Obsessive Love Disorder Portrayed Through Male Main Character in Ana Huang's Twisted Lies Novel

Obsessive Love Disorder Portrayed Through Male Main Character in Ana Huang's Twisted Lies Novel

• By Amalia, Alvia;
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This thesis analyze the obsessive love disorder experienced by Christian Herper, the male main character in Ana Huang's novel, Twisted Lies. The objectives of this thesis are to know the symptoms of obsessive love, the causes of obsessive love and the effects of obsessive love in Ana Huang's Twisted Lies novel. The writer used descriptive qualitative method. To analyze the novel the writer read the novel several times and uses the theories from books and journal. The result of this study are the sympyoms of male main character having obsessive love disorder are making stella his idealized lover, delusional jealousy, and pursuit. The causes of male main character having obsessive love disorder is abandonment. Meanwhile, the effects of male main character having obsessive love disorder is isolation.

• Katakunci Literature, Obsessive Love Disorder, Novel
• URL https://doi.org/10.59966
• Penerbit Jurnal Kalimasada Grup, Cirebon Jawa Barat

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