Hannibal Rising uses graphic depictions of the atrocities of the Second World War-including freezing, starvation, immolation, and enslavement-to mitigate Lecter’s cannibalistic classism and restore his humanity. This article argues that Thomas Harris’s prequel novel, Hannibal Rising (2006), makes Lecter more palatable by portraying his serial murders as an act of vengeance against a postwar society that allowed war criminals to rejoin the consumer milieu.
Yet by the end of the twentieth century, Lecter had shifted from monster to hero.
Beginning with Red Dragon (1981), horror icon Hannibal Lecter thrilled audiences as the ultimate unreadable reader, consuming minds and bodies behind the polished veneer of aristocratic taste and psychological expertise.
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