The Reason For Dr. Hanibal To Kill The 9 People In Thomas Harris’s Novel “The Silience Of The Lambs”

1. INTRODUCTION

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Background of the Study
Literature according to Roberts and Jacobs (1995:2) refers to

compositions that tells stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and
analyze and advocate ideas.
An idea is resulted from general and abstract thinking. In literature,
ideas relate to meaning, interpretation, explanation and significance.
Literature embodies values along with ideas.

Ideas are vital to an

understanding and appreciation of literature. Ideas are not as obvious as
character or setting. It is important to consider the meaning of what you’ve
read and then developed an explanatory and comprehensive assertion.
Ideas can be found in any of these: direct statements by the authorial voice,
direct statements by a first-person speaker, direct dramatic statements by
characters, figurative language, characters who stand for ideas, and the

work itself.
Literature may be classified into four categories or genres: (1)
prose fiction, (2) poetry, (3) drama, and (4) nonfiction prose. This paper
has a focus on prose fiction, particularly on novel. Novel according to
Hawthorn (1985:1)refers to a fictitious narrative prose or tale of
considerable long (now usually one long enough to fill one or more
volumes) in which characters and actions are representatives of the real life
of past or present times portrayed in a plot of more or less complexity.

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This paper provides an analysis about unique values in Thomas
Harris’s Novel The Silence of The Lambs. The word “unique” is generally
defined as position that shares an intelectual as a serial killer that makes
the main character become the mastermind of his work. In literature, a man
is equal to character or person that takes part in the story of the novel. That
is why the focus of analysis in this paper is the main character’s
personality which leads him to become a sociopath.
The writer could find out in the novel of Thomas Harris such
uniqueness where the values are debatable. Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a serial

killer who has a mental illness, who is cannibal (eating human body parts).
He is an expert in psychology and is able to frighten, manipulate, and bend
others to his will with mere words. This is the background as well as the
reason why the writer chooses the title: The Reason for Dr. Hannibal to
kill the 9 people in Thomas Harris’s Novel The Silence of The Lambs.

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Problem of the Study
The problems of the study are formulated as follows:

1. What are the reasons for Dr. Hannibalto kill the 9 people in Thomas
Harris’s Novel The Silence of The Lambs?
2. What are the characters of the playersin the novel The Silence of The
Lambs?
3. What are the motives of Dr. Hannibal killing some people in The
Silence of The Lambs?

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Scope of the Study
The scope of study only focuses on the dark side of the character

and on the darkness in the novel.

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The Objective of the Study
In relation to the problem of the study above, the objectives of the

study are:
1. To mention the kinds of reasons for Dr. Hannibal to kill in Thomas
Harris’s Novel The Silence of The Lambs.
2. To describe the characters of the players in Thomas Harris’s Novel The
Silence of The Lambs.

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The Purpose of the Study
The puropse of the study is to describe the reason and motiveof the

killing, and to analyze the main characters in the The Silence of The Lambs
Novel.

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The Reason for Choosing the Topic
The writer chooses the topic because this novel has an interesting

story about how clever and genius Dr. Hannibal Lecter is. And the writer
is interested in finding out the personal character as stated as “Pure
Sociopath”. The writer is also fascinated about his pschoanalysis and other
character such as Clarice Starling.

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Method of the Study
In writing this paper, the writer useslibrary research. The writer

reads some books related to the topic and gathers information from
internet to analyse the characters in the novel.

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