... She does, however, have other parallels within the film: the victims of the serial killer. Not that Clarice herself is a victim. Yet Clarice is from a background similar to that of the first victim, Frederica Bimmel-motherless from a young age (age of Frederica's photos show her with her father or friends), lower-middle-class, raised in a small, declining industrial town (West Virginia vs. Ohio). ... near Quantico, Va." Graphically the letters look as if they could have come froma typewritten report. The narration presents expositional information succinctly and coolly; the suggestion is ...

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... for Duty, Family, and, especially, Propriety. "We have come to regard the Crown as the head of our morality" wrote the historian Walter Bagehot. As a description of behavior, "Victorian" signifies social conduct governed by strict rules, formal manners, and rigidly defined gender roles. ... individual within a larger historical conflict between traditional institutions (such as the church) and new egalitarian, reformist impulses, as does his Palliser or political series which includes Phineas Finn (1869), The Eustace Diamonds (1873), The Prime Minister (1876), and The Duke's Children (1...

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