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take it as the way that a life must be done. But the problem is many people who are suffering from this mental illness do not take
themselves as the person who considered [sic] sick by the society.
Wijaya states that a person who is suffering from a symptom of psychopathic behavior usually has assumption that all his works are correct
and those around him or her are the problems. In the story that is taken by Wijaya as his study, the character of Richard Wright seems like a psychopath
who does not realize that he is suffering from a mental disorder and tries to blame the environment as the cause of troubles.
Another study related to psychopathic behavior is studied by Rizky Dwi Febrianto in his undergraduate thesis entitled The Character of Miss
Waynflette as a Psychopath as Seen in Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy 2012: 46:
The perso n‟s pattern of thinking and behavior significantly differ from
the expectations of society and are so rigid that they interfere with the person‟s ability to function effectively. This is also something that
make people often asking [sic] why and how the psychopathic can do that again and again without any regret and afraid of being in prison.
There is something wrong with the way she thinks and solving problem. That is why psychopath cannot be included into criminal
behavior. In this study, Febrianto states that Miss Waynflette as a murderer has
no feeling of remorse after killing people. The feeling of no regret describes the characteristic of psychopaths which is caused by the distinct way of their
thought in seeing society or everything. Their distinct ways to think are different from people in general. They do not learn from the punishments
which make them fearless to do such a horrible action more than once. Hence, the psychopaths are unable to be classified as criminal.
From the three studies above, they have different foci in analysis. The first one explains how the religious precept, seven deadly sins, is taken by
John Doe as central theme of John Doe‟s serial murders to clarify moralization and his characteristics which represent villainous psychopath.
The second study explains that a psychopath chooses to blame the society or world as the problems for him or herself because he or she assumes that there
is nothing wrong with the activity that he or she does. In other words, a psychopath has no guilty feeling. The last study taken from an undergraduate
thesis focuses on the absence of remorse for murdering people. He explains that a psychopath as a type of mental disorders is unable to think or behave as
other normal people do. Therefore the psychopaths cannot be included as criminal behavior because of their disability to think the significance of their
situation, to experience the emotions, and also to obey the laws or rules. Thus, they are viewed as a deviant by the society.
Those three different studies explain in general the same topic which is mental disorder of psychopath. Based on the first study, the writer is able to
take a conclusion that John Doe is perfectly able to portray an evil psychopath using seven deadly sins to murder as moral statement. Then, in
the second study, Richard Wright suffers the similar mental disorder with John Doe as a psychopath and shows guiltless characteristics. The last study
by Febrianto concludes that the character‟s psychopathic personality has a
typical profile as a murderer which is similar with John Doe; Miss Waynflette has no remorse and has different way to think that drives her to keep killing
people. Seeing the character of John Doe, he uses seven deadly sins which is a religious percept as his fundamental reason and motivation to kill people.
This study is reasonable since all the facts to reveal his psychopathic behavior are considered.
On the other hand, this study has a different focus from the three studies above. None of them explains about the hidden related motivation of a
psychopath using religious precept for killing people. The writer chooses to explore the dynamic of unconsciousness of John Doe why he uses the seven
deadly sins as his motivation of murder through his psychopathic behavior. As a result, these three studies show the relevant topics to the study in the
seven deadly sins as the motivation of murder and the psychopathic behavior of John Doe revealing his hidden relation.