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Peace in the Pieces Disassembled: Deconstructing Hannibal, Part V

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 V. Someday, perhaps a teacup may come together There is a passage in the novel Hannibal where Hannibal watches A brief history of time and listens to Stephen Hawking talking about the thermodynamic/cosmological arrow of time and entropy: “You may see a cup of tea fall off of a table and break into pieces on […]

Peace in the Pieces Disassembled: Deconstructing Hannibal, part III

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III. Folie à deux In the first part of this deconstruction (I. When Hannibal Fed Will’s dogs) I promised to write a few things on Hannibal’s true motives. For this part of the analysis it is crucial that we all concur that Hannibal is a very intelligent, multilayered, complex character.  Hannibal’s motives must never be too […]

Peace in the Pieces Disassembled: Deconstructing Hannibal, part II

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II. What Would Freud Say? For anyone who’s ever read Sigmund Freud, it is obvious that the two protagonists are manifestations of the two opposing elements in his structural model of the human psyche/mind: id and superego. But, let’s start with the basics, for all those who haven’t read Freud;  presuming that you have read […]