Right to silence

Suspense is an element of fiction building on foreshadowing and other aspects of fiction that creates a tense, anxious, or excitement. I chose the film Silence of the Lambs to describe suspense because this film in particular touched me in a suspenseful way. The basis of the movie in itself is suspenseful; police investigations and attempts at stopping a serial killer who is at large creates an exciting atmosphere. Its themes also create some suspenseful aspects to the film that are also…

“SCHOOL PRAYER UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BAN PRAYER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and SCHOOL PRAYER HELD ILLEGAL.” (The Battle for School Prayer, pg. 77). If the First Amendment came up today, it wouldn’t pass. By today’s standards, the First Amendment would be written very differently. In the 1770’s, God was included in the constitution. If it was written today, God would be excluded from it. Prayer should be allowed in schools because the constitution never intended for prayer to be left out of schools, many…

“It was like there was two Ed Gein's. One during the day, and one at night digging up the graves.” Ed Gein was known for grave robbing and the murder of two women. I chose to research Ed Gein because, for some reason I find forensic related things interesting. I like researching murders, mysteries, urban legends, etcetera. It’s still hard to believe that no one ever suspected him doing anything like what he did. It kind of seems like a fictional thing. It’s scary that someone you trust and least…

The tool of psychological profiling has gained a lot of notoriety both in fictional media as well as real life for its ability to aid in the capture of dangerous psychopathic serial killers. This type of offender is unique when compared to other criminals because financial motive is usually not the primary reason for murder. This is because what they seek to attain is psychological and sexual gratification with certain types. (LaBrode, 2007) Ultimately, why they all kill is to experience power…

Autres Temps by Edith Wharton demonstrates how society struggles to break free from old, familiar traditions even when it strives for social changes. For example, past social habits especially have a significant and pivotal influence on the way the people of the society depicted in the text carry themselves. Wharton’s employment of evasive language, coupled with non-verbal communication, reflects the society’s perpetuation of outdated customs and its inability to leave the past behind. Wharton,…

Clarice Starling, an agent of the FBI is with the help of another killer trying to save a woman from a psychopath. Throughout the movie, she undergoes series of transformational changes that eventually makes her develop the skills necessary to arrest and capture the killer. The paper explores some of the concepts of symbolism and metaphoric figurative techniques in the film. In the literal interpretation of Anthony Hopkins movie (1991), the Lambs are considered as beautiful, innocent, and…

The Silence of the Lambs is a film about Hannibal Lector, a crazed psychiatrist who is serving life in prison for murder and cannibalism. The FBI believes that Lector may have information about a murderer who is killing young women and skinning them. The FBI sends a young investigative student, Clarice Starling, to talk to Lector. Being a psychiatrist, Lector is able to question Clarice just as she questions him. In the end, Lector escapes only to pursue an old acquaintance and Clarice solves…

The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) is a story of a young agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) crack the Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) case to cure her childhood trauma and calm down the lamb in her soul. In order to solve the criminal case, she meets Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in the cell and want to find some useful clues. At the end of the film, Buffalo Bill was killed by Clarice, and the hostage is out of danger, but Hannibal escaped and is following his next target……

The novel "The Silence of the Lambs" will have you on the edge of your seat the entire way through. It includes a strong female lead, by the name of Clarice Starling. Clarice is brave, determined, and hard working. She works in a male dominated job, therefore she faces unjust treatment. However, she proves herself to her coworkers when she is assigned to gather information about a serial killer on the loose. She is told to ask a cannibalistic serial killer named Dr. Hannibal Lecter questions and…

As cases start to arise, parental abuse starts to become a common recurring factor. One of the most famous American serial killer, Edward Gein an atrociously notorious grave digger, and the serial killer was known for his mutilation of human body parts and scavenging graves of those already dead to manifest their body parts to create himself, essentially a new skin. At first, he appears to be a psychotic gentleman that hacks and engulfs his victim, however, his problems seem to spur from an…