Psychopaths and Sociopaths explain antisocial personality disorders. The terms have a pattern of disregarding the safety and rights of others. Psychopaths
‘Passing Through‘ is a story of a person who possesses these antisocial traits. It will help the reader understand what sociopaths and psychopaths feel like in real life.
So how are Psychopaths and Sociopaths Different?
- A sociopath has a feeling of empathy, but weak and limited. They tend to react violently each time they face the consequences of their actions. However, a psychopath has little or no conscience. They can follow any social convention as far as it suits their needs.
- A sociopath is always clear that they don’t care about how they feel about others. A psychopath pretends to care about how others feel. Thus, they will always show cold-hearted behavior.
- A sociopath tends to be quick in anger and impulsive, but a psychopath fails to recognize the pain of others.
- Sociopaths can recognize what they do and make their behaviors rational. On the other hand, psychopaths will engage in shallow and fake relationships.
- Sociopaths will always keep normal work and family. But a psychopath will cover their criminal acts on their own.
- Sociopaths form genuine emotional attachments towards others. But they find it hard to develop emotions. However, a psychopath can’t create such ties but they will love people in their way.
What is the Evidence of a Sociopath and a Psychopath?
A study of psychopathy shows that these people tend to have unstable lives. It could be from their families or communities that one grew. Sociopathy also relates to abuses at a young age, which can be physical violence and parental instability.
In the ‘Mindless‘ book, Melvin undergoes a lot of abuse from Adele Frink. His mother does not care about his health. Melvin had an accident that affected his brain. As a result, she suffered antisocial behavior from the pressure.
Similarly, conscience about something wrong done is common. A psychopath will not feel remorseful for doing evil, no matter how hurting they are.
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Characters in Thriller Books and Movies
Characters are ideal in thriller books and movies are interesting. It is possible since they have the power to captivate the audience. Psychopathy appears in normal persons. But they are evil creatures within. But this is what makes the novels and movies good with these characters.
Sociopathy shows charm but are cruel. They are also fearless and can manipulate. Their actions make them fun but terrifying at the same time to the audience. They also make a significant memory of characters for thriller movies and novels.
Both psychopaths and sociopaths make excellent characters that everyone likes to watch them act. They display unbridled ID, manipulative acts on people’s personalities that each person keeps a check from in the world.
An example is Elliot Keller in the ‘Passing Through‘ novel. Keller is a serial killer who escapes the prison into a small town. He wants the freedom to continue doing what he loves most, torturing and killing of the innocent.
Since most persons are afraid of hurting others, it is impossible to understand what drives killers to hurt others. The tension in repulsion and seduction always ends, making the novel or movie to have an endless fascination.
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Psychopathy Vs Sociopathy
Psychopathy and sociopathy give the doer power over what an average person cannot. For example, they kill and go unpunished. Although Elliot Keller faces the murder charges of three college girls and assaulting their male companion brutally, hoping he would die but survive, he escaped the death penalty. He starts to plan to escape, which takes him five years.
Sociopathy can define an aggressive person, while psychopathy describes personality traits that one has. Despite this, the common feature lies within the shared diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder within sociopaths and psychopaths. Psychopathy can relate to the difference in the physiological brain.
Sociopaths are a product of their environment. On the contrary, psychopathy is an inheritance from birth. It makes psychopaths have difficulty making real emotional attachments. Besides, they rarely feel guilty.
Sociopaths are much more likely to have erratic and impulsive behaviors. Being quickly agitated and angered results in violent outbursts among sociopaths. For this reason, their chance of being apprehended is high.
