Hannibal Lecter Analysis Essay - 2561 Words Please sign up to read full document. Text Preview SUMMARY This is based from the fictional movies (Hannibal Rising, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lamb and Hannibal) about the life of Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Hannibal Lecter was born at Lithuania with his parents and with his younger sister named Mischa. When Dr. Hannibal was six years old, at the time of World War 2, a group of German people running away from the Russian Military had shelled to his family’s property and from this scenario, his parents died with their servants. During the cold season, as time passed by, the German people starts to crave for food especially they are craving for meat, they remembered that there was a child inside their shelter and they decided to killed and cannibalized Mischa. The Young Hannibal witnessed the horrible murder but he managed to escape from a traumatic event where it gives a shape to the rest of Dr. Hannibal’s life. After the traumatic event of his life, he was put in an orphanage and somehow he is muted and silent because of what happened from the past.

No sympathized with his situation and he was humiliated from one of the employees, as the employee said to the Young Hannibal, “He’s not mute at night, he screams well enough.” Where the Young Hannibal was pissed off and attacked the employee using a fork, which it caused bleeding at the right hand of the said employee. As days goes on, frustration came along and it was added from his feelings of longing and missing Mischa. At the age of sixteen, after the incident between the Young Hannibal and one of the employees of the orphanage, after the night where he was transferred on a dirty and ventilated room, he finally decided to leave the orphanage and travels from Lithuania to France where he met and stayed with his Auntie Murasaki. At France, he went to school, as physician, which he is a remarkable student, an intelligent and wise learner. Time goes by but the memories of the past is still stock on his mind, his revenge for Mischa, the aggressiveness, and the eagerness to kill those people who cannibalized his sister. His vengeance had never been erased, and the intimacy for his Auntie doesn’t make any sense to stop him for showing his motives. Early 70’s, Dr.

Hannibal moved to Baltimore when he is twenty years of age and he started to practice his psychiatric career with his own way. For a long while, he transferred from another country where he turns to be a part of an institution for mental health which it provides aids and counseling. Many years later, Dr. Hannibal kill his victims in violence way and, most of his clients are one of those victims. All of them were partly stained and he confessed of eating some parts of his victims.He was captured after his conversation and incident between him and Agent Graham. During his stay at the hospital after being captured, Dr. Hannibal would help the FBI with the two different cases. First is when Agent Graham came out to give help as he retires after the incident between the two of them, he set an investigation regarding the Tooth Fairy case and he got no choice but to ask help from the lethal mad man, Dr. Hannibal. After five years, an acting director of FBI named Jack Crawford sent an FBI Trainee Clarice Starling to Dr. Hannibal where Starling thought that she was there for class homework, on the other side, she ended up getting him to give help about the Buffalo Bill Case. Dr.

Hannibal helped Graham and Starling with the same instances but in a way of giving and using riddles for them figure it out by their own. While the case of Buffalo Bill is still on process, Dr. Hannibal had been transferred to Memphis, few days later, he escaped from the said place. Dr. Hannibal change his name and identity with the name of Dr. Fell and he live like nothing matters. At the latter part, Dr. Hannibal targeted men where he considered mean and rude like Pazzi, one of the corrupt cop who is secretly investigating him, he hanged from the balcony of his house and Mason Verger, the only... Please sign up to read full document.

YOU MAY ALSO FIND THESE DOCUMENTS HELPFUL Hannibal Lecter | Hannibal Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Lecter was born in Lithuania in 1933 to a wealthy aristocratic family; his father, simply known as Count Lecter , was a descendant of the warlord " Hannibal the Grim " (1365-1428) who defeated the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Grunwald , in 1410, while his mother, Madame Simonetta Sforza-Lecter , descended from both the Visconti and Sforza families who separately ruled Milan for a total of 250 years. He is the eighth in his blood-line to bear his ancestor's forename. [2] Lecter may have also been descended from Giuliano Bevisangue ("Bevisangue" means "Blood-Drinker"), a feared and ruthless figure in 12th-century Tuscany , and from the Machiavelli bloodline. Lecter himself would pursue this subject, to determine from the records of the Capponi Library if there was any true connection to Bevisangue, but he was unable to answer the question.

Lecter was a distant cousin of the artist Balthus . [3] Childhood and Bereavement Edit When Lecter was six years old, he was introduced to his sister, Mischa , who was born in 1939. The two formed a strong, affectionate bond. When he was eight, his family left their estate to live in a lodge in the forest in order to escape Hitler 's Blitzkrieg . Three years later, his parents, tutor, and family retainers were killed by a German bomber attempting to disable a Soviet tank (decades later while flying between Europe and the United States, Hannibal dreamed of being six at the time of these events). [2] The lodge was invaded by a group of former Lithuanian collaborators turned looters. Lecter and Mischa were held captive by said looters. Mischa was cannibalized, but Lecter escaped, only to be severely traumatized by his sister's death and was rendered mute. Mischa's death would haunt Lecter for the rest of his life; Hannibal explains that it destroyed his faith in God, and thereafter he believed that there was no real justice in the world.

