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Leading Character’s Sociopathic

Behaviour in Flynn’s Gone Girl
Manurung, Intanta A.
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LEADING CHARACTER’S SOCIOPATHIC BEHAVIOUR IN
FLYNN’S GONE GIRL
A THESIS
BY
INTANTA A. MANURUNG
REG. NO 130705094
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
MEDAN 2017

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Praise and great gratitude submitted to Almighty God, Jesus Christ who
always gives his gracious mercy and tremendous blessing that has helped me
finishing this thesis entitled: Leading Character‘s Sociopathic Behaviour of Flynn‘s
Gone Girl. I do realize that I will not be able to finish this thesis without help,
encouragement and advice from people around me.
I would like to thank to all of those who have given the contribution so that
this thesis can be finished. I would like to deliver my greatest gratitude and
appreciation to all those incredible people.
1. My beloved parents, the reasons behind all good things that I do in my
life, Gomal Manurung, S.H, and Bina Gunari Tobing, S.H, S.Pd.K. They
always give me pray, encourage, love, spirit, motivation and patience
during finishing this thesis and waiting for my graduation. Thank you so
much for everything.
2. My dearest brother Syaloom Haholongan Manurung. Friend to fight,
argue, and share the precious moments with. Thanks for becoming my
motivation in finishing this study on time. You are definitely the best
brother that I have.
3. All my big family, especially Opung Tobing dan Opung Boru ,Tua Selly
who is always care to me while I‘m away from my parents. Thank you for
your love, all the encouragements, advices that you have been giving to
me. Such a blessing to have a family like you all.
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4. Dr. Drs. Budi Agustono, M.S., as the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies;
Dr. Deliana, M.Hum, as the Head of Department of English; Rahmadsyah
Rangkuti, M.A, Ph.D. as the Secretary of Department of English, for the
help suggestion, guidance, solutions and supports related to complete this
thesis and other administrative supports.
5. Dr. Siti Norma Nasution, M.Hum, as my Supervisor and Dra. Diah
Rahayu Pratama, M.Pd. as my Co-supervisor who had guided and
assisted me in writing and finishing the thesis. Thanks for your good
advice and valuable input.
6. Dr. H. Syahron Lubis, M.A, as my academic supervisor whom I always
ask for advice and suggestion during my academic years.
7. All the lectures and staff of Department of English who have shared their
excessive and valuable knowledge and their contribution during my
academic years. And thanks for the best admin Bang Kibot for helping to
prepare all the things and documents for finishing this thesis.
8. My beloved friends Fathiyah Zubaidi, Oryza Savitri Lubis, Tria
Kemuning, Geraldi Tarigan, M. Rezy Anugerah, Agung Perdana Putra,
Randy Utama Siregar (SHAUTIEN). Thanks for all the memories we
have shared, the laughter, ―joker‖, support and help. I really appreciate it
and I will always keep that in my mind.
9. All members of English Literature B 2013, thanks for being such a great
companion and my history during study in Department of English.
10. To all my senior especially Bang Aldi ‗kibo‘ for giving me advice and
helping me during finishing this thesis; my favorite junior Dwi, Oliv,
Zura, and Lovely thanks for the moment we shared, the laughter and the
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‗gibah‘, thanks for being such a good friend; Lalak and Onyak the
member of ―Hipertensi‖ gang; my little sister Christine Hutahaean, thank
you for always sticking around even I could be so annoying some times
and all the memories we shared together; my beloved yet so annoying
sister Kak Dava, thanks for being so kind, and being ‗my almost 24 hours
friend‘.
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ABSTRACT
This thesis entitles “Leading Character’s Sociopathic Behaviour in Flynn’s Gone

Girl”. This thesis discusses about the characteristics of a sociopath and the causes of
that sociopathic personality. There are two problems that focused in this thesis; the
sociopathic syndrome of leading character and the impact of her sociopathic to
people around her. The characteristics and the causes of sociopathic personality are
portrayed through the leading character of Gone Girl novel by Gillian Flynn. Amy
Elliot Dunne as the leading character in Gone Girl novel is portrayed as the frigid
heart that planned hear own death purposely to make her husband get arrested upon
her death accusation. The method of research that is used in this thesis is qualitative
method. Gone Girl novel by Gillian Flynn is the primary source of data by using
extrinsic approach and psychological theory. Psychological theory that is used in this
thesis is the psychoanalytic theory by Sigmund Freud. The purposes of this thesis are
to analyze and to prove that characteristic of sociopathic personality are portrayed
through Amy Elliot Dunne and to look back the causes of Amy Elliot Dunne‘s
sociopathic personality so can be understood the psychological problem which is
often adopted as the motif of literary work. From this research it is found that Amy
Elliot Dunne is a person with sociopathic behaviour that portrayed through her
behaviour such as lying, manipulating even killing other. The impacts of her
sociopathic syndrome is shown by her hostility and cheated.
Keyword: Novel Gone Girl, psychology, sociopathic behaviour, social

impact.
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ABSTRAK
Skripsi ini berjudul“Leading Character’s Sociopathic Behaviour in Flynn’s Gone

Girl”. Skripsi ini membahas tentang karakteristik seorang sosiopat dan penyebab
seseorang menjadi sosiopat. Skripsi ini berfokus pada dua masalah yaitu perilaku
sosiopat karakter utama dan dampak dari perilaku sosiopatnya terhadap orang-orang
disekitarnya. Karakteristik dan penyebab seseorang menjadi sosiopat tergambar
dalam diri karakter utama dalam novel Gone Girl karya Gillian Flynn. Amy Elliot
Dunne sebagai karakter utama dan novel Gone Girl digambarkan sebagai seorang
sosiopat berhati dingin yang merencanakan manipulasi atas kematiannya sendiri
dengan tujuan agar suaminya ditangkap atas tuduhan pembunuhan atas dirinya.
Metode yang digunakan dalam skripsi ini adalah metode kualitatif. Novel Gone Girl
karya Gillian Flynn menjadi sumber utama dengan menggunakan pendekatan
ekstrinsik dan teori psikologi. Teori psikologi yang digunakan sebagai landasan
skripsi ini adalah teori psikoanalitik oleh Sigmund Freud. Adapun tujuan dari
penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisa dan membuktikan bahwa karakteristik
seorang sosiopat terefleksikan dalam diri Amy Elliot Dunne dan untuk menelurusi
penyebab Amy Elliot Dunne menjadi sosiopat sehingga dapat dipahami masalah
psikologis yang diangkat menjadi motif dalam sebuah karya sastra. Dari penelitian
ini ditemukan bahwa Amy Elliot Dunne adalah seseorang dengan perilaku sosiopat
yang tergambar dari perilakunya yaitu berbohong, memanipulasi hingga membunuh.
Dampak dari perilaku sosiopat Amy dapat dilihat dari permusuhan dan
kebohongannya.
Kata kunci: Novel Gone Girl, psikologi, perilaku sosiopat, dampak

sosial.
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TABLE OF CONTENT
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ................................................................... v

COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ............................................................... vi
ACKNOWLEDGMENT ........................................................................... vii
ABSTRACT .................................................................................................. x
ABSTRAK ................................................................................................... xi
TABLE OF CONTENT ............................................................................ xii
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of The Study...................................................... 1
1.2.Problems of The Study ........................................................... 5
1.3. Objective of The Study.......................................................... 6
1.4. Scope of The Study ................................................................ 6
1.5. Significance of The Study ..................................................... 6
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1. Literature and Psychology .......................................................... 8
2.2. Character ................................................................................... 11
2.3. Sociopathic ............................................................................... 13
2.3.1. Kind of Sociopath .................................................................. 16
2.3.2. Characteristic of Sociopath .................................................... 18
2.3.3. Causative Factor of Sociopath………………………………20
2.4. Review of Related Studies…………………………………….21
CHAPTER III: METHOD OF THE STUDY
3.1. Source Data and Data ............................................................... 22
3.2. Data Collecting Procedure ........................................................ 22
3.3. Data Analysis Procedure........................................................... 23
CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS
4.1. Amy‘s Sociopathic Behaviour .................................................. 24
4.1.1. Alienated Type....................................................................... 24
4.1.1.a. Cheating .............................................................................. 24
4.1.1.b. Hostile ................................................................................. 27
4.2. The Impacts of Amy‘s Sociopathic Behaviour………………..31
4.2.1. Manipulating .......................................................................... 32
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4.2.2. Breaking the Law ................................................................... 34
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1. Conclusion ................................................................................ 37
5.2. Suggestion................................................................................. 38
REFERENCES ............................................................................................. 39
APPENDIXES
i. Author‘s Biography and Works
ii. Summary of The Novel
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
―Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all
knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent
rose smelling faintly of blood.‖ ― Tony Kushner, The Illusion
This word created by Tony Kushner from his play ―The Illusion” in 1988 to
remind us that sometimes love is not a something beautiful. Love can change became
hatred because somebody get hurt when he/she fall in love. Love can make jealousy
and love can create conflict. Love is the world‘s infinite mutability, yes it is right
because you can change someone that you love, and you can change your feeling
after you‘re already falling in love with the wrong person. You can change your
feeling because the one you love cheating behind you and suddenly you can be the
one who can do anything to revenge the hurt you get before.
Love can cause someone to lie, because some people think lying is a better
way to make someone they loved became happier. But you don‘t know if someone
you loved will get more hurts if they know the truth. And when they know about it,
so the hatred born and slowly grow bigger and stronger. Basically nobody born as a
murder, but when the hatred grow stronger because somebody feel hurt so much,
they can gone wild and think irrational to revenge their heartache.
Basically, sociopath is the type of mental disorder caused by neighborhood
factor. There is no one born in sociopath, because sociopath often causes by
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hijacking and the relationship between antisocial peoples. The sociopath usually
can‘t control and express their anger and their aggravation, easy to get angry and
threaten when they faced unsafe condition for them and they tend to use a threat, an
aggression and verbal violence.
The sociopath is the people who showed antisocial behaviour especially be
marked with the less empathy for other people, combined with abnormal behaviour
and disability to adjust them self with people norms. Another characteristic that
showed by the sociopath is stealing, lying, the less of regret to other people and to
living things, the not responsible behaviour, impulsive behaviour, the abuse of
alcohol and drugs, breaking the law, breaking other people‘s rights and many more.
People with sociopathic behaviour tend to be attractive, displayed the
manipulated behaviour to people around them and the sociopath often take control
for everything and all people around them. Although there is no one born with this
disease, the personality disorder of sociopath involve the history of persistent
antisocial behaviour during the childhood before 15 years old and if there is no
treated, this personality disorder can be continued until maturity.
The sociopath has the similarity with psychopath but have the differences in
some point. Both of this mental disorder can changed into extremist if they feel
unsatisfied during their action. The psychopath and the sociopath people will kill
anyone without feeling guilty because both of these grow with regardless feeling.
Both of this disease can cause a dangerous situation around us. And because of them
grow without regardless, usually they act with play safe and clean hand. It‘s hard for
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Cybermen, The Colorado Tragedy, and the Sociopath, this blog is Anne R.
Allen‘s blog. In this blog Anne talk about the gunman at the screening of The Dark
Knight Rises on Thursday night who killed some people. True sociopath doesn‘t
mind being seen as evil, they‘re usually pretty proud of it. It‘s important to remember
we judge others by what we know. A kind of truthful person expects kindness and
truth from others, a manipulator sees deviousness behind every smile, and a
sociopath will project the contents of his own damaged soul onto the entire
population.
Novel is one of literary work, which has some important element; character
and plot. In this thesis, the writer wants to analyze about Amy‘s sociopathic
behaviour as the leading character based on the novel and the plot inside. In this case,
the writer tends to take the definition of character from Robert Stanton to support this
analysis. Stanton (1965:33) said that actually character in term of literature consist
two understanding. First, character is human or maybe non-human, and the second,
character refers to the moral qualities of the human or non-human in fiction including
its attitude, emotion, and characteristic.
Plot is the whole sequence of events that are related to each other in the
story. Generally, plot has a convention structures: exposition, raising action,
conflict, climax, falling action and resolution. (Charter 1987: 136-137)
Just like Amy Elliot Dune, the leading character of Gillian Flynn‘s novel
Gone Girl. Nick and Amy Dunne are a couple living in a small town in Missouri.
Nick calls the authorities when she goes missing but something is off about his
behaviour. Is he hiding something? Is he sad or distraught enough? While the police
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believe his innocence is dwindling by the minute. Amy will show us how the
sociopath works. Amy Elliot Dune makes her own drama of her death. She makes it
because she wanted her husband get arrested. She wants to make sure to peoples that
her husband is the killer and she makes an organizing great escape. Everything has
been planned, her action was so clear, it makes the police and many of people blame
his husband, Nick Dune.
Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, comic book
writer and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Born on February 24,
1971 and she has three published novels are the thrillers Sharp Objects, Dark Place,
and Gone Girl, the latter of which she adapted for the screen in the 2014 film of the
same name directed by David Fincher. Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri and
raised in midtown Kansas City‘s Coleman Highlands neighborhood. She received her
undergraduate degrees in English and journalism at the University of Kansas and
then she spent two years in California writing for a trade magazine for human
resources professionals before moving to Chicago and attending Northwestern
University for a master‘s degree at its Medill School of Journalism in 1997.
Novel also is a kind of literary work that can apply psychological theory.
Novel is fictional narratives representing a way of life or an experience so characters
in novel are adopted from people in real life. The author applies psychological laws
in creating characters of this novel. So, psychology can enter into literature by the
study of creative process, and also the study of effects of literature upon its reader
that can be analyzed by using extrinsic approach.
One of the most psychology of literature theories to approach literary work is
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is composed by three elements: id, ego, and superego. Id includes instinctive and
primitive behaviour as the source of all psychic energy. It is based on pleasure
principle which strives for immediate gratification of all desires, wants, and need.
Ego controls Id to aware about real world. While superego is the aspect of
personality that holds entire moral standards and ideals that people acquire from
families and societies. When ego and superego can‘t control influence of a bad daily
treatment by someone, id will take control of entire mental and behaviour to be
impulsive and cruel as happens on the leading character of novel Gone Girl who
cannot control her id because of the influence of her bad daily treatment by her
husband, so she planned a very unexpected great escape to make all people think that
her husband has killed her.
In this study, the writer wants to explain the literature, in this case of novel,
can show the abnormal psychology phenomena that happen in the society. The
author of Gone Girl applies the principles of psychology in creating the leading
character of this novel. He can depict the process when a very bad experience in life
makes the personality of someone changes into sociopathic personality and adopts it
as the motif of novel and becomes the part of literature.
1.2 Problems of the Study
Based on explanation of the background of the study above, these are some
problems that have been formulated as follows:
1. How does Amy‘s sociopathic behaviour express in Gone Girl?
2. What are the impacts of Amy‘s sociopathic behaviour in Gone Girl?

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1.3 Objectives of the Study
Dealing with the problems above, this thesis tries to find out the answer of
those questions, they are:
1. To find out how Amy‘s sociopathic behaviour express in Gone Girl.
2. To find out the impacts of Amy‘s sociopathic behaviour in Gone Girl.
1.4 Scope of the Study
An analysis should have limitation in order to make the analysis focused on
the topic of the discussion. The analysis is focused on the sociopathic behaviour of
Amy as the leading character of novel Gone Girl. Based on David T. Lykken theory,
one of many kinds of sociopath is alienated type that happened to Amy. The
characteristics of sociopath such as; having a big ego, charismatic, very intelligent
but manipulative, care about no one and constantly breaking the law. This analysis
also concerns about the impacts of Amy‘s sociopathic behaviour that tends to be
explosive manner that leads to murder.
1.5 Significance of the Study
This thesis provides some signification of the study, they are:
1. To help the readers who are interested in analyzing the literary works,
especially in analyzing novels.
2. As the reference in literature, especially about analyzing the character from a
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3. This thesis could be used for the scientific research dealing with the
discussion about sociopath and the impact of sociopath which reflected in
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 Literature and Psychology
In analyzing literary work, such as novel, we need to apply some approaches
in case of getting the better ideas for understanding of how to analyze this literary
work. These approaches can be applied to analyze a literary work from inside,
outside, or from the both sides of aspects of literary work itself. In this case, the
writer applies extrinsic approach to analyze the novel from outside of the text. The
novel of Gone Girl is bringing sociopath as its main topic brings the analysis of the
novel to psychological approach as well as extrinsic approach.
Richard Taylor (1981:1) said that literature is essentially an imaginative act
that is an act of the writer‘s imagination in selecting, ordering, and interpreting life
experience. Literature also refers to composition that tells stories, dramatize
situation, express emotion and analyze advocates ideas. In enables us for recognizing
human dreams and struggles in different places and times that we would never
otherwise know. It provides the comparative basis from which we can see the
worthiness in the aims of all peoples, and help us to see the beauty in the world
around us. It also exercises emotions though interest, concern, tension, excitement,
hope, fear, regret, laughter, and sympathy.
Psychology is the study of behaviour and mental process, primarily among
humans. Human behaviours and mental process are nothing less than the substance
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Rathus (2007:4) explains about psychology. He says that:
―Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental process.

