CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 CONCLUSION
The writer draws some conclusions in this thesis after having analysis from the leading character’s psychopathic personality of novel Hannibal Rising by
Thomas Harris, as follow: 1.
Hannibal Lecter as the leading character of novel Hannibal Rising is figured as a character with psychopathic personality with some
certain characteristics. They are superficial charm and good intelligence; unreliability; untruthfulness and insincerity; lack of
remorse or shame; and inadequately motivated antisocial behavior. Those characteristics are reflected in Hannibal Lecter himself and he
can be concluded as psychopath.
2. The first cause of Hannibal Lecter’s psychopathic personality is
developmental crises that he should face since he is child until he is adult such as being born, having sister, escaping to the woods,
surviving in the hunting lodge, being orphan, going to school, and taking risks to take revenge to the killers of his sister. Accidental
crisis is the second cause of Hannibal Lecter’s psychopathic personality.
Hannibal Lecter becomes psychopath because inacceptable death of his parents and his younger sister during the
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war.Then, third cause of Hannibal Lecter’s psychopathic personality is head trauma during the war where he is found with the chain locked
around his neck in the woods.
5.2 SUGGESTIONS
Abnormal psychology is interesting topic to be discussed because there is deviation of mental development. Psychopath as one kind of abnormal psychology
happens because of some reasons. One of the reasons of being psychopath is bad childhood memory. Person with psychopathic personality usually has bad childhood
memory which haunts them and makes him acts cruel and inhuman. Through reading this thesis, readers aware that childhood memory affects to
entire life of someone. So the writer suggests that institution like an orphanage should pay attention to every orphan in the orphanage so they can live their lives
better even when they should survive in this world without parents. Government also should give protection to children without parents by giving them psychological
treatments to avoid them of being trauma with their bad memories so they can grown up normally. Parents as the smallest institution in the society should care to the
mental development of their children by giving them warmth and affection because children just need love and protection from their families. If people aware the
characteristics of psychopath and find them in someone’s personality, they should bring them to psychiatrist to receive certain treatment for healing them so they
cannot do harmful things which put others in dangerous situation. The writer realizes that this thesis is far from perfection because of limited
knowledge and material in finishing this thesis. The writer would be pleased to invite
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the readers to give suggestion, correction, or any other input for repairing this thesis in order to become impressive writing.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 Psychology and Literature
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