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The novel’s titular lambs symbolize innocence, which Starling believes must be protected at all costs. After Starling’s father died when she was a 10, she was sent to live with some relatives who owned a…
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The Death’s Head Moths in The Silence of the Lambs symbolize Jame Gumb’s perverted desire to transform himself into a woman via a horrifically violent path. Jame Gumb—also known as Buffalo Bill—is a serial…
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