Topics of interest to psychologist include the nervous system, sensation
and perception, learning and memory intelligence, language, thought,
growth of a development, personality, stress and health, psychological
disorder, way of treating those disorders, sexual behavior, and the
behavior of people in social setting such as groups and organizations‖
Like other science psychology has its own goals. Its goals are to understand
behaviour and mental process. In psychology, psychologist observes and records
how people relate one to another and to environment. They also have learned much
that they can help people to fulfil their potential as human being and increase
understanding between individuals, groups, nations, and culture.
The object of psychology and literature is human being. Both of this science
studies about human behaviour or character and human development. Literature
consists of the psychology of the character who conducts a story while everything
that relates to the characters such as attitudes or behaviour and normality are part of
psychology. Psychology of literature is a study of literature which is value a works as
a psyche activity. The writer uses his feeling and emotion in his work. It also
happens to the readers, they will use their feeling and emotion in reading the literary
works because it is coming from the experience of the writer himself and the
experience from other people (Wellek and Warren, 1956:81-92)
Guerin, L. Wilfred in his book entitled A Handbook of Critical Approached
to Literature: Second Edition (1979:122) states that human mind in human
personality as character can be approach by using the psychoanalytic theory by
Sigmund Freud which explains about the difference about personality. Personality

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refers to those characteristics of the person that account for consistent pattern of
feeling, thinking, and behaviour.
Freud‘s personality concept consists of three main system, they are id, ego
and superego. Id is the component of personality that presents from birth and it is
entirely unconscious. It includes instinctive and primitive behaviour as the source of
all psychic energy. Id based on pleasure principle which strives for gratification of all
desires, wants, and needs without caring the reality. Ego is based on the reality
principle and it understands that desires and needs can‘t always be fulfilled. Ego
controls Id to aware about the real world. The, Superego is the aspect of personality
that holds entire moral standards and the ideals that people acquire from families and
societies.
A healthy personality should be able to balance three systems in it. People
who are too controlled by the id appear the impulsive and have a selfish desire.
People who are controlled by the ego is weak, they can‘t balance the needs with
personal desires with social duties of realistic. People who are controlled by the
superego appear stiff, to cling to morality, and love to rule others.
Koswara (1986:117) said that Abraham H. Maslow has the different opinion
of Freud‘s theory; he said that human being is basically good or rather neutral.
According to the humanity perspective, evil or destructive forces that exist in humans
is the result of bad environment and it is not innate.
When desires denied, a bad daily treatment by someone she hopes treating
she well, the influence of environment, etc. are not able to be controlled by ego and
superego, the failure of a person will be happened. Like what was happened to Amy,

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she planned her own death and made as like her husband killed her, she tortured and
killed Colling; her victim. Colling is a man who wants her as long her life; she did it
because she can‘t control her id. Freud theory assumes that basically people have an
evil character. Human impulses, if not controlled, will aim for destruction of another
human being, and also the destruction of his own.
This thesis will discuss about the characters as the element of psychology,
focusing on the Sociopath and the characteristic of sociopath itself which is
somehow developed the character‘s personality. These reading materials like Theory
of Literature by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren and The Sociopath Next Door, by
Martha Stout, Ph.D have become the basis of this analyzing and writing this thesis.
Also, the Teori-teori Kepribadian by Koswara and Psikologi Edisi Kesembilan by
Carol Wade and Carole Travis help the writer understanding the term and the
description of Sociopath itself.
2.2 Character
Character can be defined as people created by playwright, and imagined by
the audiences. They must fiction and non-fiction. The characters usually presented by
description and through their action; speech, and thoughts. A well-developed
character is one that has been thoroughly characterized, with many traits shown in
narrative. Character development is very important in character-driven literature,
where stories focus not on events, but on individual personalities.
Kennedy (1991:47) said that character is an imagined person who is exists in
the story. However, characters in novel have been specially created by the author.
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or author‘s mean of differencing one character to another. Characters are closely
related to the plot because character means action, while the action from the plot of
literary work. An author may show the characters in two general ways, they are: (1)
directly, telling his reader the characters‘ qualities, and (2) through action, that shows
the characters‘ deeds by which characters may be revealed.
There are some characters that viewed from the role aspect and the
importance level of characters in a story, they are:
a. Major Characters
Round character is a character with complex and many-sided moral qualities
and personal traits. Round characters can be classified into two kinds of
characters; protagonist and antagonist. Protagonist is the central character in
the story, whereas, antagonist is the force in the story that is a conflict with
protagonist.
b. Minor Character
A flat character is a minor character in a work or fiction that does not undergo
substantial change or growth in the course of a story. Flat character has only
one or two distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits. The characters
play a supporting role to the major or main character that, as a rule should be
round.
Through the explanation about the character above, the character of Amy is
the type of major character, especially round character because the portrayal
of her character is described with more detail and complex though the whole
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and also her response takes us by surprise. Amy becomes a cruel person when
she plans her own death and tortures their victim to support her plans but for
a while she also can become a very nice and sweet girl.
2.3 Sociopathic
Sociological phenomenon can be adapted as motif of literary work. There are
so many sociological phenomena as motifs in novel. Sociopath as one kind of mental
disorder often appears as motifs of novel. Psychopath is one of disorders related by
their associations with criminal behaviour. Psychopathy is characterized by a variety
of affective and behavioral traits, such as impulsivity, lack of remorse or empathy,
and irresponsibility.
―…abnormal personalities who either suffer personally because of their

abnormality or make a community suffer for it‖ (Schneider, 1923)
In Ephraim Rosen‘s book, abnormal psychology second edition explained
that the causes of sociopath are the genetic factor and environment. A child that lives
in a family that one of his or her parents has a tendency of mental illness is easier to
get this disorder. But a sociopath can be also born into a normal and loving family.
They are also the products of parental neglect, fatherless homes and illegitimacy.
Sociopath is one of antisocial personality disorder characterized by a lack of
regard for the moral or legal standards in the local culture. There is a marked
inability to get along with others or abide by societal rules. Individuals with
sociopathic personality having a mental condition in which a person consistently
shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others.
They often violate the law, becoming criminals. They may lie, behave violently or
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characteristics, people with this disorder typically can't fulfill responsibilities related
to family, work or school. People with antisocial personality disorder tend to
antagonize, manipulate or treat others harshly or with callous indifference. They
show no guilt or remorse for their behaviour. Sociopaths can be very charismatic, in
fact, and attract a group of followers who may commit deviant acts in the name of
the sociopath leader, or at the leader‘s behest.
In some cases, therefore, the total level of harm to society is increased
exponentially through the sociopath exerting his/her influence over desperate or
vulnerable individuals. This is why, from a criminological perspective, it is important
to understand the possible ramifications of deviant sociopathic behaviour, not just as
it affects the individual perpetrating it and/or his/her victims, but also in terms of
how it affects those whom the sociopath has recruited. There are few times that a,
―Sociopath would actually appear to be devoid of emotion. Such persons

