o Key Ideas

Failure to Minimize Consequences

Patients suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder fail to minimize the consequences of their actions (Nevid, Rathus & Greene, 2013). It is evident that Hannibal deploys no effort to lessen the repercussions of his deeds. On the contrary, he often magnifies the results. Such comportment highlights the fact that Dr. Lecter does not empathize with the damage he inflicts upon his victims (Harris, 1991).

KEY IDEAS

- Hannibal pins his hopes on trickery and psychological techniques and it is grinding to quantify the ploys he makes use of. - The desire for mental superiority drives Lecter more than the concern with physical domination, for this latter is not an authentic route to gain control. Lecter’s violence aims to make his victims fear him as they should. Admittedly, he treats those who already fear him with a semblance of kindness. He knows he can control them through fear and thus by adding up a sense of concern to the inferred fear of violence, he arouses conditions in which people act even more unreasonably, allowing him to study their psyche manipulate them further. - Hannibal himself is contended to be labeled as Evil. He rejects attempts to address him else how, like “destructive”, believing it to be a futile venture to countervail the truth. - He does not assume that morality exists in any relevant way, but he knows assuredly that, by the norms of society, he is evil. He wants people to recognize that he had a choice and that he deliberately chose to torture, cannibalize and murder despite his intelligence and sophistication. - Dr. Lecter’s psychological problems are dispersed all over the texts and movies. Seeing that his flaws are greatly concealed, laying hold of enough hints to establish who or what Dr. Hannibal Lecter is, becomes a strenuous challenge. On that account, he will, without fail, remain an unsolved enigma to generations of readers and viewers.

Conclusion

For every man, there is evil. Hence, this research offers no precise definition or solid consensus as to what Good and Evil truly stand for. We cannot all agree on every aspect of the given designations of these concepts. Nonetheless, one thing is for certain: We all know ‘evil’ when we are exposed to it. A staggering amount of evil is among us, roaming freely in the world, and the question of Why are people evil? will always remain one to debate.

The selected characters reveal that villains do not always have clear motivations. At last, the blood-curdling thing about evil is its total mindlessness and self-concealment ability.

Being of an exploratory nature, this research opens up opportunities for further study of goodness and villainy to comprehend their correlations, the specific conditions of their emergence, and the internal contained logic of evil.

Another implication of the research is to establish a comparative matrix concerning villains from different literary works.

Verily, evil only exists as a small fragment of the human experience, which is a trivial fraction of the universal whole. Accordingly, we ought to cultivate goodness and exalt it so it gives rise to ripples of societal renewal.

“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated, but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.”

- Pablo Casals, Spanish composer and cellist

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