Outline For Psycho

Decent Essays
v. Ordinary people face ordinary problems. Because of the strong connection with Marion and Norman, the audience takes pity on them and begins to dismiss the immoral choices they have chosen to make. Some viewers begin to see these choices as acceptable and act accordingly in the real world.

Transition Statement:
III. Alfred Hitchcock dives deeply into the theme of morality within the movie “Psycho.”
A. In the first glimpse of the movie, Marion and her fiancé are having an afternoon rendezvous.
i. While this image is not uncommon in modern day, sexual encounters outside of marriage were rarely seen and often frowned upon in 1960. The audience is quick to judge the character’s actions and suspect her morals to be questionable.
i. As

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Morality In The 1920's

    • 482 Words
    • 2 Pages

    From 1850 to 1914 the intimacy of a husband and wife was kept a secret. “The home was a center of secrecy. More often than not, at the heart of that secrecy was sex” (Sherman and Salisbury, 2009, p. 672). Unfortunately, in the twentieth century, the sexual activity of a man and a woman in and out of marriage is often discussed and no longer private. To see how society allowed this intimacy to become known we must look at the change in morality of the 1920’s; this can be done by examining the change in fashion and how the culture of the 1920’s affected the way we think about sex today.…

    • 482 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In society there are tons of issues, from social issues to racial issues and so on. Throughout the semester we’ve watched numerous movies and read stories. Many dealt with different issues and many also related. Here are a few examples and stories we’ve read and watched which shows human condition “Saturday Night Fever”, by John Badham, “Do the right thing”, by Spike Lee, The death of Yusuf Hawkins, 20 Years later, by Sewell Chan, and The killers by Ernest Hemingway.…

    • 1491 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Throughout the recent 100 years, countless dystopia novelists have depicted worlds comparable to our own, however none with as many shocking parallels as the utopia created by Aldous. Morally there are many similarities between our society and the one depicted in the Brave New World. These include sexuality, drug use, and social classes. The first moral likeness between the Brave New World and our society, is our understanding of sexuality.…

    • 290 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    When people study history they rarely learn about the sexual history of the United States; and, how it evolved from courting and brothels to dating and prostitution. Love for Sale takes place in New York City, NY, from 1900 to 1945, it journeys through the major events that occurred in the U.S., World War I, Great Depression, and World War II. The author, Elizabeth Alice Clement, is an assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. The central argument of Love for Sale is, “Profoundly shaped by women’s economic inequality and insecurities, all three practices-courtship, treating, and prostitution-reflected the negotiations in which women and men engaged over the economic and social value of sex.” Clement’s purpose is to help the readers understand the transformations courting, treating, and prostitution had in 1900-1945 in New York City.…

    • 1401 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Sensuous Woman

    • 486 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Reading the “Sensuous Woman” by Ihara Saikaku reminds me of the times when the elderly members of my family would come over to my grandparents’ house and reminisce about the stories of their youth. I never cared about the actual details of the story, instead I loved listening to the lesson that each story taught. By reading her life stories, I would definitely consider asking for her advice. Even though her stories may not be morally accepted by many people, they still tell a story that many women and men should hear.…

    • 486 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Analysis Of Updike's A & P

    • 1261 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The story I have chosen to base my best of the best essay on is Updike, “A & P” which was written in 1961. The reason I chose this short story is that it quickly arranges a detailed setting which is easily identified in the reader’s mind. This story is written in the first person experience of Sammy who is working in a grocery store which is located in a rural, yet touristy, area that is five miles from the beach. The plot is set when Sammy tells the story of being behind a cash register which the reader can easily identify with because everyone has experienced this setting from early childhood all the way to adulthood.…

    • 1261 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    “The change in woman & the shift in Feminine gender roles in the “roaring” 1920’s” by Frances Bullen This essay explores how the effect of gender movements changed during the flapper movement in the 1920’s, mainly focusing on the feminine gender roles. The roles of gender changed after ww1 and when the woman finally got the vote, Society changed for women after they got suffrage Received the right to vote and brought in prohibition. Historian Michael Lerner asserted, “women had the right to enjoy themselves socially as much as men did, whether through drinking, sex, or indulging in the pleasures of urban nightlife.” Woman gained the freedom which they didn't have before ww1, they were to stay at home to be a ‘house wife’. This essay will study how the woman gradually became more indented and got the freedom they wanted, plus showing the woman through…

