Norma Bates

Only Bates Can Get A Little Voyeuristic At Times: An Analysis on Robert Bloch’s “Psycho” When it comes to Gothic Literature, there are various conventions that could come into play, to define a work as such. In the “Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms”, Douglass H. Thomson notes that in such a genre there is a gap of difference that separates works that evoke terror and those that ignite horror as he says: “Works of horror are constructed from a maze of alarmingly concrete imagery designed to…

2011 versus the movie Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1960, Lets the audience see a similar message of incertitude of gender insensitivity. Between the two films and the evidence of the main characters Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede And Norman Bates have a similar persona throughout the movies and what caused their actions of being homosexuality.The two ladies known as the second main characters in the movies Marjorie "Marge" Nugent and Marion Crane not only have names starting with the…

Note: Within the essay, whenever the term serial killer is used, it encompasses any type of violent offender without a motive or a connection to the victims. Today’s society is not able to truly comprehend the serial or the mass murderer. With no motive or connection to the victims, the violence does not make sense. It is difficult to depict a character or concept only partially understood. Psycho took this perplexing subject and executed it respectfully and appropriately. It was the…