The interpretations of this painting are as numerous as many people try to interpret it. From different angles this violent act may suggest completely different and sometimes shocking things. One finds love, another rape or death. It is difficult to take no notice of the sexual aspects of this work ...
"They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you won't face it" (McCarthy 117). ... They find a locked entrance to the basement and force it open to see if anything down there would be of use, "Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. ...
Let's say there is a trial and a person is found guilty of committing a crime such as rape. ... Another student at the Inter-American University stated: "I believe that locking up a criminal between 4 walls and have him contemplating how he ended up in jail and either feel remorse for his crime or anger because of the outcome for a lifetime until death is a far greater punishment rather than 5 seconds of pain and then lights out and feel nothing at all." ...