are calculated enough to understand that they need to emote in the right
ways to get what they want. While a subtle person‘s personality is
grounded, a sociopath is a social chameleon, changing effortlessly into
whatever form suits their needs. A sociopath sees the world only in terms
of superficial appearances‖ (Myth, 2011).
This deviant personality also tends to see the world in a very selfish way.
Hervey Cleckley (1941:32), in The Mask of Sanity, which he later revised
four different times. This book played an important role in the history of
Psychopathy. In his book, Cleckley, a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the
Medical College of Georgia, catalogued the disorder in a unique fashion. He offered
vignette case studies relating the stories of a variety of individuals he identified as
psychopaths. Through these case studies as well as other chapters describing how
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typified the psychopath. Cleckley characterized the psychopath as lacking the
restraining effect of conscience and empathic concern for other people. He attributed
this lack of restraint not to a lack of socializing experiences, however, but due to a
psycho logical abnormality that makes socialization difficult for the psychopath. He
went on to say that the psychopath does not correctly learn the moral attitudes and
inhibitions of behaviour that most individuals learn. Cleckley likened this to
semantic aphasia, a condition that sometimes occurs in patients with a brain injury
where they are able to speak coherently, yet seem incapable of comprehending the
meaning of their own words.
One of the most striking characters of the sociopaths typical is their charm.
They are talking well, give the impression of being alert and clean-headed, know
how to employ their skills to manipulate other people, and how to ingratiate
themselves by entertaining people with exciting account of their exploits.
Dr. Robert D. Hare, in his book Without Conscience: The Disturbing World
of the Psychopath among Us who has made extensive studies of people with
psychopathic personalities told that the sociopaths are lying all the time and they do
not see this behaviour as a wrong. Their quest is only to serve themselves, and if
need to lying, cheating, or even murder, they will do so. The sociopaths are brilliant
to changing the subject when people catch them in lies, placing the onus on the
people, and denying their involvement or even trying to make people seem crazy.
They may seem laugh or cry but they present with no depth of emotions. The
sociopaths are more spontaneously and disorganized act out in doing crime. So that,
they are easier to catch nut they are more apt to leave the ample explosion of
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2.1.1 Kind of Sociopath
David T. Lykken in his book The Antisocial Personalities gave the following
classification to types of sociopathy. They are:
a. Common Sociopath
Common sociopath is one of the most disorder personalities that
happen. Individuals with common sociopath consciously using their ability to
influence other. Generally, they have satisfied with their life but ignore the
responsibility of their action.
b. Alienated Type
Individuals with alienated type is having problem with emphasizing
other. They can‘t feel the close emotional or relation with other people. Some
causes may be inherited through genetics or environments that do not display
compassion and love. Many of them committed violence and crime. Besides
humans, sometimes they show a feeling of coldness to pets or objects.
Common indications of this type are manipulation, irresponsibility, refusal to
conform to social norms, and excessive sexuality. This group is further
subdivided into several types, namely anti-affiliation, rival, anti-empathy, and
fraud.
(1) Disaffiliated Type: Inability to connect to others in every aspect
of life. All relationships are less intimate. David T. Lykken, author of
The Antisocial Personality argues this type of sociopath is motivated
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(2) Hostile Type: People who have this type of sociopath consistently
angry, often doing violent and very aggressive. They do this to
prevent them from feeling sad and depressed, so they are relying on
anger as a kind of survival mechanism.
(3) Dis-emphatic Type: Dis-empathetic types are able to feel an
emotional connection to a limited group of people. This group may
include friends, pets, or family members. Sociopaths consider people
outside of them group as the object of crime. This type of sociopath
feels aggrieved by the uncontrollable circumstances of its life. They
may feel cheated by physical disabilities or what they find
unattractive. They refuse to follow the rules set by society because
they feel like they have been cheated and released from a good life.
Aggressive sociopaths use violence, intimidation, and dominating
behaviour to gain a path. They have control over the victims and
having power through the violence. This becomes a special
satisfaction for them.
(4) The Cheated: Freud speaks somewhere about the individual who
feels disadvantaged by appearance or physical disability, by social or
class origin, minority status, or in some other way and who
rationalizes his failure to follow the social rules on the grounds that,
having been thus cheated at the outset, those rules do not apply to
him. It is an interesting and important fact that most of diverse
criminal types suggested here do tend to justify their conduct in one
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c. Dissocial Type
This type is psychologically normal, but they are also in line with
social norms and violence within a group. They have a circle of friends or co-
conspirators about whom they love. And of course, out of it, they do not care
about the others.
d. Aggressive Sociopath
Someone with aggressive sociopath personality learns to enjoy
hurting, frightening, tyrannizing others; they derive from it a feeling of power
and importance. The satisfactions of interpersonal dominance may motivate
not only criminals but other bullies who happen to be parents, teachers,
employers, bureaucrats, police officers, and so on.
2.1.2 Characteristic of Sociopath
a. Having a big ego
The great ego is often shown by a narcissistic, with great pride and
selfishness, and needs to be constantly admired by others. Sociopaths have a
similar trait - think of themselves as the best, everything, the center of the
world. They tend to blame others for their own mistakes, or shrewdly
influence others to trust them and / or offer "alternative facts" that they
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b. Charismatic, very intelligent, but manipulative
Sociopath is a liar, whether it's his goal to drive his mission or just to
have fun playing with someone else. A sociopath tends to display flat and
calm emotions, very rarely displaying nervousness or anxiety. Or just the
opposite, it can display an emotional response that is not in accordance with
the encountered because it has a low tolerance for stressors and frustration.
And because of this manipulative tendency, it would be difficult for the
layman to be able to distinguish what is honest or not from every word they
say. Or even, no one can ever know that they have a personality disorder.
c. Care about no one
Sociopaths often ignore others, and this starts from an early age or
early adolescence that continues into adulthood. A sociopath has no affection.
They ignore the safety of others, ignore the needs or feelings of others, and
tend to put them in danger for the benefit of oneself. Above all, sociopathy is
characterized by minimal shyness. The lack of empathy toward others may be
reflected in the aspect that sociopaths do not have many friends. Sociopaths
do not have the ability to maintain close relationships, although they have no
problem getting started with them. So does with his sex life, more likely to
like a short romantic relationship or an awful one night stand.
d. Constantly breaking the law
Sociopath is characterized by impulsive behaviour, followed by an
explosive and aggressive act. This is indicated by frequent clashes with legal
cases such as physical fights or recurrent attacks. This impulsive and

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irresponsible act is also shown in other aspects of life, such as social
obligations such as work or school, or financial affairs.
2.1.3 Causative Factors of Sociopath
The main factor that causes people to act sociopathic is not clear until now.
But Hare's hypothesis suggests that sociopathy is due to a malfunction of the brain.
Therefore, according to Hare, a sociopath is not just lying or hypocritical, but also
something more serious, if there are abnormalities in the brain.
The alleged biological factors also appear in Pridmore, Chambers and
McArthur reports in 2005. They reported an association between sociopathic
symptoms with serotonin system abnormalities, structural abnormalities, and
functional abnormalities in the brain. Another finding was also delivered by Litman a
year earlier. He mentions, sociopaths suffer from neurological disorders in erotic
violence syndrome. In 2003, Raine also revealed there was a coronary disorder of the
Corpus Collosum on the sociopath.
―People with sociopathic personality have a childhood background that

does not provide opportunities for emotional development in an optimal
manner. These foster children will grow into people who cannot
empathize and have no conscience (conscience)‖ (Kirkman, 2002)
Genetic and environmental factors also play a major role in sociopathic
characters. Stress or great stress of life can also change a person's behaviour becomes
brutal. But if it is temporary, because there are triggers that make sense, then it
cannot be said sociopath. Sociopathic features can actually be detected since
childhood through a variety of unusual behaviours. Antisocial behaviour in children
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2.4 Review of Related Studies
- Sorensen, Paul. 2014. Inside the Mind of Sociopath: Create Space
Independent Publishing Platform.
In this book, Sorensen gives some explanation about what a true sociopath is
like, how to recognize them, and how to deal with them – especially if they
cannot be avoided.
- Stout, Martha. 2005. The Sociopath Next Door. Boston: Broadway.
This book helps the writes to recognize how sociopath around us works or
acts. It also explains how we recognize them. One of their chief
characteristics is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more
charming or interesting than the other people around them.
- Lykken, David. 2013. The Antisocial Personalities. New Jersey:

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
This book helps the writer know about sociopath, and write a brief
description about sociopath, kind of sociopath, and the factors of sociopath.
- Sarwono, Sarlito Wirawan. 2006. Antara Psikopat dan Sosiopat: Kajian

dalam Jurnal-jurnal Barat. Retrieved from
http://www.ilmupsikologi.com/?p=8
This journal explains about the differences about psychopath and sociopath.
- Mac.Kanzie Paula. 2014. Psychopathy, Antisocial Personality &

