Hannibal Lecter

Introduction

Hannibal Lecter, the serial murderer that was created by author Thomas Harris has been able to capture the public's fascination the way none other has done in recent years.

In the two novels, Lecter, locked in a cell, advises the Federal Bureau of Investigation on how to catch a serial murderer who is currently active. He is not wanted by the FBI (Harris, pp.114). Here, Lecter retouched face by a plastic surgery, takes a new identity and moves to Florence, where Clarice Starling, and a veteran special agent, fails to follow the trail hoping to stop the wily psychoanalyst meat loving human.

This paper presents an analysis of the character of Lecter Hannibal and his modus of operandi. The paper captures the various aspects of the character and offers a brief description of the idea and concept behind it.

Description

The picture shows Dr. Lecter Harris is very real and frightening. His eyes are extremely bright light brown, your voice may sound firm and yet soft, perfectly aligned teeth are small and white. It is a mature man, small and strong moves with unusual grace and absolute silence. It has six fingers on one hand, one of the rare cases of polydactyly in which the index finger appears twice. Their sense of smell is excellently developed. This is demonstrated in The Silence of the Lambs in his first meeting with the young FBI agent to sniff through some holes in his cell and plate glass and guess the brand of perfume she uses regularly, even though that day it had set (Harris, pp.112).

Before his arrest was a well known psychiatrist and patron in Baltimore, Maryland. Born into an aristocratic family in Europe, stressing in his childhood he suffered a major trauma during the Second World War who lost his sister. Fourteen have been attributed to homicide, but authorities suspect there are probably others.

These are "facts" that Thomas Harris has invented, but has taken a real model to characterize the dark side of Lecter? Harris rarely gives interviews and prefers to let his work speak for itself. He knows he made some research when he wrote the books in the Behavioral Sciences Unit of the FBI (now called Support Unit Research) (Grieg, p.29). He learned of the profiles data about the habits and characteristics of serial murderers. Since the author does not tell us anything about this, perhaps we can build a profile of what we know about Lecter that is mentioned in the novels, not in the movie version, and compare with other true serial murderers.

Possibly Hannibal Lecter is the best villain who has given the literature (and hence the film) in recent decades. The change compared to other villains of the eighties and nineties is probably due to the excellent performance that made him Anthony Hopkins film, away from repetitive psychopaths that proliferated at the time (Mike Myers, Freddy Krueger, etc.) giving it a captivating while lethal personality.

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