Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder

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Autor(a) principal: Vasconcelos, Samuel da Silveira Silva de
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/74143
Resumo: This paper consists of a behavioral analysis of the monster in the book “Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus” written by Mary Shelley. As a fictional character, data provided by the author are used for the analysis. The purpose of the study is to answer two questions, “Could the creature be considered as either a psychopath or a sociopath?” and “Can the creature be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder?”. As a context for the readers, a summary of the story was included in this paper. The main tools used in this paper to answer both questions are the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM-5 regarding the antisocial personality disorder and the Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised or PCL-R, both tools have several criteria to assess a correct diagnosis. And as such, some adjustments were deemed necessary before using the tools, which are highly effective when used by trained professionals. Furthermore, the methodology used in this study is divided into three parts. The first part used the used the DSM-5 criteria to answer the second main question, the second part assessed whether the creature could be considered a psychopath using the PCL-R methodology. And the third part consisted of a collection of 20 excerpts taken from the source material to work as a direct form of analysis by identifying psychopathic and sociopathic traits directly from the book using the theoretical literature collected for this paper. The results were not completely successful as the only method that obtained a positive response was the first one. The second method failed to obtain the same success by a good margin. Finally, the third method was rendered insufficient by itself, but it showed valuable evidence to corroborate with both hypotheses (questions) showing that the monster presented traces of psychopathy and sociopathy.
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spelling Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorderFrankensteinMary ShelleyAntisocial personality disorderPsychopathySociopathyThis paper consists of a behavioral analysis of the monster in the book “Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus” written by Mary Shelley. As a fictional character, data provided by the author are used for the analysis. The purpose of the study is to answer two questions, “Could the creature be considered as either a psychopath or a sociopath?” and “Can the creature be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder?”. As a context for the readers, a summary of the story was included in this paper. The main tools used in this paper to answer both questions are the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM-5 regarding the antisocial personality disorder and the Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised or PCL-R, both tools have several criteria to assess a correct diagnosis. And as such, some adjustments were deemed necessary before using the tools, which are highly effective when used by trained professionals. Furthermore, the methodology used in this study is divided into three parts. The first part used the used the DSM-5 criteria to answer the second main question, the second part assessed whether the creature could be considered a psychopath using the PCL-R methodology. And the third part consisted of a collection of 20 excerpts taken from the source material to work as a direct form of analysis by identifying psychopathic and sociopathic traits directly from the book using the theoretical literature collected for this paper. The results were not completely successful as the only method that obtained a positive response was the first one. The second method failed to obtain the same success by a good margin. Finally, the third method was rendered insufficient by itself, but it showed valuable evidence to corroborate with both hypotheses (questions) showing that the monster presented traces of psychopathy and sociopathy.Andrade, Paulo Roberto Nogueira deVasconcelos, Samuel da Silveira Silva de2023-08-25T13:04:12Z2023-08-25T13:04:12Z2023info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesisapplication/pdfVASCONCELOS, Samuel da Silveira Silva de. Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder. Orientador: Paulo Roberto Nogueira de Andrade. 2023. 38 f. TCC (Graduação em Letras/Inglês) - Curso de Graduação em Letras/Inglês, Centro de Humanidades, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2023.http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/74143porreponame:Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)instname:Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)instacron:UFCinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2023-08-25T13:44:51Zoai:repositorio.ufc.br:riufc/74143Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttp://www.repositorio.ufc.br/ri-oai/requestbu@ufc.br || repositorio@ufc.bropendoar:2024-09-11T19:03:05.811881Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) - Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder
title Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder
spellingShingle Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder
Vasconcelos, Samuel da Silveira Silva de
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Antisocial personality disorder
Psychopathy
Sociopathy
title_short Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder
title_full Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder
title_fullStr Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder
title_full_unstemmed Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder
title_sort Creature Frankenstein: a study on antisocial personality disorder
author Vasconcelos, Samuel da Silveira Silva de
author_facet Vasconcelos, Samuel da Silveira Silva de
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Andrade, Paulo Roberto Nogueira de
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vasconcelos, Samuel da Silveira Silva de
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Antisocial personality disorder
Psychopathy
Sociopathy
topic Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Antisocial personality disorder
Psychopathy
Sociopathy
description This paper consists of a behavioral analysis of the monster in the book “Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus” written by Mary Shelley. As a fictional character, data provided by the author are used for the analysis. The purpose of the study is to answer two questions, “Could the creature be considered as either a psychopath or a sociopath?” and “Can the creature be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder?”. As a context for the readers, a summary of the story was included in this paper. The main tools used in this paper to answer both questions are the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM-5 regarding the antisocial personality disorder and the Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised or PCL-R, both tools have several criteria to assess a correct diagnosis. And as such, some adjustments were deemed necessary before using the tools, which are highly effective when used by trained professionals. Furthermore, the methodology used in this study is divided into three parts. The first part used the used the DSM-5 criteria to answer the second main question, the second part assessed whether the creature could be considered a psychopath using the PCL-R methodology. And the third part consisted of a collection of 20 excerpts taken from the source material to work as a direct form of analysis by identifying psychopathic and sociopathic traits directly from the book using the theoretical literature collected for this paper. The results were not completely successful as the only method that obtained a positive response was the first one. The second method failed to obtain the same success by a good margin. Finally, the third method was rendered insufficient by itself, but it showed valuable evidence to corroborate with both hypotheses (questions) showing that the monster presented traces of psychopathy and sociopathy.
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