Sociopathy: The Basics. A History Review, Illinois: The Forensic
Examiner.
In this journal explain about the sociopathic approach that I used to analysis
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CHAPTER III
METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 Data and Resource Data
The resource data of this research is the Gone Girl novel, written by Gillian
Flynn. This novel was published in 2012 which consist 432 pages. This thesis is
using qualitative methods. This method explains about how to understand structure
and pattern from the data. Observing the data to understand the phenomenon of what
is experienced by the subjects of the research such as behaviour, perception,
motivation, action, etc. (Moleong 2007:6). The data of this research is words, phrase,
and sentence which are to analyze the sociopath from the leading character and the
impact of sociopath behaviour from the leading character to peoples around her.
In this thesis, I applied the library research by searching and collecting
references that contain and support the topic. I also applied the internet research by
collecting data and browsing some information from the internet to support my
thesis.
Several steps were applied in the data collecting in this thesis. Firstly, data
acquisition from the novel was gathered by reading the novel to get full
understanding about what the novel told about. I read both, the English version and
the translation. The entire novel was read while identifying the sociopath found from
the characters based on the sociopath definition itself. Secondly, I gathered from
several books that related to this thesis. The related books concern to the subject
matter being analyzed is used as the source of idea to give additional information that
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3.2 Data Collecting Procedure
The primary source of the data is the novel itself and the data are the sentence
in novel related to the problems. There are some steps that the writer uses in doing
the analysis. Firstly, the source data is taken from Gillian Flynn‘s Gone Girl and read
the whole novel and watched the movie of course to get better understanding about
it. Secondly, the important information related to sociopath behaviour in leading
character of Gone Girl and the impact of that sociopath behaviour to peoples around
her from the novel are chose and collected. Thirdly, further information about all
those things above is found out from other sources such as books, internet, etc.
3.3 Data Analyzing Procedure
After collecting all the data, the next step is to analyze all those selected data to
prove what are written in the objective of this thesis and finally the writer can
imagine the conclusion for this thesis. The descriptive method is applied in analyzing
the data. Descriptive method is used to describe the main data from the novel. Those
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CHAPTER IV
ANALYSIS AND FINDING
4.1 Amy’s Sociopathic Behaviour
Sociopath is related to or characterized by asocial or antisocial behaviour or
exhibiting antisocial personality disorder. That is why individuals with sociopathic
personality having a mental condition in which a person consistently shows no
regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others. They often
violate the law, becoming criminals. They may lie, behave violently or impulsively.
Therefore, people with this disorder typically tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat
others harshly or with callous indifference. They show no guilt or remorse for their
behaviour. In this novel, Amy Elliot Dunne‘s sociopath is caused by alienation.
4.1.1 Alienation Type
Alienation often means turning away or keeping away from former friends or
associates. It means that alienated makes people feel isolated from a group or an
activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. Amy always
feels isolated because of cheated and hostile.
4.1.1a. Cheating
Being cheated on can be a profoundly painful experience and it can be hard to
accept the reality. Amy feels her husband cheated on her. It makes her painful
experience.
It was that line that caught me, the simplicity of it. The idea that I could do
something, and it would make a woman happy and it would be that easy.
Whatever you give me, I'll like. I felt an overwhelming wave of relief. And
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When the emotions Nick experiences on the night that he is first unfaithful to
Amy, he demonstrates that he is already deeply unhappy in his marriage, and being
around Amy makes him feel like he has failed and emasculates him. Andie, younger
and more naïve, looks up to Nick and is easily impressed by him. She showed
sympathy for Nick: he is unfaithful not simply out of lust, but rather because he feels
sad and lonely and wants the affection and validation that his marriage no longer
offers him.
Cheating on Amy revealed side to Nick and a lack of self-awareness. It
implies that Amy is actually the one at fault for his cheating, and that if she had been
a different sort of wife and woman, he might have been able to remain faithful to her.
It also shows how resentful Nick is of intelligent and demanding women, preferring
women like Andie, who don't seem to be his intellectual equal, and who allow him to
make decisions on their behalf.
Nick‘s cheating on Amy was caused by he felt unhappy in his marriage. He
also needed a woman who respected him. But for Amy, Nick’s cheating made her fain and
lose control. The concept of cheating is a special case of breaking one‘s promise.
Most cheating involves deception. Amy felt Nick cheated her with has another girl.
He broke their marrying.
I got there just in time to see him leaving with her. I was in the
goddamn parking lot, twenty feet behind him, and he didn‘t even
register me, I was a ghost. He didn‘t have his hands on her, not yet,
but I knew. I could tell because he was so aware of her. I followed
them, and suddenly, he pressed her up against a tree—in the middle of
town—and kissed her. Nick is cheating, I thought dumbly, and before
I could make myself say anything, they were going up to her
apartment. I waited for an hour, sitting on the doorstep, then got too
cold— blue fingernails, chattering teeth—and went home. He never
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Knowing her husband‘s love affair with another girl made Amy‘s thoughts about the
woman she pretended to be when she initially met Nick, and the woman that she
believes men want. Essentially, the Cool Girl is a projection of male fantasies
requiring an impossible combination of traits, and negates the idea of a woman with
any preferences of her own. It also makes life much simpler for men because they are
not required to respond to any demands placed upon them or meet any expectations.
Amy's description of pretending to be a Cool Girl reveals how good she is at acting
and pretending to be something she is not, a skill she uses throughout the novel.
That night at the Brooklyn party, I was playing the girl who was in style,
the girl a man like Nick wants: the Cool Girl. Men always say that as the
defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl
means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty
jokes and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves
threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her
mouth like she's hosting the world's biggest culinary gang bang while
somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot
and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a
chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want (Flynn
2012: 222)
Nick‘s cheating on her made she thought that she has to live with the
consequences of knowing that her husband doesn't really know her, or love her for
who she is. While Amy is very critical of men for desiring this type of woman, her
description actually matches up very well to Nick's description of what he likes about
Andie: she is easy-going, undemanding, and likes whatever he likes. It made her felt
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4.1.1b. Hostile
Hostility might be assumed to have a shared variance at least with depression,
neuroticism, low agreeableness, temperamental negative emotionality, harm
avoidance and low reward dependence, as well as character traits such as low self-
directedness and low cooperativeness. It is showing or feeling opposition or dislike;
unfriendly. Hostile is one of the characteristic that owned by psychopath. A
psychopath usually does not want to live in society, because if they are associated
with others, they feel bridled. There is some hostility which is reflected in Amy.
After marrying with Nick for years together, Amy still do not know or
recognize Nick‘s mother, Amy also no attempt to acquaint with the Nick‘s family.
Amy‘s hostility toward Nick‘s family can be described a:
But I couldn‘t tell Go that Amy loved our mother, because after all that
time, Amy still barely knew our mother. Their few meetings had left them
both baffled. (Flynn 2012: 12).
Amy feels unfriendly toward Nick‘s mother. Even though she was married
with Nick for years, Amy does not care to her mother in law. She does not want to
meet her, so that Nick disappoint toward Amy‘s hostility. He described Amy as:
Amy didn‘t care to know my family, didn‘t want to know my birthplace, and
yet for some reason, I thought moving home would be a good idea (Flynn
2012: 13).
When Nick‘s mother get cancer in fourth stadium. Actually Nick wants that
Amy pay the chemotherapy, but Amy already gives her money to her parents. Amy
does not think about Nick‘s mother sick which need some money to pay
chemotherapy. Amy‘s hostility toward Nick‘s mother described she does not care to
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Therefore, Nick then decides to move to his hometown in order to take care
of his mother. For Amy, to move from her parent‘s home is a very hard decision, but
at least she follows Nick‘s decision.
Another Amy‘s kindness is when she agrees to move and take care of
Nick‘s mother:
So I‘m keeping my head down and making the best of a bad situation,
and I mean that in the deep, literal Mama Mo usage. I keep my head
down and do my work: I drive Mo to doctor‘s appointments and
chemo appointments. Change the sickly water in the flower vase in
Nick‘s father‘s room, and I drop off cookies for the staff so they take
good care of him. I‘m making the best of a really bad situation, and
the situation is mostly bad because my husband, who brought me
here, who uprooted me to be closer to his ailing parents, seems to
have lost all interest in both me and said ailing parents (Flynn 104).
That situation shows it is very hard for Amy to be a kind woman with patient
and try to do better. The concept of hostility is used as the main construct and it
includes hostile attitudes. Amy shows her hostility toward everyone not only toward
Nick‘s mother, but also toward her friends.
Paula and Jessie who is train sing and fashion that discard by Amy after
what she wants to fulfilled. Paula and Jessie are friends in New York,
before she moves to Missouri. Friends. In New York, Amy made and shed
friends weekly; they were like her projects. But then I‘d ask about Jessie
or Paula a month later, and Amy would look at me like I was making up
words. (Flynn 2012: 75).
Amy hostiles her friend Paula and Jessie who her friend when she lived on
New York. Amy always meets them to tell about her sadness and cry to make her
feeling better. But, her feeling hostility make them not being friends again because
she make up words toward Paula and Jessie.
Amy‘s hostility shows that neglected or abused children have a higher risk
for depression, antisocial personality disorder, and intimate partner violence in young
adulthood. characterize ‗risky families‘ as being aggressive and conflictive, living in

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cold, unsupportive, and neglectful relationships which disturb children‘s emotion
control and expression, social competence. It also shows that retrospective
selfreports of risky family environments correlate with depression and hostility in
adulthood.
Nick‘s cheating make Amy depression. She says that she is a bit mad, but the
actions she does in order to put a revenge on Nick shows that she does not think
further.
So I may have gone a bit mad. I do know that framing your husband
for your murder is beyond the pale of what an average woman might
do. But it‘s so very necessary. Nick must be taught a lesson. He‘s
never been taught a lesson! (Flynn, 2012:264)
Amy is mad because of her depression. For Amy who has high self-esteem,
Nick‘s actions hurt her pride. It is the reason why she hostile to Nick. That is why
she decides to frame Nick is obviously impulsive since she does not think further.
She just wants Nick to be disadvantaged. She does not even think about Nick‘s fate
once he is framed. For Amy, she has to do it because it will teach Nick a lesson.
Furthermore, Amy‘s hostility toward Nick by writing a fake diary. She
prepares a diary to tell people about her being scare do her own husband. She writes
it so that she can get the cops and publics to her side. The quotation is shown below.
I wrote her very carefully, Diary Amy. She is designed to appeal to

the cops, to appeal to the public should portions be released. They
have to read this diary like it ‘ssomesort of Gothic tragedy.
Awonderful, good- hearted woman– whole life a head of her,
everything going for her, whatever else they say about women who
die–chooses the wrong mate and pays the ultimate price. They have to
like me. Her. (Flynn,2012:271)
The quotation above shows how Amy is being serious hostility toward other
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clearly seen that Amy‘s purpose is to manipulate other people so her plan to frame
Nick will be successful. Another Amy‘s hostility can be shows when she pl ans
fram e he r husba nd t o run for quite longtime. Therefore, she has to prepare a lot
of money in cash. It is impossible for her to purchase by using the credit card since it
can be tracked down. Amy starts to steal money bit by bit from her husband‘s pocket
and also from tip jar in her husband‘s bar. This case can be seen clearly in the below
quotation.
I have $10,200 in cash. If I‘d cleared out $10,200 in a month, that

