Norman Bates

Effectively Responding to Change Norman Vincent Peale worked as an American Minister and author known for his work about positive thinking. A famous quote by him preaches, “Change your thoughts and you can change the world.” This quote relates to my essay very well because when you change your thinkings based on something else, good things can happen.One can respond to change more effectively through reading about others who have preserved through all challenges. A person’s attitude towards…

When people follow their own rules, they will suffer consequences. To show that this is true, we will examine Paris Trout, the main character in a novel called “Paris Trout” by Pete Dexter who follow his own rules and suffer consequences. After this is completed, we will examine the four people in our society who follow their own rules and suffer consequences. Paris Trout is a well respected white citizen living in Cotton Point, Georgia with his beautiful wife, Hanna Trout a…

Whether it is between men and women or different races, we live in a world where inequality exists in every corner. The type of inequality I will be focusing on is not between the sexes or races, but between the rich and the poor. As Plutarch once said, “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” Between the two essays, they provide many similarities and differences in opinion regarding the importance of economic inequality, the access of education…

values. In the 1960 thriller Psycho, the anti-hero Norman Bates was introduced to society. Norman, in this movie, is a middle-aged serial killer who justifies his wrongdoings by “becoming” his mother. In his eyes, it is actually his deceased mother Norma who is the murderer, not himself. Now, you might be wondering, how in the world would it be possible to empathize with a mentally ill serial killer? More recently, in 2013, the contemporary prequel Bates Motel made…

characters: Norman Bates of the Psycho franchise, Leatherface of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, and Buffalo Bill of The Silence of the Lambs franchise. Of these characters, Norman Bates from the Psycho novel is the most believable portrayal of Ed Gein, while Buffalo Bill is the most accurate…

with Norman Bates— a man who is still wary of his recent plight and proves he would rather keep his situation under wraps than go to the authorities. Seventh Shade The seventh shade is descriptive of unsolved murders that now surrounds Bates Motel. After the private detector becomes unresponsive, Sam and Lila Crane, Marion’s sister, takes matter into their own hands and sets the stage for a potential murder. Eighth Shade The eight shade reflects what the viewers speculated all along: Norman…

Interpreting the Movie Psycho Using Freudianism Who is Norman Bates? Was he born psychotic? Why did he form an unusual attachment to a verbally abusive mother? One might pose these questions after watching Alfred Hitchcock’s classic monochrome thriller, Psycho. Although one might initially believe that Psycho is only a film about scandalous homicides and horrors, however, it essentially documents the life of Norman Bates suffering from mental illnesses. Moreover, 1{Sigmund Freud’s concept of…

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…

“Psycho,” where Bate found as guilty, psychotherapist explains the reason why Norman Bate suffered from the illness of identical split, and how his illness of being a mother and wearing women's clothes is different from homosexual gender. The illness Dissociative identity disorder can define as a character that subconscious mind created by the presence of two or more distinct personality states, which followed by one physical body. After reviewing the mental illness that Norman Bate suffered…

From the start of the film the viewer followers Marione, up into her unfortunate death at Bates Motel. However, during Marione’s living moment’s at the motel, the audience follows Marione to a window where we hear two voices shouting, one clearly Norman and the other an older woman, who Norman says is his mother. This scene is the start of all the scenes that work toward convincing the audience that Norman Bates mother is alive. It restricts Marione from knowing the true source of the noise…