[2] After the looters fled, he wandered the forests until he was found by a tank crew. The soldiers cut the shackle from his neck, which had stripped away pieces of his skin, leaving a scar that would never truly heal. He was also carrying, at this time, his father's binoculars: the binoculars stayed with him for many years and featured again later. [2] The Soviets returned Lecter to his family's castle, which had been converted into an orphanage. The war had many lasting effects on the children, and many of them became bullies. While living there, he frequently attacked and severely wounded many of his fellow orphans, but only those who bullied, hurt or insulted others. Lecter called on his memories of the leader of the group of looters, Vladis Grutas , to inspire the anger necessary to hurt the bullies. He was well-behaved around the younger orphans, often letting them tease him a little, letting them believe him to be a crazed deaf-mute, and giving them his treats that he rarely received.

[2] Adoption and Revenge Edit When Lecter was 13 years old, his uncle (the new Count Robert Lecter ) brought him to his home in France. He formed a close relationship with his aunt, the Lady Murasaki , with whom he instantly fell in love. He was educated at home on his uncle's estate on the banks of the Essonne ; his uncle encouraged him to take up painting while his aunt taught him aspects of Japanese culture. Still mute and disturbed by his sister's death, he saw the psychiatrist, Doctor Rufin . At age 13, he attacked a local butcher, Paul Momund , in retaliation for an obscene insult to his aunt. Robert Lecter died from a heart attack during a further confrontation with Momund. An enraged Lecter then committed his first murder, slashing Momund with a Tanto that had belonged to his aunt's samurai ancestor, Date Masamune. He then beheaded Momund and, after receiving a tip from his aunt's chef whilst they prepared a fish, sliced off his victim's cheeks and ate them, his first willful act of cannibalism. He then presented the decapitated head to Masamune.

The murder brought Lecter to the attention of Inspector Pascal Popil , who intuitively grasped that he was guilty and pressed him to confess. Lecter proved impenetrable, however, even passing a lie detector test; thanks to Lady Murasaki's intervention, he escaped any blame. Following her husband's death, Lady Murasaki moved to a flat in Paris, where Lecter attended a boarding school. Popil, who was fascinated by both Lecter and Lady Murasaki, remained in close contact with them. [2] Lecter excelled at the Lycée and graduated early, becoming the youngest person admitted to a medical school in France, where he was mentored by a Doctor Dumas. He had been alerted to the survival of the Totenkopfs who had held him prisoner, when he found a painting looted from his father's collection for sale in a Paris gallery. [2] In 1951, he returned to Lithuania and the scene of his sister's murder. He excavated the ruins of the lodge where his family died and, upon finding Mischa's remains, gave her a proper burial. He also unearthed the dog-tags of the group of deserters who had killed her.

One member of the group, Enrikas Dortlich , now an officer in the Soviet Border Guards, arrived at the scene intent on killing Lecter. Lecter, however, was not caught off guard and instead murdered Dortlich. Once again, Lecter consumed his victim's cheeks. [2] Dortlich's murder put the group on alert and, due to the similarity of Lecter's first murder, placed him under renewed suspicion from Popil. Grutas dispatched a second member of the group, Zigmas Milko , to eliminate the problem by either bribing Lecter or killing him. Lecter killed Milko instead, drowning him in formaldehyde. Both Popil and Lady Murasaki try to dissuade him from hunting the gang. During a confrontation with Lady Murasaki, Lecter almost had sex with her, but relented at the last minute, claiming he had made a promise to Mischa. He attacked Grutas in his home but Grutas was rescued by his bodyguards. Grutas kidnapped Lady Murasaki and used her as a lure to draw Lecter to his death. Lecter, donning the Tanto, tracked Grutas to his houseboat.

In a final confrontation, Grutas claimed that Lecter too had consumed his sister in broth fed to him by the soldiers, and it was to keep this fact secret that he was killing them. Enraged, Lecter eviscerated him by repeatedly carving his sister's initial into his body. Lady Murasaki was disturbed by his behavior and fled from him even after he told her that he loved her. [2] Popil arrested Lecter for the murders, but there was little incentive for a trial; no evidence could be conclusively tied to him, and all the victims had been slavers and war criminals. His victims' association with the Nazis led Lecter to become something of a cause celebre in France, with communists and students marching for his release. Lady Murasaki visited him one last time while he was being held by the police, and saw that he had become completely emotionless. After receiving references from Doctor Dumas and from the head of the Police Forensic Laboratory, for whom he has worked as a volunteer, Lecter was released. He left France, killing the final member of the group, Bronys Grentz , while on a vacation in Montreal, before returning to his internship in Baltimore.

[2] Career as a psychiatrist Edit Lecter's drawings led to an internship at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where he graduated with a degree in medicine and eventually settled. As written in Red Dragon, Lecter established a psychiatric practice in Baltimore in the 1970s. He became a leading figure in Baltimore society and indulged his extravagant tastes, which he financed by influencing some of his patients to bequeath him large sums of money in their wills. He became world-renowned as a brilliant clinical psychiatrist, but he had nothing but disdain for psychology; he would later say he didn't consider it a science, criticizing it as "puerile", and comment that most psychology departments were filled with "ham radio enthusiasts and other personality-deficient buffs". [4] Killing spree Edit Lecter killed at least nine people before his capture. He also attempted to kill three others, including Will Graham , an FBI profiler, [4] and Mason Verger . Verger went through psychiatric counseling with Lecter as part of a court-order after being convicted of child molestation, and for viciously raping his own sister, Margot, who also went to Lecter for counseling.

