What Is Norman Bate's Personality Disorder
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Essay Assignment
Maryam Malik
AHSS*1210 F13 (01)
November 26th, 2013.
Norman Bate’s Personality disorder
It is often said we are who we chose to be and that our actions shape our personalities, but what would you do if you were no longer in control of yourself? In the movie Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock the antagonist suffered from childhood isolation and was triggered by an oedipal complex, which caused him to become morally blinded, and develop dissociative identity disorder. The movie is about a young, motel manager named Norman Bates. He lives alone with his mother in a deserted area and runs an abandoned motel, which barely makes any profits. The story starts to unravel when Marian Crane the protagonist of the movie, who had ran off with stealing $40,000, …show more content…
However, due to the lack of parenting skills that his mother possessed such as the harsh, controlling qualities she had. Along with, her awful upbringing, his innocence as a child was taken away. His mother is the true culprit to Norman turning into a psychopath as an adult, as she never let him experience the outside world and in a way kept him captive. This childhood isolation, resulted in the start of an oedipal complex, and soon turned Norman into a murderer, taking the lives of innocent women. Although, Norman had no intention to harm anyone. As a result of him having dissociative identity disorder, his alter ego of the mother became the dominating one which performed these evil deeds. His illness becomes so overpowering that it causes Norman to completely lose his personality and at the end of the movie he fully turns into his mother. This reminds me of a quote that I once heard that, ‘‘identity is theft of the self’’, which In Norman’s case proves to be true as in the end the mother stole away Norman
Essay Assignment
Maryam Malik
AHSS*1210 F13 (01)
November 26th, 2013.
Norman Bate’s Personality disorder
It is often said we are who we chose to be and that our actions shape our personalities, but what would you do if you were no longer in control of yourself? In the movie Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock the antagonist suffered from childhood isolation and was triggered by an oedipal complex, which caused him to become morally blinded, and develop dissociative identity disorder. The movie is about a young, motel manager named Norman Bates. He lives alone with his mother in a deserted area and runs an abandoned motel, which barely makes any profits. The story starts to unravel when Marian Crane the protagonist of the movie, who had ran off with stealing $40,000, …show more content…
However, due to the lack of parenting skills that his mother possessed such as the harsh, controlling qualities she had. Along with, her awful upbringing, his innocence as a child was taken away. His mother is the true culprit to Norman turning into a psychopath as an adult, as she never let him experience the outside world and in a way kept him captive. This childhood isolation, resulted in the start of an oedipal complex, and soon turned Norman into a murderer, taking the lives of innocent women. Although, Norman had no intention to harm anyone. As a result of him having dissociative identity disorder, his alter ego of the mother became the dominating one which performed these evil deeds. His illness becomes so overpowering that it causes Norman to completely lose his personality and at the end of the movie he fully turns into his mother. This reminds me of a quote that I once heard that, ‘‘identity is theft of the self’’, which In Norman’s case proves to be true as in the end the mother stole away Norman