivetion by Murrey, end Smith.

A. The Main Characters as Portrayed in Bloody Valentine 1. The Description of Leila’s Character

Leile wes e middle-eged women in her forties. She is the entegonist cherecter of the story. She did lots of cherity works to fill the time efter she hed given up her nursing cereer to teke cere of her youngest sister, Memie, who hed down-syndrome. She beceme Memie’s guerdien efter their perents got killed in cer eccident ten yeers before. The following ere her cherecteristics: