Norman Bates – Psychopath Analysis

‘You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps — clamped
in them — and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw but only at the
air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch.’

Norman Bates is the main character in Hitchcock’s movie ‘Psycho’. At first,

he seems just the ‘boy-next-door’ type of guy, who owns a cheap motel and lives
with his mother.
Only that the mother doesn’t exist anymore, she’s only a part of Norman’s
imagination. Because of the fact that he poisoned her, he decides to compensate
her absence, by saving her body, preserving it and even trying to talk in her
voice. But can he handle the all too different personalities?
He fells in love with a client, Marion, but soon, the Mother’s personality
intercedes and so Marion ends up by being stabbed with a kitchen knife while
taking a shower.
That’s when we understand that the Mother’s personality took over quite
often, leaving Norman lost in the labyrinth of his mind.
All in all, Norman Bates was a very complex psycho-killer character and a
good thing to know is that his personality was inspired by one of America’s most
dangerous killers, Ed Gein.