Thomas Harris’ intense novel, Silence of the Lambs, presents the reader with many motifs and symbols. The most discussed of these symbols is the moth. The murderer Buffalo Bill, a.k.a Mister Hyde, a.k.a Jame Gumb, is known to place a peculiar variety of moth, the Acherontia Atropos, or death’s head moth, in his victim’s throats. … Continue reading Why the Moth? →