毕业设计（论文）An Analysis of the Silence of the Lambs from the Perspective of Abnormal Psychology.doc

An Analysis of the Silence of the Lambs -------From the Perspective of Abnormal Psychology A Thesis Submitted for obtaining the B.A. Degree from Foreign Languages Department, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine By Ba Lei Supervised By A/Prof. Liu Ya June 2, 2011 Signature The thesis An Analysis of the Silence of the Lambs from the Perspective of Abnormal Psychology by Ba Lei was reviewed and approved by A/Prof. Liu Ya on June 2, 2011. Supervisor :________________( Signature) Acknowledgements The paper was completed in June 2011, and many people have helped with it. My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to A/Prof. Liu, my supervisor, for her constant encouragement and guidance. Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis would not have reached its present form. Second, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to other professors and teachers at the department of English, those who have instructed and helped me a lot in my college life. Last, my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. Above all, I also have to express my sincere gratitude to my friends, my roommates and my fellow classmates who offer me their helps and times in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis. Abstract ：With the rapid development of modern society, competition is becoming increasingly fierce, and people’s mental stress increases. It can be found that the crime rate continues to grow and there are more and more odd and abnormal crimes, which reflect increasingly serious psychological problems. Consequently, people pay more attention to the study of mental health. The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris’s best-selling novel, it is a gruesome psychological suspense novel. It reflects the problem of crime in American society and the surprising terroristic acts or abnormal psychology of the characters in the novel make