The Silence Of Lambs Character Analysis

There is no pattern to how the fitful, abominable man known as Buffalo Bill, chooses his victims. But one thing is clear, all his victims, women, are found dead with their skin peeled off their bodies. Clarice Starling, who is just a behavioral science trainee now has to track down this awful man, but not without having to ask for the help of the renowned Doctor Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter who ate nine of his physcology patients before being arrested . Both versions of The Silence of Lambs contain the moral that to succeed you must learn how to work with people around you and trust them, yet in the book, Clarice has a much more hidden past that she attempts to cover up, which is why she is so distrusting. In the book, Clarice has to learn to overcome the challenges of isolating herself to save an innocent girl, but in the movie Clarice is already trusting of the people around her, as she is much more suited with who she is. Taking into notice the time that the book is written and the fact that they work for the FBI makes Clarice a very unique character in a profession filled mostly with men, for example, at one point Special Agent Jack Crawford says “Sheriff, this kind of a sex crime has some aspects that I’d rather say to you just between us men, you understand what …show more content…
Compared to the book where is moral is seen as more of a growing, bettering of oneself, which Clarice has to actively grow and discover her true demons to save innocent lives. We as humans cannot isolate ourselves from the outside world, and even hide from ourselves, and expect that in some way we will be able to help other people be better. We have to learn that sometimes that best thing you can do is to actually let someone into your life if you want to get