confuse the line between adult and child. In Psycho‚ we find Norman Bates‚ who is not able to come of his age as an adult‚ though pretending to be one. [Norman struggles a lot to emerge out of his childhood trauma just like Marnie. Elizabeth Ramsy states that the child figure thus occupies an ambiguous liminal space “that threatens as it unites ideas of domesticity” (Olson 6). ] Wetmore in his article‚ “Psycho without a cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema” compellingly argues that Psycho
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audience is skillfully positioned into identifying with different characters. Throughout the film‚ Hitchcock’s techniques voyeuristically implicate the audience to shift their sympathy between two main characters Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). Hitchcock explores the nightmarish themes of madness‚ duality of characters‚ personal traps and voyeurism through employment of devices like mise-en-scene and motifs. Through the use of mise-en-scene in the parlor‚ Hitchcock
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owner-manager Norman Bates and its aftermath. Unlike “Strangers on a Train”‚ where two storylines are told parallel‚ “Psycho” emphasis Norman Bates‚ the antagonist suddenly becomes the main character of the movie‚ when the protagonist‚ Marion‚ was killed in after 30 minutes of screening time. One of the reasons Alfred Hitchcock decided to promote Norman Bates narrative line is to unravel the obscure character‚ who appears more than simply a psychotic murderer. We first meet Norman when the attractive
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was a young man named Norman Bates. Norman seemed normal for a while‚ his persona was a normal young an that loved and cared for his mother. Norman lived with his mother in a house next to the motel‚ he was always doing what she said and getting mistreated by her. But the true story is‚ Norman had killed his mother and her lover years earlier because he felt abandoned by her. This is where the orphan archetype comes in. Orphans feel betrayed and abandoned‚ Norman was jealous of the men
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Alfred Hitchcock touched on many different themes of relationships between sexes that I have observed in both of the movies‚ Psycho and Rear Window. Some of main themes in both of these movies include the theme of marriage‚ sex‚ infidelity and murder. Through class discussions and my observation of these movies‚ my analysis of these points are as follows: Women were portrayed to be desperate for companion‚ a hunger for control with a streak of jealous behavior. But‚ they are also compelled to
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there are five stages; oral‚ anal‚ phallic‚ latency‚ and genital. Freud’s theory can be demonstrated through Norman Baits in the movie Psycho. My first example of Freud’s theory as it related to Norman Bates is the ID. ID is based on pleasure principle‚ a person’s wants of instant gratification. Both sides of Norman Baits pleasure and wants were fully fulfilled. In the movie Psycho‚ Norman Baits has the want to keep the illusion of his mother a reality and sacrifices his other half to do so. On
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As the movie shown Norman’s psychotic mind‚ we but give great evidence of how the environment had influence on him. With the comparison of other character’s personalities‚ audiences are actually persuaded back to see the similarity of his mind to normal people’s. Traps are also discussed in this significant dialogue‚ to show his logical thinking of his situation. As scenes of logics shown from Norman comes up one by one‚ Norman’s rational process of thinking
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the Parlor scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho‚ where Marion and Norman are talking during her first and last night at the hotel‚ the mise-en-scene expresses the true nature and‚ to a certain extent‚ the intentions of both characters. The illumination in this scene adds to the movies suspense and significance‚ the props foreshadow what’s to come‚ as well as what is said by Norman. This scene is where the viewers are introduced to Norman Bates and his strange life‚ and allowing them realize that there’s
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Movies‚ books‚ and television all thrive off of the Oedipal complex. One such example is the movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock‚ we witness the main character Norman Bates obsession with his mother. When Bates’ father passes away‚ the young boy becomes dependent on his mother. It is later revealed that Mrs. Bates sexually abused Norman. Thus‚ Norman never moved on and remained reliant on his mother (Oedipus Complex‚ N.D.). In Shakespeare’s Hamlet we see the similarities. Hamlet has a distaste for his
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catch onto a lot of the techniques Hitchcock used to entrap his audience. This article‚ for that matter was packed with a lot of detailed perspectives that Recchia saw not only in Marione‚ but also her co-workers‚ the highway officer‚ her lover and Norman Bates. Most noted‚ the relationship that the viewer builds with Marione was of most interest to me. In the text‚ it is referenced that audience members almost always side with the protagonist. Hence‚ it was to no surprise when I found myself rooting
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