Wednesday, April 14, 2010
No childhood face
I noticed that in From Hell, the reader does not see William's face until he is grown up. Why do you guys think the creators did this? I thought that maybe they wanted the reader to only think of the grown up William when they thought of the murders. Maybe they thought that thinking of him in his childhood state would bring innocence to a man that they wanted to be thought of as guilty. Or, maybe it was just for dramatic effect.
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I really think it could be for any of these reasons, but I'd like to think it was to make the "innocent" young boy easily forgettable so the focus stays on the older William. Without the visual of the young boy's face, its easier to only associate him with his older, murdering side. For me at least.
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