What Is Hannibal Character Analysis Essay

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Hannibal is considered a monster that eats people, savoring the flesh of his victims. That he enjoys the fear that he invokes, while coming down on his victim with relish. While ingratiating himself into the lives of people he considered vulgar, he enjoyed putting them in their place. As well-known surgeon, he functioned normally. He enjoyed all the finer things in life. He believed that being the only one who knew everything, made him a superior being. The beginning of Hannibal is very powerful and very moving. The actions of the rogue Nazis were so inhuman that it destroyed a young man’s mind. The mere thought of eating his beloved sister had to be horrifying. It is not difficult to imagine his revulsion, his unimaginable pain. As a person looking in at the tragedy caused by war, it can be imagined that if the mind is not …show more content…

We might be curious, but that does not make us into monsters. I like to know what occurs here in San Antonio and in the world to inform myself of the realities that really occur, to remind myself that there are a lot of weirdo’s and really sick depraved people you have to be on the lookout for. I do understand where Mr. Lancaster might get the impression that we all have a monster within us. Unless he is a trained physiologist, by his statement, I see he might not understand the intricacies of what someone would be thinking. In the last story of Hannibal Lecter, the writer Thomas Harris seems to humanize him more, Hannibal’s beginnings are explained. His fixations are explained by his childhood story of his parents being killed by Nazi’s and his sister being eaten. You get a sense that the writer has softened his views, of what Hannibal is, that he is not completely the monster from the first book. I get the feeling that what he read and what I read are two different

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