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Going back into modernism, society is being torn apart and we don’t have the power (or want to have the power) to stop it. The world will forever be changing just like the werwolf transition and sometimes it feels like more evil than good is taking over. The werwolf represents a crumbling society unable to abide by the normal ways of a society.

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In the early 90’s, LGBTQ+ was nowhere near today’s society level of embrace and acceptance. Buffalo Bill’s journey towards sexual re-assignment led him to being referred to a therapist (including Dr. Lecter) and rejected for re-assignment. Upon not being approved, Buffalo Bill creates his own for of transitioning by creating a “woman suit” out of his victims. This portrayal shows an unrealistic view into an unstable and violet transgender person.

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Clarice’s driving force in not only becoming an FBI trainee, but finding Buffalo Bill roots from a traumatic incident she witnessed when she was younger. In the movie, Clarice shares with Hannibal Lecter how one night she heard screams coming from a barn, she was scared to go in but she did only to find out it was a rancher slaughtering lambs, she tried to save them but they wouldn’t come with her, so she carried one but couldn’t make it far before being overtaken by exhaustion. She still wakes up at night hearing lamb scream, she feels if she can save the next victim from Buffalo Bill, she will feel a weight lifted off her shoulders from the lamb incident.

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Societal issues with Silence of the Lambs

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Societal issues with Silence of the Lambs

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Sexism, which was still a driving issue in the 90s, when the movie was released (1991). As a female in law enforcement, we see clarice try to break that glass ceiling but multiple times she falls short, she is hit on by coworkers and treated lesser than to the other men she works alongside, in one of the scenes, she is excluded from a conversation with officers and asks the FBI director to be a positive example for inclusivity within the case.

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There is a large reoccurring theme within these three stories. Close to all Horror stories show a deeper meaning of a problem in our society. This is what makes these movies, books, etc. so frightening, their realism shows some form of these situations could possibly happen to us. In Patient Zero, we see society fears this small, poor innocent boy who carries a disease as the biggest threat in the world. Society will always spin nothing into something, there will always be fear, bad and scary in our world, but in a way we must welcome it to survive. The werwolf shows an obvious meaning of modernism, more the idea of bad in the world taking over and there is nothing we can do about it. Again, we must welcome this bad in an attempt to better ourselves. And we see in Silence of the Lambs, there are a lot of meaning behind this horror movie. They show how we can construe someone into something they are not because they are different from the rest of us. It shows how trauma can affect the rest of our life decisions, how big an impact it has on our wellbeing. All these stories show us one big, main idea, society can be a huge mess and a bad place, but we can find tools and tricks to help us cope.

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The werwolf is portrayed as a discrete way to show modernism in today’s society. It can be considered a modern horror story because it shows how we can create our own malicious fantasy’s of ourselves. When you make a deal with the devil like the werewolf did, you almost see a snowball affect come into play due to karma. This story is first and foremost a horror story, but when we look at what the werwolf represents and how we relate to him, we can see a deeper meaning. This represents modernism because the werwolf terrorizes people, modernism is terrorizing our society, modernism can be relentless and will destroy morals we’ve built if we don’t stop it.

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We find that the issue with patient zero is he is all alone and when you are all alone, sometimes you can get to far in your head which could cause a psychotic break, for Patient zero, he was fueled by that loneliness and everything he was losing in the process of being on his own, so when he was trying to help everyone be alright again, the rest of the world was seeing him a a threat.

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Silence of the lambs follows FBI trainee, Clarice starling (Jodie Foster) as she accepts a training assignment to meet with imprisoned serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). The purpose of their meeting is to profile active serial killer Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) of finding and capturing him, within a brief timeline, before he can murder his next victim.

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Patent zero is the only survivor of a disease, but he can still transmit it to others. He’s locked in an enclosed for the rest of his life with less and less to live for, with his whole family gone, he has to rely on others to fill that gap in his life.