Alfredo Hitchcock Character Analysis

Alfredo Hitchcock uses a great example of the personality double of Norman Bates character. This is apart of the basic gothic elements and used several times during the movie. As Norman Bates meets Marion crane , he is a sweet and nervous boy that likes a girl. On the other hand he also has a personality as his evil mother side. His mother comes out when he gets threatened and or when Marion Crane undressed and that puts him on edge. A form of an masculine element used is oedipal when his dominant mother side yells at him for not being a man and bringing him down emotionally. Therefore his mother is the dominant character and he is the coward.
Norman Bates is shown at the beginning as am protagonist by being kind and helpful to Marion Crane
when she needs somewhere to stay, he even offers her dinner. The most interesting part of the movie is that he also has an antagonist side of him, which we see at the end of the movie when he is trying to attack Lila Crane dressed as his mother.
Hitchcock has influenced many horror films today with his techniques used in Psycho. Friday the 13th for example uses lighting and shadows to represent isolation when they are really alone and about to die. Alfred uses camera angle to show exaggeration and tension that is building up within the characters by getting close up shots. In Friday the 13th the angle of the cameras are precisely just like Psycho because they knew if it worked in Psycho it can be perfect in our movie as well.