    • 1448 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Connie, the protagonist of a time period where women are seen as objects, follows society’s expectations. Joyce Carol Oates wrote “Where are you going, where have you been?” at a time when women were not respected by men. In “Where are you going, where have you been?”, Connie is approached by a man named Arnold Friend. Friend was very persistent about getting Connie to leave town with him.…

    • 1526 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Moral Reform Movement

    • 1377 Words
    • 6 Pages

    The moral reform movement was a collective effort by ill-equipped parents, “settlement workers and vice reformers joined with club leaders, probation officers, social workers, and sex educators” to combat the scourge of prostitution and to bring under control the newly sexualized population of young working women in the 1900’s (Alexander, 1995, p. 41). Once the young women got a taste of freedom, they “profess utter lack of respect for their parents and contempt for their home life” and “habitually have immoral relations with boys and men without expecting or accepting financial reward or gain” though “some of them are already willing and anxious to begin a life of professional immorality” (Alexander, 1995, p. 40). Prior to this new sexualization…

    • 1377 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Carley Cockrum Dr. Liang Sociology 29 September 2015 The Invention of Heterosexuality The “Invention of Heterosexuality”, by Jonathan Katz, is an outline of his views on how heterosexuality and homosexuality are modern creations. His article traces the historical process by which these sexualities were created.…

    • 1403 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The rise of new forms of sexual control stemmed from a cultural shift that was occurring throughout the nineteenth century in America. This shift was the rise of the middle class— a small part of the population defined by the privacy of the home and principles such as the importance of childrearing and sobriety. The middle class held significantly different values from the ones afforded to the working class and the sharp contrast between the classes led to new sexual authorities creating definitions of sexuality based on status. The advent of public versus private spheres also characterized this time and the ideal of sexual privacy led to the creation of the “natural woman,” a view that to be womanly is to be chaste. Between 1860 and 1930,…

    • 1665 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Carole S. Vance, who wrote the Please and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality in 1984, provides a historical account of the issues surrounding societies perceptions, beliefs, and expectations of women sexuality. Vance explores several factors that bring light to the ways in which women’s sexual non-conformist behaviour remained invisible. Vance begins her paper stating, “the tension between sexual danger and sexual pleasure is a powerful one is women’s lives” (Vance, 1). This statement reinforces the duality that exists within society in context to women’s sexuality. Historically women have been situated within a male dominated society, dictated by the patriarchal structures that pervades all most all facets of society, including; the political,…

    • 1431 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    From the beginning, specific gender roles can be viewed in numerous occasions shown to depict the time period of which the movie is presented. In the commencement of the movie, a dinner scene examines a young girl as her mother instructs the proper self presentation at a dinner table. During the early 1910’s, gender roles provided a specific etiquette for which a female should present passive and submissive qualities. Moreover, women demonstrated unique skills that may be associated with cultural expectations and social class…

    • 1244 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Incest is wrong in every way possible and you can’t believe that it still happens and that it’s just in books, plays, poems. For example, Buried Child a play written by Sam Shepard leaves the family shatters the play along the story line and towards the end of the play he breaks the American family with no way to unite. Sam Shepard lived in the era where people did not show case their relationship in front of others. Furthermore, when you take the first step into taking a leap where everybody is hesitant, but Shepard took that step. Shepard face many problems when he wanted his play to be out in theaters but eventually people started actually understood all the mysteriously dark secrets Shepard hid under the audience eyes until the very end of the play, when every secret and relationship are revealed.…

    • 950 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A) Gayle Rubin’s “sex hierarchy: the charmed circle vs. the outer limits” is a chart that displays society’s view on what is correct and incorrect sexual practice. The inner part of the circle is what is seen as “normal” sex while the outer circle is deemed “abnormal” or bad sex. The inner and outer circle categories are polar opposites of one another treating sexuality in black and white terms that states that there is only one proper way to have sex. This approved form of sex takes form as a heterosexual, monogamous, married couple of the same age who only have sex with only their own bodies in a private place to make children by means of vanilla sex, this practice is without any porn, toys or money for service transactions. Any sexual practice that differs from this ideology is considered to wrong, sinful, and unnatural.…

    • 1037 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays