Saturday, August 14, 2010

Lecter series - unified analysis - part 27: An implication of Starling's defeat of Gumb

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Clarice Starling (played by Jodie Foster) in The Silence of the Lambs. Starling is an angel of death, sent by God to destroy Satan's pupil, Jame Gumb.








On defeating Gumb at the end of The Silence of the Lambs, Starling has assimilated the 'evil side' of herself, which had been represented by Gumb. Since Clarice represents the Roman Catholic Church (by virtue of the fact that she represents holiness itself), what's being symbolized by Starling's assimilation of evil is the fact that the Catholic Church itself has assimilated evil.


      

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