Hannibal Lecter

On July 4, 1776, the founding members of the United States declared independence from Great Britain. In this declaration, the earliest form of the United States government promised to secure a set of unalienable rights for all men – the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Today, the United States still strives to secure and protect these values for all American citizens. Via policing and military action, the government confronts and disbands any perceived threats to these…

Jessica Moskowitz Leverett Butts ENGL 2150 16 November 2014 Development of the Ed Gein Trope – Rough Draft Horror struck the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin in 1957 as police officers arrested Ed Gein for murdering two local women. Police officers later discovered the gruesome contents of his home: decapitated and skinned bodies, preserved organs, skin lamps, skull bowls, and more. These horrifying findings inspired the creation of iconic horror characters: Norman Bates of the Psycho…

The Dark Knight Rises is an American film that played in the year 2012 and was directed by Christopher Nolan. As a kid I always loved superheroes and superhero movies and Batman is definitely one of my favorites. But the story of Batman is definitely not for the faint of heart and is definitely not played by the traditional rules of what a superhero is and what he should be. He is constantly fighting with himself and what he should do but in the end he will have to make the hardest decision of…

Contrasted with motionless Batman**, he was wriggling almost all the time: fixing his clothes, gesticulating at lot, changing seat positions. He made us to feel uncomfortable because of his presence, to lose our focus. Anthony Hopkins, as Dr Hannibal Lecter, barely moved his eyes to create a constant contact with his interlocutor. Although Heath kept the eye contact, it wasn’t still, he kept looking from one side to another, what was even more disturbing than not blinking at all. We start to…

“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.” (Stevenson). Cannibalism, despite its place in man’s deepest nightmares, is not always so and should not be looked down upon simply due to misunderstanding of this ancient practice. Cannibalism has its medical downfalls, however, it also has positive aspects that transcends multiple cultures. Before talking about the positive…

The debate between A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe and been well presented both teams had accurate information to prove whose character was more disturbing than the others. A Rose for Emily is about a character who kills her husband and sleeps with him till her death. As for The Cask of Amontillado this short story is about a friend who gets out of control and kills his friend however, he plans the murder and finds the best way to have his…

Let us take a minute to step outside of ourselves and into an alien society that often goes hidden or forgotten. In this world, the habitants rarely experience the sunrise or sunset, nor do they hear the song of birds or the playful bark of a dog. As annoying as it might seem at first, these persons will never even hear the cry of a toddler as she begs for candy at the grocery store or the halfway-honk of a car horn from the elderly person whose car you almost hit. Those in this alien society…

more graphic and horrifying leading to the execution of terrifying films like Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. We can further see Double Indemnity’s impacts with the popularization of anti-heroes like Tyler Durden, Hannibal Lecter and television’s Walter White, and Dexter…

And yet it is still the most widely recognized mental disorder associated with serial killing. One infamous example is the fictional cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and his primary inspiration: Robert John Maudsley. Born in Liverpool in June 1953, Maudsley is responsible for 4 murders and is now officially recognized as one of Britain’s most dangerous prisoners. Most of his early were spent in an orphanage…

A Midsummer’s Nightmare Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream suggests that its relationships are happy ones, but this suggestion is complicated. In fact, the interplay between each of the couples indicates a nefarious quality present in all these relationships. This sinister quality can become even undeniably present in productions of this play. Brown writes that while scholars cannot consider any performance to be an authoritative adaptation, every performance brings interpretative…