Verger invited Lecter to his home in Owings Mills one night after a session. Lecter drugged Verger and suggested he try cutting off his own face with a mirror shard. Verger complied and, again at Lecter's suggestion, fed some of his face to his Dobermans and ate his own nose. Lecter then broke Verger's neck with a rope used for auto-erotic asphyxiation and left him to die. Later, the dogs were taken to an animal shelter to have their stomachs pumped which led to the retrieval of Verger's nose, lips and parts of his forehead; however, the skin graft was unsuccessful. Verger survived, but was left hideously disfigured and forever confined to a life support machine. [3] Benjamin Raspail was Lecter's ninth and final (known) victim in the Chesapeake series before his incarceration. Raspail was a not-so-talented flautist with the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra, and it is believed that Lecter killed him because his musicianship, or lack thereof, spoiled the orchestra's concerts; he was also a patient of Lecter's.

Lecter would claim to Clarice Starling that the reason for Raspail's death was that Lecter "got sick and tired of his whining" during their appointments. Raspail's body would be discovered sitting in a church pew with his thymus and pancreas missing, and his heart pierced. It is believed Lecter served these organs at a dinner party he held for the orchestra's board of directors. The president of the board was later to have developed an alcohol problem and anorexia. Raspail was the former lover of Jame Gumb , who would later be involved in Lecter's life as the serial killer dubbed "Buffalo Bill". [5] Not much is known about his other victims or how they were killed. They can be presumed to have been mutilated and in most cases, eaten. In at least one case, he prepared his victim as an eloquent meal and shared his remains with the victim's fellow musicians. Victims included a person who initially survived, and was taken to a private mental hospital in Denver, Colorado. Others included a bow hunter, a census taker whose liver he ate with "fava beans and a big Amarone", and a Princeton student whom he buried.

Lecter was given sodium amytal by the FBI in the hopes of learning where he buried the student; but Lecter, instead of giving them the location of the buried student, gave them a recipe for potato chip dip, the implication being that the student was in the dip. He had trained himself previously by administering self-hypnosis in case he was ever administered hypnotic drugs. Lecter committed his last three known murders within a nine day span. [4] Since one officer retired after seeing Lecter's basement, it can be presumed that parts of his victims were stored there. Capture Edit Lecter was caught in March or April 1975 by FBI Special Investigator Will Graham. Graham was investigating a series of murders in the Baltimore area committed by a cannibalistic serial killer, and had sought Lecter out after discovering he'd treated one of the victims for a hunting wound. When Graham questioned Lecter at his psychiatric practice, he noticed some antique medical books in his office. Upon seeing these, Graham knew Lecter was the killer he sought; the sixth victim had been killed in his workshop and laced to a pegboard in a manner reminiscent of Wound Man , an illustration used in many early medical books.

Graham realized that the hunting wound that led him to Lecter was similar to one in the illustration which inspired Lecter to further emulate the illustration. Graham left to call the police, but Lecter crept up from behind and stabbed him with a linoleum knife, nearly disemboweling him. However, Graham managed to survive the encounter, while Lecter was then apprehended by FBI agents and Maryland State Troopers. After Lecter's arrest, Graham was briefly committed to a mental institution and retired upon recovering from his wounds. [4] Ironically, the sixth victim that exposed Lecter was not eaten. The courts found Lecter insane; this spared him the death penalty. He was instead sent to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane for nine consecutive life terms, under administrator Frederick Chilton . Many of the families of his victims pursued lawsuits against Lecter to have their files destroyed. The FBI exhumed the graves of four patients who had died under Lecter's care for further investigation into the cause of their deaths. He was nicknamed "Hannibal the Cannibal" in the National Tattler, a tabloid that also published unauthorized photos of Graham in the hospital after being attacked by Lecter.

Another officer retired from the FBI after being the first to discover Lecter's basement. Lecter's electroencephalogram (EEG) showed an unusual pattern and, given his history, was ultimately branded "a pure sociopath" by Chilton, although this was because they did not know what to call him. Many in the field of psychiatry labeled him a "monster". The National Tattler described Lecter's crimes as "unspeakable practices". [5] Incarceration Edit Lecter, while in custody, was said to be "far too sophisticated" for most forms of psychological evaluation, especially as he enjoyed staying abreast of all of the latest developments in his field. Since he knew how the tests worked, he could easily come up with the typical answers that would brand him as not being psychologically disturbed, and he also mocked the psychiatrists' attempts to profile him by folding their tests into origami. [5] Lecter was a model patient until the afternoon of July 8, 1976. After complaining of chest pains, he was taken to the infirmary.

After his restraints were removed for his electrocardiogram (ECG) he attacked a nurse, tearing out an eye, dislocating her jaw, and biting out her tongue and eating it. Chilton would later note that Lecter's pulse never went above 85 beats per minute "even when he swallowed [her tongue]." During the struggle with the orderlies, his shoulder was dislocated. Following the incident, Lecter was treated very carefully by the hospital staff, often outfitted with heavy restraints, a straitjacket and muzzle, and transported only when strapped to a hand-truck. His cell consisted of a double barrier, the first being standard bars and the second a nylon net stretched across. Despite this high security measures, Lecter managed to create a handcuff key from two pens left in his cell by visitors. [5] Chilton and Lecter's relationship was marked by mutual hatred; Chilton's status as a psychologist, his mediocrity and inflated self-importance offended Lecter, who often humiliated his keeper; while Lecter's constant mockery and elusiveness infuriated Chilton, who punished him by removing his books and toilet seat.

