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4.2 Lucia’s badness
Lucia Carmine is the other character beside of Jaime Mario in the novel of “The Sands of time”. Lucia is the daughter of a Mafia boss in Italy, she lost
everything when her father’s business crumbled. However, she managed to take revenge to the two of his fathers betrayers - the bribed judge and Carmines personal
bodyguard - through assassination. She was put in the wanted-list of the police since then, as the main suspect whose motives were too obvious to the public. Lucia
attempts to flee the country, deciding to go to Switzerland, where a hidden bank account contains millions of dollars promised to her by her father. However, while
going through Spain, she decides to hide out at the convent so the police won’t find
her. At the convent she is become a nuns, but her characters are contrast to be a nun. Murder and selfishness are the badness conduct owned by Lucia Cermine
4.2.1. Murder
Based on K ant’s theory, the categorical imperative, Killing people is
wrong whenever it would be inappropriate for someone to kill us, and we need to consider the motivational reason for killing someone. It would be wrong for people
to kill us out of greed just to take our money, so it is wrong for everyone to kill out of green to take other people’s money. However, it would be right for someone to kill
us if necessary to defend themselves from attack out of self-respect, so it is right for everyone else as well.
Lucia is a girl that was born from a wealthy family. She has bad characteristic. She does not care about other people at all. Lucia had already killed
Comment [T5]: Lebih baik disambung ke kalimat baru.
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and brothers into prison. It can be seen in the following quote: “Busceta never finished his toast. He was seized by a
sudden spasm, and he felt a red-hot poker stabbing at his heart. He grabbed his chest. “oh, my God call a doctor”
Lucia sat there, calmly sipping her tea, watching the judge stumble to his feet and fall to the floor. He lay there, his
body twitching, and then he was still.
” Sidney Sheldon : 137
The quotationis evidence that Lucia had killed someone. She killed the victim by giving poison to the water that would be drunk by the victim. It can be said that
Lucia had arranged a plan to kill the man. “Busceta never finished his toast. He was
seized by a sudden spasm, and he felt a red- hot poker stabbing at his heart.” These
sentences prove that there is a plan in the murder. The first is Lucia had prepared the poison
.The second is Lucia’s actions were not suspected by the victim while they were to get her at the time. How could he did not see
Lucia’s action when she put the poison into the drink. So it can be said that the homicide was planned by Lucia
because something that had been planned and trained. Therefore, it can not be known by others.
Lucia was able to kill that person without fear at all. In fact,she was able to watch the process of the death of her partner calmly, althoughat the time the victim
begged to Lucia to call a doctor. “..he felt a red-hot poker stabbing at his heart. He
grabbed his chest. oh, my God call a doctor” Lucia sat there, calmly sipping her tea,
watching the judge stumble to his feet and fall to the floor.” This quotation proves
that Lucia wanted the victims death. Lucia is a woman who was able tokilled. She did not have any fear as if she was a reliable murderer,Lucia sat there, calmly
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the time, she enjoyed the incident greatly , the incident that made the victim suffer, the incident that was never desired by the victim.
“Lucia carmine had murdered respected judge and had then committed a second murder within the very walls of a
prison. In their eyes, equal to her crimes was the fact that she had made fools of them. The news paper were having a
wonderful time at their expense.”
“I want her neck,” the police commisioner roared to his deputy. “ and I want it today.” Sidney Sheldon : 141.
In the quotation, there are words “Lucia carmine had murdered respected
judge..” In the quotation there are the wordsMurdered Lucia carmine had respected judge.. It means Lucia was able to kill a highly respected person. The man is a
judge, a person who should be able to predict the movement of Lucia at that time, who had the intention to kill him.
Lucia’s action made the police feel resentful because they could not catch Lucia,a woman who killed two people alone. It shows shrewdness and intelligence of
Lucia to kill someone , even she was capable to kill someone in the area of police or prison.
“...had then committed a second murder within the very walls of a prison.” From this quotation certainly Lucia had done criminal action that is murder. The
murder that had been filling her mind, she felt satisfied for what she had done. Lucia’s action was able to make police become angry and impatient to catch Lucia as
soon as possible. “I want her neck,” the police commisioner roared to his deputy. “ and I want it today.” The police wanted Lucias head, he spoke it loudly. It shows
that Lucia’s action is very annoying to the police.
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4.2.2. Selfishnes