Rosemary West’s Psychopathic Attitude

4.2 Rosemary West’s Psychopathic Attitude

4.2.1 Rosemary West’s Background Rosemary grows up into a moody teenager and performed poorly. It is because the prenatal injury which caused by her mother. Her mother suffered from depression and was given ECT while pregnant. Her moody and poorly performed clearly seen in her bad treatment to Charmaine Fred’s stepdaughter from his first marriage. She often beats and finally kills Charmaine because her uncontrollable temper. Rosemary comes from a family where incest was common; her father was prone to violence and repeatedly sexually abused her since she was young. She also has sexual disorientation and gets lesbian urges when she pregnant. The sexual disorientation are inspectionism and sexual inversion. Raleigh M. Drake, Ph.D in Abnormal Psychology 1962:58 said that inspectionism is an abnormal object of love, person with this disorder has a tendency to inspect the body of others. Rose inspects Caroline’s body like a gynaecologist, it is uncommon treatment to normal person. While sexual inversion is a persistent love for person of the same sex; she loves for one of the same sex and sometimes no interest in either sex. It is because of unusual physical and mental traits and for this reason she makes a bid for the love of a member of the same sex because it seems more heterosexual. The unusual physical and mental traits comes from her father who was abuse her since she was young. This sexual inversion occurs when Rose pregnant, she will more interesting in having sex with women than with men. Universitas Sumatera Utara From the explanation above, the psychopathic attitude of Rosemary come from some factors, they are: prenatal injury caused by the ECT which makes her become moody and performed poorly, the background of her incestuous family that makes her has a sexual inversion and her abnormal objects of love called inspectionism. 4.2.2 Rosemary West’s Crimes • Sexual Abuse Sexual abuse is unwanted sexual activity, with perpetrators using force, making threats or taking advantage of victims not able to give consent. Immediate reactions to sexual abuse include shock, fear or disbelief. Long-term symptoms include anxiety, fear or post-traumatic stress disorder. In this novel, Rosemary West does some sexual abuse such as Groping, Kissing, torturing her victim and sexual disorientations. The term groping is used to define the touching or fondling of another person in a sexual way including through clothing, using the hands, without that other persons consent. She gropes Caroline in order to inspect Caroline’s body. It is an abnormal object of love called inspectionism. It can be seen from the quotations below: “With that, Rose grabbed my crutch. In a flash reaction, I pushed her hand away and stared at her in disbelief Rose started laughing and began groping at my breasts.” Roberts, 2005:40-41 • Sexual Inversion Rose gets her lesbian urges which also called sexual inversion. In Abnormal Psychology by Raleigh M. Drake 1962:54, sexual inversion is a Universitas Sumatera Utara part of perversions or sex neuroses that is a persistent love for person of the same sex. She loves for one of the same sex and sometimes no interest in either sex. It is caused by the unusual physical and mental traits. In this story, the sexual inversion of Rose described when she began to kiss Caroline full on the mouth. It can be seen from the quotation below: “Rose finished her tea off by gulping the remains down and then put her arm around my shoulder and kissed me full on the mouth. I moved away from her and shut my lips up tight. My rejection only made things worse and she became angry.” Roberts, 2005: 44 The rejection by Caroline makes Rose can not control her anger. Rose began torture Caroline by forced a fresh was of cotton into Caroline mouth, tied her with a white material, pressed a pillow over Caroline face and put her upper body weight on it and she also threaten Caroline that she will kill and bury Caroline if Caroline rejects her desire. This sadistic and brutality acts toward the criteria of psychopath. It can be seen in the quotation below: “Rose grabbed my hair and pulled me towards her while cursing me. They were both talking at the same time, calling me names. I thought they were going to kill me there and then, which would have been a relief at the time. To my horror, they spoke words to me that I will never forget. ’we are going to keep you in the cellar and let our black friends use you and when they have finished with you, we will kill you and bury you under the paving stones of Gloucester. There are hundreds of girls there, the police haven’t found them and they won’t find you’.” Roberts, 2005:56 Universitas Sumatera Utara CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS 5.1 CONCLUSION Having the data from the character’s psychopathic attitude throughout Caroline Roberts’ The Lost Girl, The writer puts some conclusions in this thesis, they are: 1. Verbal abuse is one reason that brings one into a feeling of threatening, weak, and inappropriate to have a better life so they disable to against the psychopath. 2. The murdering by psychopaths is a reason to vent their anger to the victim who rejects what they want. 3. Psychopathic act may include inspectionism, the abnormal object of love which gives a pleasure to the psychopath when he inspects the body of his victim. 4. Psychopathic act may include sexual inversion, a persistent love for person of the same sex. The psychopath will be uncontrollable when he gets the rejection from his lover. Universitas Sumatera Utara 5.2 SUGGESTIONS After analyzing this novel, the writer thinks it is very interesting to talk about the personality disorder especially psychopath. There so many points that we don’t know about the causes of that disorder. It realizes us that drugs, alcohol, refuses from the people in our environment, and bad memory from the environment make somebody likely to be a psychopath. By reading this thesis, the readers are invited to be sensitive on this problem. The writers also suggest that government must give a great concerns about the people with this personality disorder, and the parents or environment do not give a bad memories and treatment to somebody. Society also should be more aware to stranger person. I also realize my limited knowledge and material in finishing this thesis. The writer would be glad to invite the readers to give correction, suggestion, or any other input for the weakness of this writing in order to become fabulous writing. Universitas Sumatera Utara BIBLIOGRAPHY Barlow, David H and V. Mark Durand.1995.Abnormal Psychological an Integrative Approach. New York: BrooksCole Publishing. Cleckley, Harvey M.1941.The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Reinterpret the So- Called Psychopathic Personality. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Co. Davis, Derek Russel.1984.An Introduction to Psychopathology-fourth edition. Oxford: University Pers. Drake, Raleigh M.1962.Abnormal Psychology. New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams co. 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