At the end of Red Dragon, Lecter diagnosed this form of punishment as indicative of the damnation of society by half-measures: "Any rational society would kill me, or give me my books." By contrast, Lecter reached a mutual respect with his primary caregiver and warden, Barney Matthews , and the two often shared thoughts over Barney's correspondence courses. During the investigation of Buffalo Bill, the two would also discuss Clarice Starling. It is also implied at the end of the novel and of the film adaptation that Lecter seeks revenge on Chilton for the mistreatment that he endured at Chesapeake. [5] During his stay in Baltimore State Hospital, Lecter would help with two FBI cases. Graham came out of retirement in 1978 to offer his insight on the "Tooth Fairy" case and upon arriving at a dead end, went to Lecter for help,, but before Graham went into retirement. Lecter gave Graham some valuable insights into the Tooth Fairy, but upon learning about the case, secretly sent a coded message to the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, to kill Graham and his family (which would later result in Graham's permanent disfigurement).

[4] Escape Edit Five years later, Jack Crawford sent FBI trainee Clarice Starling to Lecter to administer a psychological questionnaire. Starling, initially assuming the assignment was related to her studies, ended up getting him to help the FBI in the Buffalo Bill case. In both of these cases, Lecter used wordplay and subtle clues to help Graham and Starling arrive at the conclusions themselves. [5] Buffalo Bill's last kidnappee was Catherine Martin , daughter of Senator Ruth Martin . Lecter told Chilton he would reveal Buffalo Bill's real name to Martin and was promptly flown to Memphis, Tennessee, and held at the Shelby County Courthouse. During his stay in Memphis, Lecter lied to Martin, giving her the fake name "William Rubin," or "Billy Rubin". (Bilirubin is a pigment found in feces. It is the same color as Chilton's hair, Lecter's hint that the name was fake. The film adaptation changed the name to "Louis Friend," an anagram for "iron sulfide" - fool's gold.) Starling then visited Lecter at his makeshift cell, and he gave her some final clues before making a bloody escape, killing two police officers during the ordeal.

He escaped by making a "mask" from the face of one of the officers, donning the officer's uniform and pretending to be his own still-living victim so that he would be hurried away by ambulance while the authorities hunted for him. [5] He also murdered two paramedics and a touirst, stealing the latter's clothes and identity. Life on the Run Edit After plastic surgery and the removal of a distinctive sixth finger, Lecter relocated in Florence, Italy. Lecter avoided reconstruction of his nose to protect his uncanny perception of fragrances. In Florence, he took the pseudonym "Dr. Fell," possibly a reference to the Tom Brown translation of Martial's epigram "Non amo te, Sabidi" ("I do not love thee, Doctor Fell / The reason why, I cannot tell." Fell also means "cruel" or "fierce") As Dr. Fell, Lecter's dazzling charm and expertise won him the recently vacated position of museum curator; Lecter had, of course, murdered the position's previous occupant. [5] Lecter's identity would be discovered by Florence detective Rinaldo Pazzi seven years after his escape from Memphis.

Lecter had been going by the false name Dr. Fell and Pazzi, who had been disgraced when he bungled the " Il Mostro " case, saw a chance for redemption when he realized Dr. Fell's true identity. Pazzi struck a deal with Lecter's sole surviving victim, Mason Verger to get the doctor alive so that Verger could exact his revenge by feeding Lecter to a group of specially trained boars. In his efforts to capture Lecter, Pazzi found himself the doctor's prisoner, and he informed Lecter of his plot. After disemboweling and hanging Pazzi, Lecter returned to the United States. Both Verger and Starling would hunt him, hoping to get to him before the other. Lecter was captured by Verger's men, but Starling rescued him. In the ensuing fight, Verger's men shot her with two darts filled with sedatives. Lecter carried her away from the boars and convinced Margot Verger to kill her brother. Lecter left a voice message claiming responsibility for Verger's death.

[5] Lecter kept Starling in total isolation during the next few months, subjecting her to various conditioning techniques in order to systematically replace Starling's memories and personality and make her believe she was Mischa. After breaking Starling down, Lecter kidnapped her nemesis, Paul Krendler, who was trying to discredit her, as a final test. At the rented home that Lecter was living in, Lecter performed a craniotomy on a drugged Krendler and tastefully prepared and shared his brains with Starling and Krendler himself while Krendler was still alive. [5] However, Lecter's plan to brainwash Starling ultimately failed, as he utterly underestimated her strong will; Starling refused to have her own personality sublimated, mocking his efforts to turn her into his sister. Then, she exposed her breast to Lecter and seduced him. [5] The couple then vanished. In 1993, Lecter's former caretaker, Barney Matthews, spotted the two in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

It is stated on the last page of the novel that both Lecter and Starling were capable of murder at any time; in essence, whatever of Lecter's conditioning took created a "counterpart" of himself in Starling. [5] Characteristics Edit The relatively short relationship between Graham and Lecter is marked by mutual hatred. By the end of Red Dragon, Lecter is directly responsible for ruining Graham's life twice - nearly causing the deaths of Graham's wife and stepson as well. Prior to Red Dragon, Graham had only met Lecter twice, both times very briefly, for Graham to ask Lecter routine questions; however, during their second meeting, Graham realized that Lecter was the killer he'd been seeking. When Graham left to call in reinforcements, Lecter snuck up behind Graham, gutted him, and escaped for a brief period before authorities ultimately caught him. This was only the first time that Lecter would cause Graham's hospitalization; the second time would be by proxy, through Francis Dolarhyde. After his life was ruined for the second time, Graham sank into an alcoholic depression in Florida.

