Bestiality Creeps In Stigmatizing The Insane

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Bestiality creeps in the narratives concerned with madness and it indirectly helps in stigmatizing the insane. Foucault has talked about the mapping of eras in Madness and civilization he has given more stress to Classical Age (1650-1800) in his book . The characteristics of the Classical age like potential for spectacle, configuration of confinement and bestiality surfaces repeatedly in films. Following the parlor sequence a bestiality motif is established in Psycho when Norman decides to spy on Marion through a peephole in the wall. For this Norman pauses and looks around and the mis-en-scene included two stuffed birds on the wall juxtaposed with him. Animal imagery surfaces repeatedly in films about the insane. Hence Norman is compared

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