The charcter of Hannibal Lecter has always frightened and intrigued me. This character has plagued the nightmares of men and women since the beginning of his creation. First appearing in the novel, Silence Of The Lambs, his complex character has sparked the interests of many. Hannibal Lecter is better understood if one knows that he is a fictional character in novels and movies, he is based upon a true representation of a sociopath, and his behaviour and that of other sociopaths, fascinates today's
Brown July 19, 2015 CCJ 4933 Profile Paper In Thomas Harris’s 1988 novel Silence of the Lambs, Harris describes a serial killer whose method of operation is the killing of overweight women so that he may be able to reproduce the perfect bodysuit to transform him into a woman. In the film and novel, the well-known and feared serial killer, Hannibal Lecter is shown to be helping with the case to capture the man they have dubbed “Buffalo Bill” because Lecter knew of the man through a previous patient