Eventually Jack Crawford and the others at the FBI, along with everyone else, stopped visiting because they saw that Will was killing himself and there was nothing they could do - it was too hard on them to see this empty shell of what Graham used to be. Clarice Starling Edit While Graham was the protagonist of Red Dragon only, Clarice Starling is the protagonist of both The Silence Of The Lambs and Hannibal. Starling and Lecter's very long romance began with Starling's assignment from Jack Crawford to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter - to quote Thomas Harris himself, " "How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home." Lecter has been in love with Starling ever since this first meeting, although he tried very hard to hide his obsession from her, as he didn't want Starling to know the power she had over him. Lecter was frightened and frustrated by the fact that he'd fallen in love with this "trainee", and tried to send her away; ultimately though, Lecter found that he wanted to help her. Starling succeeded against all expectations, and was promoted to the status of full FBI agent because of her killing of Jame Gumb, who Lecter helped her to find.

Even after Lecter's bloody escape, Starling somehow instinctually knew that he would never hurt her. A few weeks later Lecter sent Starling a letter confirming that she had nothing to fear from him. Truly, Lecter would never be able to bring himself to harm Starling, and he would only enter her life again years later when he saw she needed his help. Lecter's letter ended with the phrase "Some of our stars are the same." This bears a certainly resemblance to the famous letter written by one of the men who tried to scale Everest to his wife, which said "Goodnight and great love to you. We see the same stars." This appears to be another roundabout way of Lecter's to tell Clarice that he loves her, similar to how, in Memphis, he told her "People will say we're in love," as though he couldn't quite bring himself to say the actual words.

As we learn more about Lecter's past in Hannibal Rising, it appears that Lecter's reluctance to say the words "I love you" stems from his aunt's rejection of him the two times he told her "I love you." Nearly seven years after their physical parting in Memphis, Starling - whose career has not been nearly as successful as her bright start would have indicated - has been suspended from the FBI, and is about to be kicked out entirely. Suddenly she receives a letter from Lecter, from which she finds encouragement and because of which the FBI is forced to allow Starling to not only stay in the FBI, but to allow her into Behavioral Science, the place she'd always wanted to be, as this is the first trace of Lecter they'd had in nearly seven years. Starling is hunting Lecter for the FBI (or so she wants to think; but we're told by Harris that "The truth was more complicated than that.") but Lecter is also being hunted by his former "victim", Mason Verger, who intends to torture and kill Lecter. The ensuing manhunt comes to a head when Verger's men capture Lecter as he is leaving a birthday gift for Starling.

When Clarice tries to tell her "superiors" that Hannibal Lecter was just kidnapped by Verger's people, they don't believe her. Back at home, Starling remembers the encouraging things Lecter had said to her, and then she thinks about Mason torturing him to death. She can't help seeing Lecter as a lamb who needs to be saved. So Starling goes on her own to rescue Lecter. In the ensuing fight at the Verger farm, Starling enters the barn where Lecter is tied up - ready to be fed to the pigs waiting at the gate. Starling shoots and kills what she thinks are all of the Sardinians in Mason's employ, then proceeds to work on freeing Lecter from his restraints. However, one of the Sardinians is still alive and shoots at Starling with the tranquilizer gun meant for the pigs. Lecter warns Starling about the other Sardinian in time for her to whip around and shoot him, but his tranquilizer still catches her. By this time the pigs have managed to get into the barn themselves, but Lecter finishes freeing himself in time to lift Starling into his arms and carry her to safety.

Lecter and Starling spend a few weeks together at a house on the Chesapeake where he cooks for her, plays the harpsichord for her, and closely monitors her recovery - her physical recovery from the effects of the two tranquilizer darts she was hit with, and her psychological "recovery" from the death of her father, as she never really let herself accept and grieve his death. Lecter also tells Starling about his sister Mischa during this time. After Lecter makes dinner one night for himself and Starling partially from her nemesis, Paul Krendler, Starling and Lecter are sitting together in the drawing room, talking about "teacups and time". Lecter finally tells Starling his desperate hope to bring Mischa back to life. Starling sympathizes with him, but she also puts him in his place, pointing out to Lecter that they've spent the last few weeks together finding the solution to her acceptance of her own father's death. Starling tells Lecter that if, as he himself told her, there is room within Starling for her father's memory, then there must also be room within Lecter for his sister's memory.

Lecter is eagerly ready to accept this solution. Then Starling experiences an epiphany of sorts, and realizes what Lecter really needs/wants. She reaches into the neckline of her dress and frees her breast, meeting Lecter's eyes the whole time. At her invitation, he swiftly comes to kneel on his knees in front of her chair and takes her breast into his mouth. They become lovers and disappear together. The next time we see "our couple" - as Thomas Harris calls them - is three years later, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Barney, the former orderly, and his new girlfriend Lillian Hersh encounter Lecter and Starling at the Teatro Colon opera house. Barney sees Lecter and Starling completely absorbed in each other, and it is unknown if they were aware of his presence or not. Barney is able to convince Lillian to leave with him immediately without telling her why, and, presumably, Barney never told anyone about this encounter.

