Motives Of Murder In Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places (2009): A Humanistic Psychological Perspective

This research focuses on the identification issue of motives of murder in Dark Places (2009) novel by Gillian Flynn. The theory is used in this research is humanistic psychology by Abraham Maslow. The type of this study is used qualitative descriptive. The method of collecting data in this research is used note taking technique. This study used two data, namely primary data and secondary data. Dark Places novel by Gillian Flynn is the primary data source. Online journals, thesis and research paper that related with issue motive of murder are the secondary data. The purposes of this research are as follows to identify the character’s motives of committing the murder, to describe the motives of murder depicted in the novel and to reveal the reason why the author addressed the motive of murder in the novel. The results of this study are as follows (1) there are three motives of murder such as need for food, safety from fear and safety from anxiety, (2) the author depicted issue motives of murder through character, setting, event, and style, (3) the author addressed the issue motive of murder because the author wants to create a novel about dark things and trouble female character