would have been noticed. But I collected cash forwards from credit
cards I took out in Nick‘s name–the cards that would make him like a
greedy little cheat–and I siphoned off another $4,400 from our bank
account so verthe months: withdraw also f$200o r $300, nothing to
attract attention. I stole from Nick, from his pockets, a $20here, a$10
there, a slow deliberates tockpile–it‘slike that budge tingplan where you
put the money you‘d spend on your morning Starbucks into ajar, and at
the end of the year you have $1,500.And I‘d always steal from the tip
jarw hen I went to The Bar. (Flynn,2012:276)
Amy‘s hostility can be described through stealing husband‘s pocket. She
needs some money when she plans to run away from her husband. She also show
her hostility toward her husband when she manipulate other people by using an
alias. She uses Sali as two times in the novel. The first one is when she hides in the
cabin is. She clearly admits that she use Sali as so she can access the daily
information about Andie as seen below.
I dowonder about the little slut, Andie. I thought she‘d last exactly three
days. Then she wouldn‘t be able to resist sharing. I know she likes to
share because I‘m one of her friends on Facebook– my profile name is
invented (Madeleine Elster,ha!), my photo is stolen from popupad for
mortgages (blond, smiling, benefiting from historically low interest
rates). Four months ago, Madeleineran domly asked tobe Andie‘s friend,
and Andie,like pleas puppy,accepted, so I know the little girl fairly well,
along with all herminutiae-enthralled friends, who take many naps and
love Greek yogurt and pinot gringo and enjoy sharing that with each
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Amy‘s sociopath gives impact toward hostility. She shows her hostility toward
her husband by frame Nick. On the other hand, Amy‘s hostility can be describes
through her new friend. Greta, her new friend in her hiding, watches television that
shows the news of her missing. Amy waits Greta to compliment the appearance on
television, but in stead of compliments her because Greta mentions Amy as ‗spoiled
rich girl‘and‗Bitchy‘.
Sound to me like she was a spoiled rich girl, Greta says high maintenance.
Bitchy (Flynn, 2012:298).
This kind of comment is not expected by Amy since she wants to be seen as
‗low-maintenance, easy going, and cheerful‘. Because Greta‘s comment does not
fulfill her expectation, Amy spits on her beverages and cereal in the fridge when
Greta is away. This kind of actions obviously shows hostility because Amy show
her unfriendly to Greta because she cannot accept Greta‘s comment about her
appearance on the television.
4.2 The Impacts of Amy’s Sociopathic Behaviour
One of the most striking characters of the sociopaths typical is their charm.
They are talking well, give the impression of being alert and clean-headed, know
how to employ their skills to manipulate other people, and how to ingratiate
themselves by entertaining people with exciting account of their exploits. They are
lying all the time and they do not see this behaviour as a wrong. Their quest is only
to serve themselves, and if need to lying, cheating, or even murder, they will do so.
The sociopaths are brilliant to changing the subject when people catch them in lies,
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people seem crazy. They may seem laugh or cry but they present with no depth of
emotions. The sociopaths are more spontaneously and disorganized act out in doing
crime. So that, they are easier to catch nut they are more apt to leave the ample
explosion of violence.
In this analysis, the impacts of Amy‘s Sociopath Behaviour are based on
manipulating and breaking the rules.
4.2.1 Manipulating
Manipulating is the act of a diversion. He can make another people perform,
besides he owns do it with this ability, he rarely recognizable people. Besides kill a
people, Amy is also manipulating people, especially Nick, about falsify loss of her
and make a trap with the murder of against him. There is some manipulative which is
reflected in Amy, such as blood manipulation on the kitchen floor.
Amy is manipulating a blood in the kitchen floor as if she was hurt by Nick.
Amy put a knife into the wrist then she cut her in upper arm, while biting a rag so
that she wouldn‘t scream. She sat cross legged on kitchen floor for 10 minutes and
let the blood drips until make puddle.
‗Okay, because the tech did a Luminol sweep, and I‘m sorry to tell you, the
kitchen floor lit up. A good amount of blood was spilled there.‘ (Flynn,
2012:248)
Amy described a blood in the kitchen floor when Nick hurt her by cutting her in
upper arm. Blood in the floor can be a clue and a proven that Nick tries to kill Amy.
In fact it is only Amy manipulates the people. She cut herself to make Nick as a
victim.
Cut myself has been on the list a long time. I ended up cutting into the inside
of my upper arm, gnawing on a rag so I wouldn‘t scream. The living room
looks staged, yet the blood has been cleaned up: It can‘t be Amy! (Flynn,
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Besides manipulating a blood in the kitchen floor, Amy also manipulates the
policy that there is some chaos at home. She is sitting room in order to police thought
that there was a family quarrel.
―Stage the living room. Tip ottoman. Check‖. (Flynn, 2012: 345)
Furthermore, Amy manipulates Credit card. When Nick was trapped by Amy
with a bill credit card, she collected money from credit card by using the Nick name,
and it made Nick looks like greedy little cheat. Amy took money until $ 4,000. She
also steals from Nick‘s wallet and gets the money from a jar when she was in the bar.
But I collected cash forwards from credit cards I took out in Nick‘s name –
the cards that would make him look like a greedy little cheat – and I siphoned
off another $4,400 from our bank accounts over the months: withdrawals of
$200 or $300, nothing to attract attention. I stole from Nick, from his pockets,
a $20 here, a $10 there, a slow deliberate stockpile – it‘s like that budgeting
plan where you put the money you‘d spend on your morning Starbucks into a
jar, and at the end of the year you have $1,500. And I‘d always steal from the
tip jar when I went to The Bar. (Flynn, 2012:381-382)
Amy also does sex manipulation. She declares that she was trapped Tommy
O‘Hara with an alibi that she had been raped by Tommy. Amy went to Tommy‘s
apartment by bringing DVD comedy and a bag of burger. They watched the DVD
with the leg overlapped and then had sex. Amy has successfully manipulated
Tommy. She was successfully manipulated him.
She‘s got some bootleg DVD of a comic I like, an underground performance

in Durham, and she‘s got a sack of burgers, and we watch the DVD, and
she‘s got her leg flopped over mine, and then she‘s nestling into me, and …
sorry. She‘s your wife. My main point is: The girl knew how to work me.
And we end up …‘. (Flynn, 2012: 425)
Finally, Amy does a murder manipulation. She injured herself. She used a
bottle of wine to make wound on her vagina every day. And then, when everything

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was ready he had sex with Desi. From the action that conclude Amy raped by Desi.
That is not all; Amy also killed Desi with an alibi to turn her good name.
‗I found some twine in one corner of his basement. I used a steak knife to saw
it into four pieces—‘.
‗I took a wine bottle, and I abused myself with it every day, so the inside of
my vagina looked … right. Right for a rape victim. (Flynn, 2012: 283)
4.2.2 Breaking the Law
Sociopath is characterized by impulsive behaviour, followed by an explosive
and aggressive act. This is indicated by frequent clashes with legal cases such as
physical fights or recurrent attacks. In this case, Amy‘s sociopath impacts for many
people who she feels not understand her desire. That is why she has criminal records
without care the impact for herself.
Amy‘s sociopath makes her as murder. She kills Desi because she wants to
back to Nick again. One night when Amy watches Nick Dunne in a reality show. He
tells to the public that he already changes his attitude and promises to be a good
husband. He needs Amy to come back to him. Knowing that condition, Amy changes
her plan and she sets the condition to kill Desi, because she is already trapped in
Ozark Cabin, Desi‘s house, and cannot go because the house has password number in
the gate. Amy sets the condition that she kills Desi accidentally, because of self-
defense to safe herself:
I have mixed up some martinis, I announce—Desi loves a decadent

afternoon drink—and when he makes a move to put on his shirt and fetch
them, I insist he stay in bed. ―I want to do something for you for a change,‖ I
say. So I scamper into the kitchen and get two big martini glasses, and into
mine I put gin and a single olive. Into his I put three olives, gin, olive juice,
vermouth, and the last of my sleeping pills, three of them, crushed.... ―Don‘t
you like my martini?‖.... ―If it makes you feel better!‖ He is giddy,
triumphant. Hiscock is slick with conquest. He is basically, like all men. Soon
he is sleepy, and after that he is snoring. And I can begin (Flynn, 2012: 258).

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Amy kills Desi because she wants to back to Nick again. She wants to live together
again with Nick, but she have to clarifies her situation why she kills Desi Colling.
Because Amy is a smart but psychopath woman, she manipulates the situation by her
serious mimic and fake evidence. Actually, the detective Rhonda Boney does not
believe Amy at all, but because there is not strong evidence that proves Amy murder
of Desi, detective Boney has to let the case go.
Perfectly, Amy sets the condition to kill Desi because she has imagine that
she will make her life better again with Nick, but she trapped by Desi, so the only
way to be free is killing Desi by self-defense claim:
I still have Desi‘s semen inside me from the last time he raped me, so the
medical examination goes fine. My rope-wreathed wrists, my damaged
vagina, my bruises—the body I present them is textbook. An older male
doctor with humid breath and thick fingers performs the pelvic exam—
scraping and wheezing in time—while Detective Rhonda Boney holds my
hand (Flynn, 2012: 264).
Amy thinks that she will get her old money back from her parents and new Nick
comes when Nick is interviewing in a Ellen Abbot reality show. Those things make
Amy changes her mind and she prepares all the condition to make her back in what
way she wants:
Nick forgives me—I screwed you over, you screwed me over, let‘s make up.
What if his code is true? Nick wants me back. Nick wants me back so he can
treat me right. So he can spend the rest of his life treating me the way he
should. It sounds rather lovely. We could go back to New York. Sales for the
Amazing Amy books have skyrocketed since
My disappearance—three generations of readers have remembered how much
they love me. My greedy, stupid, irresponsible parents can finally pay back
my trust fund. With interest. Because I want to go back to my old life. Or my
old life with my old money and my New Nick. Love-Honor-and-Obey Nick.
Maybe he‘s learned his lesson. Maybe he‘ll be like he was before. I need to
get home to him (Flynn, 2012: 249).
Amy lies to the public that she was kidnapped by Desi. When she was in the
living room and someone rang the bell, Amy thought that Nick gave her surprise

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because it was their five anniversary. But it was Desi who came and forced her to
follow. Amy was trying to fight him back, but it made Desi angry and at least Amy
had to follow Desi to his home and when she had good opportunity, she killed Desi
to defend herself and back to Nick:
Desi barged in, and he was pacing around the living room, all flustered and
kind of frantic, and he said, What are you doing for your anniversary? It
frightened me, that he knew today was our anniversary, and he seemed angry
about it, and then his arm flashed out and he had me by the wrist and was
twisting it behind my back, and we struggled. I put up a real fight. B: What
next? A: I kicked him and got away for a second and ran to the kitchen, and
we struggled more and he clubbed me once with the big wooden Judy handle,
and I went flying and then he hit me two or three more times. I remember not
being able to see for a second, just dizzy, my head Was throbbing and I tried
to grab for the handle and he stabbed my Arm with this pocketknife he was
carrying (Flynn, 2012: 265-266).
After the public believes to Amy‘s story, she back home with Nick. Being in
curiosity, Nick asks Amy the real story, because he does not believe her story at all.
Amy feels that if she is back she will get better life with Nick, but the fact is Nick
doubts her honesty.
―You killed Desi so you had a new story, so you could come back and be
beloved Amy and not ever have to take the blame for what you did. Don‘t
you get it, Amy, the irony? It‘s what you always hated about me—that I
never dealt with the consequences of my actions, right? (Flynn, 2012: 272).

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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusions
After analyzing Flynn‘s Gone Girl, the researcher draws some
conclusions based on discussion in the previous chapters. Amy‘s sociopath
makes her manipulate, lie, and aggressive. She has empathy to put herself into
another‘s feeling to attract. Then, she sets a very perfect situation with her
body that she got sexual assault from Desi in the previous time. She is also
easily irritated and aggressive toward simple things that annoy her. Amy‘s
sociopathic is caused by her alienation which her parents always oppress her to
do what her parents‘ instruction without any bad feeling and disobey. She
does not really care whether her actions are appropriate according to social
norms or not. She shows it through several actions such as stealing money,
spitting on food, and even killing people. Amy keeps deceiving people around
her in various ways. She manipulates her neighbor and also conning other
people. Therefore, Amy can be categorized suffering antisocial personality
disorder.
From the discussions in the previous chapters, known that sociopath is
characterized by a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local
culture. That is why someone with a sociopathic behaviour is a marked inability
to get along with others or abide by societal rules. Therefore, this study can be
concluded that:

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1. Amy‘s sociopathic behaviour is caused by alienation. It turns away or
keeping away someone from former friends or associates. Amy‘s alienation is
expressed through cheated and hostile.
2. The impacts of Amy‘s sociopathic behaviour in Gone Girl are shown by
manipulating and breaking the law.
5.2 Suggestions
In studying English, especially in literature, the readers are suggested to do
the following.
1. It is suggested that the readers prepare a selected novel and read it accurately to
get a better understanding of the story in it. A selected novel is needed to offer
the reader valuable messages or lesson particularly related to literature.
2. Other researchers are suggested to do further researches on drama, poetry, prose,
etc., as a medium of studying literature.

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APPENDICES
APPENDIX I
i. Author’s Biography and Works
Gillian Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri to two community-college
professors—her mother taught reading; her father, film. Thus she spent an inordinate
amount of her youth nosing through books and watching movies. She has happy
memories of having A Wrinkle in Time pried from her hands at the dinner table, and
also of seeing Alien, Psycho and Bonnie and Clyde at a questionable age (like,
seven). It was a good childhood.
For college, she headed to the University of Kansas, where she received her
undergraduate degrees in English and journalism. After a two-year stint writing
about human resources for a trade magazine in California, Flynn moved to Chicago.
There she earned her master‘s degree in journalism from Northwestern University
and discovered that she was way too wimpy to make it as a crime reporter. On the
other hand, she was a movie geek with a journalism degree, so she moved to New
York City and joined Entertainment Weekly magazine, where she wrote happily for
10 years, visiting film sets around the world (to New Zealand for The Lord of the
Rings, to Prague for The Brothers Grimm, to somewhere off the highway in Florida
for Jackass: The Movie). During her last four years at EW, Flynn was the TV critic
(all-time best TV show: The Wire).
Flynn‘s 2006 debut novel, the literary mystery Sharp Objects, was an Edgar
Award finalist and the winner of two of Britain‘s Dagger Awards—the first book
ever to win multiple Daggers in one year. Movie rights have been sold.

Flynn‘s second novel, the 2009 New York Times bestseller Dark Places, was
a New Yorker Reviewers‘ Favorite, Weekend TODAY Top Summer Read,
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009, and Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction choice.
In 2015, the movie adaptation starring Charlize Theron was released.
Flynn‘s third novel, Gone Girl, was an international sensation and a runaway
hit that has spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller
lists. Gone Girl was named one of the best books of the year by People Magazine
and Janet Maslin at the New York Times. Nominated for both the Edgar Award and
the Anthony Award for Best Novel, Flynn wrote the screenplay for David Fincher‘s
2014 adaptation of Gone Girl for the big screen, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund
Pike.
Her newest release, The Grownup, is an Edgar Award-winning short story
and an homage to the classic ghost story. This is the first time it is being published as
a standalone. Flynn‘s work has been published in forty-one languages. She lives in
Chicago with her husband, Brett Nolan, their children, and a giant black cat named
Roy. In theory she is working on her next novel. In reality she is possibly playing
Ms. Pac-Man in her basement lair.

APPENDIX II
Summary of The Novel
The novel begins on the morning of Nick Dunne‘s wedding anniversary. On
that same day his wife Amy Elliott Dunne disappears from their home in North
Carthage, Missouri. A few years before, Nick and Amy moved from New York to
Missouri, because Nick‘s mother, Maureen, was diagnosed with stage fourth cancer.
Amy, a native New Yorker, was not thrilled about the decision her husband made
without even consulting her and the move exacerbated the stress created by both
Amy and Nick recently losing their jobs. Nick now works at a bar he jointly owns
with his twin sister Margo, and also teaches at the local community college. Amy has
never found work or made friends within their new community. Their marriage was
in crisis at the point that Amy disappeared.
Nick receives a call from his neighbor about suspicious signs at his house and
hurries home to find that his wife has vanished. Alarmed by possible signs of her
having been abducted, he immediately calls the police. By nighttime his house is
filled with cops and news reporters. The widespread media attention comes in part
from Amy's fame as the inspiration for the fictional character in the Amazing Amy
book series. The series was written by her parents Rand and Marybeth Elliott, who
are child psychologists. Rand and Marybeth are called to assist in the search for their
daughter. Questions about who might have hurt or abducted Amy raise a number of
suspects from her past: Hillary Handy, an obsessed fan of the Amazing Amy books;
Desi Collings, her prep school boyfriend who had been obsessed with her for years;
and Tommy O‘Hara, Amy‘s ex- boyfriend who she accused of rape. While initially

people are kind and supportive to Nick, he quickly notices that the detectives
question him closely and have suspicions. Nick knows that in cases where a woman
vanishes, her husband or boyfriend is often the prime suspect. As a result, he tries not
to reveal that his marriage was troubled or any other details that might implicate him,
which results in him telling a series of lies to the police and detectives.
The narration of the events surrounding the disappearance, told from Nick's
perspective, alternates with a series of diary entries written by Amy, detailing the
period from the moment she met Nick to the day before her disappearance. The diary
shows Amy as an optimistic, loving, and supportive wife. While she and Nick
initially have a picture perfect romance, the stress of job loss and the move takes a
toll on their relationship. The diary describes Nick gradually becoming distant,
possessive, violent, and demanding to Amy, which causes Amy to become frightened
of him. She even buys a gun in order to protect herself if necessary. The last entry in
the diary, from the day before Amy's disappearance, ends with her making a dark
joke about possibly being killed by Nick.
While looking for clues in the Dunne house, detectives find an envelope with
the clues Amy has written for a treasure hunt, a ritual she observes every year for
their anniversary. As Nick follows the clues, he becomes increasingly concerned and
suspicious that Amy knew more about some of his secrets than she let on. As he
reflects on his wife's personality as a strong-willed, obsessive, and power-hungry
woman (an idea that does not align with Amy's personality as it is presented in the
diary), he begins to wonder if Amy has somehow staged the disappearance herself in
order to frame him and punish him. As days pass, detectives uncover more and more
evidence which cause Nick to look more and more suspicious: there are signs of