We're then given a glimpse into Lecter and Starling's home life: They live together in a wonderful Beaux-arts building near the French embassy in Buenos Aires; the servants in their household have a high morale, but there is an iron discipline among them; Lecter and Starling often speak at dinnertime in languages other than Starling's native English, especially Italian, as she finds a curious freedom in the visual nuances of the language; They often dance at dinnertime, too. We're told that "Sex is a splendid structure they add to every day." So, they have a very active and healthy sex life together as well. We're told that Clarice has a memory palace of her own, and that it is filled with pleasant things: her father; the horse, Hannah, that she had as a child; and even Jack Crawford, "when she chooses to see him." We're told that Clarice and Hannibal's memory palaces have many rooms in common, although hers grows on its own.

The novel, and the series, closes with Harris telling us that we must leave, while Hannibal and Clarice are dancing together on the terrace, as "the wise Barney has already left town, and we must follow his example," because "For either of them to discover us would be fatal." Physical Apperance Edit Lecter was a small and sleek man but was deceptively strong. His left hand had a condition called mid ray duplication polydactyly, i.e. a duplicated middle finger. [5] He later performed plastic surgery on his own face on several occasions and removes his extra digit. [3] Lecter's eyes were a shade of maroon and reflected the light in "pinpoints of red". He also had small white teeth and dark, slicked-back hair with a widow's peak. [5] Personality Hannibal: Hannibal Lecter Hannibal Lecter om Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Lady Murasaki Lecter (Aunt and guardian) M.O.

Organized serial murder, Revenge Cannibalism, Torture Occupation(s) Surgeon, Psychiatrist, Culinary Artist, Artist, Library Curator Current status: Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon Gaspard Ulliel - Hannibal Rising Aaron Thomas - Hannibal Rising Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character in a series of novels by author Thomas Harris. Lecter is introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. Lecter's role in the novel is minor, but in the sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, he becomes one of two primary antagonists. In the third novel, Hannibal, Lecter becomes the main character. His role as protagonist continues into the fourth novel, Hannibal Rising, which explores his childhood and development into a serial killer. Lecter's character also appears in all five film adaptations. The first film (Manhunter, 1986) was loosely based on Red Dragon, and features Brian Cox as Lecter, inexplicably spelled as "Lecktor".

In 2002, a second film adaptation of Red Dragon was made under the original title, featuring Anthony Hopkins, who had previously portrayed Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. Hopkins' won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the character in The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. Lecter (as portrayed by Hopkins) has been named by The American Film Institute to be the most memorable villain in film history.[1] Contents 7 External links [edit] Character origin and development Harris has never explained where he got inspiration for Hannibal Lecter, but in a documentary for Hannibal Rising, Lecter's early murders were said by the filmmakers to be based on murders that Harris had covered when he was a crime scene reporter in the 1960s.[2] In 1992, Harris also paid a visit to the ongoing trials of Pietro Pacciani, who was suspected of being the serial killer nicknamed the "Monster of Florence". Parts of the killer's modus operandi were used as reference for the novel Hannibal.

[edit] Appearance Hannibal Lecter is described in the novels as being small and sleek, and with wiry strength in his arms.[3] In Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter's left hand has the condition called mid ray duplication polydactyly, or his left hand has an extra digit; a duplicated middle finger.[4] In Hannibal, he has since had his extra digit removed, while Hannibal Rising makes no mention of this physical abnormality. Lecter's eyes are shade of maroon, and reflect the light in "pinpoints of red".[5] He is also said to have small white teeth[6] and dark hair. [edit] Fictional character biography The following account of the character's biography is based strictly on the novel series. All date contradictions are purported to be by Lecter himself, with the dates in Hannibal Rising purporting to be the correct ones. [edit] Ancestry A young Hannibal Lecter with his sister Mischa in the 2007 film Hannibal Rising.

Hannibal Rising reveals that Hannibal Lecter is the eighth generation descendant of the warlord "Hannibal the Grim" who defeated the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Grunwald (1410). Lecter's mother, Madame Simonetta Sforza, is descended from both the Visconti and Sforza families who separately ruled Milan for a total of 250 years. In Hannibal, it is suggested that Lecter is also descended from Giuliano Bevisangue, a feared and ruthless figure in 12th-century Tuscany, and from the Machiavelli bloodline. In the book Hannibal, Lecter himself pursues this subject to determine from the records of the Capponi Library if there is any true connection to Bevisangue, but he is unable to answer the question. Hannibal also asserts that Lecter is a distant cousin of the artist Balthus. [edit] The Making of The Monster Lecter's childhood is first referenced in Hannibal, but is fully detailed in Hannibal Rising. Hannibal Lecter was born on January 20, 1933 to a wealthy, aristocratic Lithuanian family.

After the death of his parents in World War II, eleven-year-old Hannibal and his younger sister Mischa were held against their will by a group of looters during the severe winter of 1944. Unable to find food, the looters resorted to cannibalism, and chose Mischa to be consumed. Lecter was severely traumatized by his sister's death, an event that haunted him for the rest of his life. This destroyed his faith in God, and shaped him into the "monster" that is later depicted in the series. Lecter, orphaned, lived in his former home which had been converted into an orphanage. After a year, his uncle and aunt, Count Robert Lecter, and Lady Murasaki, retrieved him so that he could live in France. Lecter committed his first murder as a teenager, by beheading a butcher who had insulted his aunt, and whose insult indirectly led to the death of his uncle. Lecter was interrogated by the police, but was released on lack of evidence. Knowing what Lecter had done, Lady Murasaki feared that he would try to kill the men who murdered Mischa.

