Alim Imam Muttaqin Wahiduddin , 2211411033 (2016) THE MAIN CHARACTER’S NERVOUSNESS IN POE'S SHORT STORIES THE TELL-TALE HEART AND THE BLACK CAT. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study is to reveal nervousness as represented in Poe’s short stories: The Black Cat and The Tell Tale Heart. By using descriptive qualitative research method, the data were processed qualitatively and explained descriptively to answer the research question. The data were collected through library and website research to find the previous studies and supporting data related to the issue of this study. I employed Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis theory to find out what happened to the main characters’ psyche and to reveal the signs, symptoms and impacts of antisocial personality disorder through the main characters in Poe’s short stories: The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart. The results of the study show that nervousness in Poe’s short stories is revealed through some aspects, they are characters and conflicts. Essentially, the main characters of both short stories show signs and symptoms such as disregard for right and wrong, persistent lying or deceit to exploit others, being callous, cynical and disrespectful of others through the reflections of their unstable inner minds and unexplainable flaw in their personalities. Those conditions create fatal action such main character becomes the aggressor or assailant by attacking an innocent victim.

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