Estudo do canibalismo na história e na literatura e o significado de Hannibal Lecter como possível ogro contemporâneo.

Abstract

Cannibalism is inserted in the literature from the Middle Ages, when the folk tales were passed down orally among communities. The first adaptations of these tales is given to a reading directed at children, called "fairy tales" or "wonderful tales." The ogre itself is a creature of evil nature that wants to devour those who pass by on their way. He appears in the stories of the Grimm‘s and Charles Perrault. Hannibal Lecter is a contemporary character created by writer Thomas Harris. His first appearance is in Red Dragon, and later the main character in The Silence of the Lambs. Lecter is a renowned psychiatrist, with a dark past and feel full pleasure in eating their patients or people from your social circle. Our study seeks to make a trajectory of real cannibalism and fairy tales, relates it with vampirism so to get to study the character Hannibal Lecter, and characterized it as a contemporary ogre.