She failed to dissuade him from hunting the men, and Lecter left, determined to avenge his sister. Avenging Mischa grew into an obsession, and he relentlessly hunted the group who killed his sister; he then systematically butchered them, cannibalizing several of them. When he confronted the group's leader, Vladis Grutas, he learned that he too had consumed Mischa's remains in a broth. Out of rage, Lecter carved the letter M into Grutas' body. Witnessing the monster that Lecter had become, Lady Murasaki left him. With all his loved ones gone, Lecter left Europe for the United States, having earlier been accepted to Johns Hopkins University. [edit] American Career After graduating from Johns Hopkins University, Lecter establishes a psychiatric practice in Baltimore, Maryland, and became a celebrated figure in the city's most prominent social circles. Lecter had also worked as an emergency room physician in Baltimore. Lecter's desire to murder and cannibalize does not end after he avenges Mischa. Lecter kills nine more people in Baltimore and disables three others.

Two of his victims figure in later novels: Hannibal introduces Mason Verger, a billionaire pedophile who survives Lecter's assault, but is left a hideously disfigured quadriplegic; and The Silence of the Lambs introduces Benjamin Raspail, an untalented flautist whose lover, Jame Gumb, becomes the serial killer "Buffalo Bill", the novel's secondary villain. FBI Agent Will Graham consults Lecter in his office one Sunday, looking for psychiatric and surgical insight into a serial killer he is investigating. Briefly left alone in Lecter's office, he suddenly realizes the doctor is the killer he seeks after seeing the antique medical diagram "Wound Man" in Lecter's office; Graham remembers that one of the victims was found in the exact position. Lecter, having realised his mistake, returns to attack Graham, stabbing and nearly disemboweling him. Maryland State Troopers arrive and arrests Lecter.

Lecter is found not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to nine consecutive life terms in the Chesapeake State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, later the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane (though the novel names it the Chesapeake Hospital, it makes it clear that the hospital is in Maryland and not Virginia). He is nicknamed "Hannibal the Cannibal" in the National Tattler, a lurid tabloid that covers his trial. [edit] Incarceration Lecter is a model patient for the first year of his incarceration. It is revealed in the novel Red Dragon, that he attacked a nurse, dislocating her jaw, eating her tongue and ripping out one of her eyes. During the assault, Lecter's pulse never rose above 85 BPM. This fact is later mentioned again in The Silence of the Lambs as a reminder to the audience. Because of his unusual brain wave patterns and history of violence, he is branded a "pure sociopath"; Graham mentions, however, that Lecter does not really fit any psychological profile, and so is labeled a sociopath for lack of a more appropriate term.

Lecter refuses to submit to any standard psychological testing, folding questionnaires into origami and reciting a recipe for a dip under the influence of sodium amytal. Red Dragon introduces Lecter's keeper in the asylum: administrator Frederick Chilton, whom Lecter despises. In The Silence of the Lambs, orderly Barney Matthews, who treats Lecter with courtesy, is introduced, and he enjoys a mutual respect with Lecter. In Red Dragon, Graham briefly consults Lecter in an investigation of a serial killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy". Unknown to Graham, Lecter starts a correspondence with the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, and gives him Graham's home address in code. As a result, Dolarhyde is killed and Graham is permanently disfigured. Hannibal Lecter talking to Clarice Starling in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs. In The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter assists FBI trainee Clarice Starling in capturing "Buffalo Bill". In exchange for his help (given as vague, riddling clues) Lecter demands personal information about Starling's painful childhood.

The two grow to respect each other, and it is implied that Lecter forms a romantic attachment to her. When I.J. "Multiple" Miggs, the prisoner in a cell four cells down and on the opposite side of the corridor from Lecter's, throws his semen into her face, Lecter "finds this discourtesy unspeakably ugly" and punishes Miggs by manipulating him into committing suicide. Toward the end of the investigation, Lecter gives Starling a final clue: "This man covets, and how do we begin to covet? We covet what we see everyday." This helps Starling deduce that the killer knew one of his victims personally, and uses this to find "Buffalo Bill" in time to save the woman he had kidnapped, killing him in the ensuing struggle. Lecter escapes, killing two corrections officers, a staff of paramedics and a tourist whose identity he steals. He performs plastic surgery upon himself, and escapes to Europe, leaving Starling a note congratulating her on facing her personal demons. [edit] Winning Clarice Lecter next appears in Hannibal, set seven years later, living in Florence, Italy, under the alias "Dr. Fell".

There, he is the curator of the prestigious Capponi Library (having murdered the position's previous occupant). He reads in an American newspaper that Starling, now a full-fledged FBI agent, has been blamed for a botched drug raid and is in danger of losing her job. He sends her a hand-written note of encouragement, reigniting the manhunt. Wanting to draw Lecter from hiding, Starling's superior Paul Krendler joins forces with one of Lecter's surviving victims named Mason Verger, in an attempt to frame Starling for an inappropriate relationship with Lecter. After Krendler convinces the FBI of the faux relationship, Starling is placed upon investigative leave. In Florence, Lecter learns that a corrupt detective named Rinaldo Pazzi has discovered him and informed Verger of his location. He kills Pazzi and returns to the United States to stalk Starling. During this time, Lecter is captured by Verger. Knowing that Verger has Lecter, Starling attempts a rescue of him in order to turn him over to the FBI.