blood loss on the kitchen floor, evidence of marital problems, and expensive credit
card transactions in Nick's name, which he swears he didn't make. Several of Nick's
initial lies get exposed, and he also makes negative impressions in the media. Nick is
also very afraid of his biggest secret being exposed: he has been having an affair with
one of his students, a young woman named Andie.
The situation grows worse and worse for Nick, until during a candle light
vigil honoring Amy, Noelle Hawthorne, Amy‘s best friend, interrupts his speech to
accuse him of murdering his wife, and also reveals that Amy was pregnant. Nick
finds this news shocking. A few years earlier, he and Amy had pursued fertility
treatments in hopes of getting pregnant, but she then lost interest in the plan.
However, Amy's medical records confirm that she was indeed pregnant, creating
even more public sympathy and pressure to find her. Nick is increasingly convinced
that he is the victim of an evil scheme on Amy's part. The last clue of Amy‘s treasure
hunt leads him to the woodshed that Margo has in her home, which contains the
purchases charged to the credit card. This strongly gives the impression that Nick has
been plotting his wife's death.
Part Two begins with Amy narrating the events surrounding her
disappearance. She has created an elaborate plan, which she has been working on for
over a year, in order to fake her own murder and frame Nick for it. Increasingly
disappointed in and frustrated by her husband, when she discovers he is having an
affair that is the final straw. She has written the diary purposefully to fabricate an
image of her as sweet, sympathetic, and innocent, and to make Nick look capable of
a violent crime. She also opened the credit cards and made all the purchases, and
faked a pregnancy by using the urine of her pregnant friend Noelle and passing it off

as her own. On the day of the disappearance, she cuts herself and sheds her blood to
make it look like she has been attacked, also staging the house to suggest an intrusion
and a struggle. Using a disguise and a car she has secretly purchased, she then drives
to a cabin in the Ozarks to hide out. She plans to enjoy watching Nick be accused of
her murder and go to prison for it. The final step will be for her to kill herself and
allow her body to be found, apparently confirming his guilt, so that he will be
executed for her murder.
The narration now alternates between Amy and Nick's perspectives. Nick,
aware of how much suspicion surrounds him, hires Tanner Bolt, an attorney most
famous for winning cases for men accused of murdering their wives. He confides to
Tanner his belief that Amy has framed him, and Tanner helps to do some damage
control to Nick's image. It seems like he might again become an object of sympathy,
but the revelation of his affair with Andie is more damning news. The police also
find the items hidden in the woodshed, and arrest Nick for the murder of his wife.
Meanwhile, Nick has been conducting his own research into Amy's past and finds
that many of the stories she has told don't seem to be true, and suggest that she is
highly skilled at lying and manipulation. Nick knows that his only hope is to
convince Amy to come back, and he tries to make himself as appealing to her as
possible, while secretly planning to kill her once she returns.
Amy's plans go awry; first as she becomes less interested in the idea of
suicide, and second after some people she meets in the Ozarks steal all the money
she had saved to survive on. She now has to change her plan, and she reaches out to
Desi Collins, her wealthy ex-boyfriend. She tells him that she has run away because
Nick was abusing her. Because Desi is obsessively in love with her and wants her all

to him, he takes her to his lake house. Once there, Amy increasingly finds Desi
oppressive and controlling. As Amy watches Nick's interactions with the media, she
finds herself more attracted to him. She decides to escape from Desi and return to
Nick. Knowing what Desi finds attractive, she seduces him and then, after they have
sex, she drugs him with sleeping pills.
Nick is shocked, when forty days after disappearing, Amy shows up at his
doorstep, bloody and bruised. The story she tells both Nick and the police at first is
that she was abducted by Desi, who unexpectedly showed up at her house on the day
of the anniversary. Since then, he has been holding her captive and raping her
repeatedly. She was finally able to get her hands on a knife, which she attacked him
with, killing him, and then returned in shock to her home. She also accounts for her
pregnancy by saying that she had a miscarriage shortly after being abducted. Nick
doesn't believe this story, and tells her so, but he plays along with the story in front
of the elated media because it confirms his own innocence. Amy's medical
examination corroborates her story and while some of the detectives see suspicious
holes in her account, she is able to defuse further questioning by accusing them of
being incompetent and having been fixated on pursuing the wrong suspect.
Alone with Nick, Amy admits to the whole story, including deliberately
murdering Desi and faking her escape just as she faked her abduction. He is horrified
and disgusted, and wants to reveal the story to the world. Amy, however, has been
careful to ensure that there is no record of this confession, and she also still has
fodder for blackmail. The diary was never revealed as fake, and in it Amy documents
an instance that strongly suggests Nick poisoned her with antifreeze. To further
corroborate it, she did in fact consume antifreeze and saved and froze some of her

vomit. If this evidence is revealed and tested, she can accuse Nick of attempted
murder. Supported by Margo, Tanner, and Detective Boney, all of whom by this
point believe that Amy faked her disappearance, Nick decides to wait.
Amy and Nick continue in a stalemate, warily living together. Amy begins
writing a memoir about the public story of her experiences, which she knows will
make her a lot of money. Nick, still angry, begins writing his own memoir revealing
the truth about her. He is shocked when Amy reveals that she is pregnant: she had
herself inseminated with sperm frozen from the couple's fertility treatments. She
makes it clear that if Nick ever betrays her, she will turn the child against him, and
feeling protective of their future son, Nick gives up any hope of revealing Amy's
deceit and accepts that the two of them are stuck with each other. He deletes his
book. The two build a fragile relationship, and the novel ends with the impending
birth of their child, who is due on their wedding anniversary, one year after Amy's
disappearance.
However, the ending makes it clear that Amy's sociopathic need for power,
and Nick's disgust with her, will never go away

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Leading Character’s Sociopathic

FLYNN’S GONE GIRL

FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA

Universitas Sumatera Utara

I, INTANTA A. MANURUNG, DECLARE THAT I AM THE SOLE AUTHOR

Date: October 10th, 2017

NAME : INTANTA A. MANURUNG

TITLE OF THESIS : LEADING CHARACTER’S SOCIOPATHIC

BEHAVIOUR IN FLYNN’S GONE GIRL

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Date : October10th, 2017

finishing this thesis entitled: Leading Character‘s Sociopathic Behaviour of Flynn‘s

encouragement and advice from people around me.

appreciation to all those incredible people.

1. My beloved parents, the reasons behind all good things that I do in my

always give me pray, encourage, love, spirit, motivation and patience

much for everything.

2. My dearest brother Syaloom Haholongan Manurung. Friend to fight,

brother that I have.

me. Such a blessing to have a family like you all.

Dr. Deliana, M.Hum, as the Head of Department of English; Rahmadsyah

Rangkuti, M.A, Ph.D. as the Secretary of Department of English, for the

help suggestion, guidance, solutions and supports related to complete this

thesis and other administrative supports.

5. Dr. Siti Norma Nasution, M.Hum, as my Supervisor and Dra. Diah

Rahayu Pratama, M.Pd. as my Co-supervisor who had guided and

advice and valuable input.

6. Dr. H. Syahron Lubis, M.A, as my academic supervisor whom I always

ask for advice and suggestion during my academic years.

excessive and valuable knowledge and their contribution during my

8. My beloved friends Fathiyah Zubaidi, Oryza Savitri Lubis, Tria

Kemuning, Geraldi Tarigan, M. Rezy Anugerah, Agung Perdana Putra,

Randy Utama Siregar (SHAUTIEN). Thanks for all the memories we

and I will always keep that in my mind.

companion and my history during study in Department of English.

helping me during finishing this thesis; my favorite junior Dwi, Oliv,

member of ―Hipertensi‖ gang; my little sister Christine Hutahaean, thank

and all the memories we shared together; my beloved yet so annoying

This thesis entitles “Leading Character’s Sociopathic Behaviour in Flynn’s Gone

Keyword: Novel Gone Girl, psychology, sociopathic behaviour, social

Skripsi ini berjudul“Leading Character’s Sociopathic Behaviour in Flynn’s Gone

Kata kunci: Novel Gone Girl, psikologi, perilaku sosiopat, dampak

AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ................................................................... v

1.1 Background of the Study

Basically, sociopath is the type of mental disorder caused by neighborhood

factor. There is no one born in sociopath, because sociopath often causes by

traumatic because of sexual harassment, emotional violence, physic violence,

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aggression and verbal violence.

The sociopath is the people who showed antisocial behaviour especially be

People with sociopathic behaviour tend to be attractive, displayed the

disease, the personality disorder of sociopath involve the history of persistent

treated, this personality disorder can be continued until maturity.

us to sniff out the traces of their crimes.