She is wounded in the attempt and Lecter kidnaps her, after convincing Verger's abused sister, Margot Verger, a former patient of Lecter, to kill her brother. Lecter holds Starling in captivity and uses a variety of mind-altering drugs and psychological conditioning techniques to sublimate her personality and transform her into a surrogate for his sister Mischa. Starling's personality remains intact, however, and she mocks his attempts to break her spirit. She then offers Lecter her breasts, and the two become lovers. Lecter kidnaps and lobotomizes Krendler, and the two dine on his still-living brain. They then flee to Argentina, where they are spotted three years later by Barney Matthews. [edit] Diagnosis Although the books suggest that Lecter cannot be diagnosed by characters within the universe, it is a much easier job when one can see Lecter's entire life. Within the framework of the DSM-IV TR, Lecter has pure Anti-Social Personality Disorder (in Axis 2), without any other accompanying anxiety or emotional disorders so far indicated (in Axis 1).

It has been suggested in Red Dragon (the book) that he used to abuse animals, which is common in APD, but it is doubtful in light of Hannibal and Hannibal Rising. His crimes escalated before age 18, which is essential for APD. Along with this, Lecter has unusual brainwave patterns common in other sociopaths. It is safe to assume that Lecter is the victim of childhood trauma for his Axis 4 diagnosis. It is conceivable that Lecter could also have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) because he probably ruminates about the stress in his childhood over and over, which would cause instability. Supposedly, Lecter's murder fantasies center around "rudeness" and the control of it. Lecter has his own definition of "rudeness" which is a key to understanding his crimes. The connection between eating and "rudeness" is his sister, who was eaten by a band of Nazi deserters at the end of World War 2. In the movie Red Dragon, Lecter suggests that he would also eat the well meaning persons who have the intelligence and the focus to stop him in order to gain a portion of the desirable parts of their personalities.

In that case, he wanted to eat someone's heart to gain their courage, which is out of sync with his main murder fantasy: the removal of rudeness from the world, or at least from Lecter's vicinity. Another idiosyncrasy happened during his incarceration, when he attacked a random nurse who was simply treating him in the asylum. Lecter's killing pattern has three notable features. In no particular order, first, he does not search for victims, he waits for random persons to come to him (except in the case of his former overseer Fredrick Chilton whom he hunted down in South America). Second, he does not kill anyone of a specific gender, age, or body shape, which Starling in The Silence of the Lambs noted applied to Buffalo Bill, although he does only kill white persons. In Manhunter "Lecktor" is said to have killed only college women, but this is not canon. Third, he does not keep trophies of his victims, which Starling also noted. [edit] Film portrayal Hannibal "Lecktor", as portrayed by Brian Cox in Manhunter.

Lecter has been portrayed by four different actors in the films, but the most referenced actor is British actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, who portrayed the character in three of the five films. Hopkins's portrayal of the character in the Silence of the Lambs won him an Academy Award in 1992, even though his screentime in the film as Lecter only spans just under 17 minutes. It still stands as the shortest lead role to ever win an Academy Award. Hopkins claimed that he drew inspiration for his portrayal of Lecter from HAL-9000, the villainous computer from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.[7] Hopkins was not the first actor to portray Lecter. Brian Cox portrayed Hannibal "Lecktor" in the 1986 film Manhunter. Cox said his characterization was inspired by Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.[8] Gaspard Ulliel portrays Lecter as a young man in the 2007 film Hannibal Rising. Ulliel stated that he based his portrayal on Hopkins' and mixed it with his own style. Aaron Thomas portrays Lecter as a child in Hannibal Rising.

Posted by Hannibal the Cannibal Tour offered in Lithuania Hannibal the Cannibal Tour offered in Lithuania By Chris V. Thangham Feb 15, 2007 in Entertainment Hannibal Rising Tour offered by Lithuanian Tourism to showcase Hannibal Lecture growing up in Lithuania. If you want to meet Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, a Lithuanian tour firm can help. In "Hannibal Rising" the novel by Thomas Harris now made into a movie, the childhood and youth of the fictional man-eating serial killer are set in the Baltic state, and the firm is offering a themed visit to the Lithuanian capital. Since the movie Hannibal Rising discusses about Hannibal Lecter growing up in Lithuania and becoming the villain because of all the hardships he endures there, the Lithuanians want to capitalize on it. According to Aurimas Jukna, director of tourism agency, they hope to attract tourists who would be interested in visiting Lecter's native country. The tour includes a trip around Vilnius, a visit to a nearby estate for a "Hannibal feast" and a meeting with "Lecter". The cost is 100 euros ($131).

In Hannibal Rising movie, Lecter is born into a noble Lithuanian family after Hitler's army invading Lithuania, Lecter's peaceful life goes awry. He sees his sister killed and eaten by invading army militiamen because of lack of food availability. This trauma leads him to murder others and also involve in cannibalism. You can read more about this movie in the [url=If you want to meet Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, a Lithuanian tour firm can help. In "Hannibal Rising" the novel by Thomas Harris now made into a movie, the childhood and youth of the fictional man-eating serial killer are set in the Baltic state, and the firm is offering a themed visit to the Lithuanian capital. t=_blank]Wikipedia article. This Wikipedia article itself spooky, the movie will be spookier. This tourism agency will organize a tour that goes through the various places where Lecter goes through an ordeal. I doubt it will grow like the Dracula Transylvania tours . Will you be interested in this Hannibal Lecter tour?

Question: In which country now within the EU was the fictional Hannibal Lector born?
Answer: Lithuania