Norman Bates: The Real Evil

Hello my dear readers, today I would like to introduce to you the newest category of my blog. "Analyzing Evils." This category is where I talked and discussed all scariest people in the history. Both fiction and real life. I came to this idea when I watched or listen to many true crimes and movies where villains are in the shape of evils. Each week I will try the best to talk about one evil. Ok, now get into it with our first evil, who is very familiar to us.

Screenshot from the movie

If anyone is a fan of horror movies, they will be familiar with the name “Norman Bates” who was a fictional serial killer in the trilogy film “Psycho,” based on the book by Robert Bloch and also based on the real-life serial killer Ed Gein. That makes the behavior and the action of Norman Bates formal deviance. Norman Bates was a young man running the Bates Motel near the freeway.

But behind that lovely face and a charming smile with a kind personality, everybody immediately believed in him, in what he said but they never knew that behind that, he was a monster. He lived with his mother who turned out to be not an ordinary woman. She was always jealous when Norman took a girl home. But Norman always loved his mother. Even after she died. Like his mother, Norman never accepted that there was another man who loved her. Then, he killed them both. Norman stole his mother’s corpse, dressed like his mother, and talked like his mother because he wanted to be with her every day. That is not normal, and it is so sick of his behavior and his crime. Norman dressed up as his mother to commit murder.

Informal deviance in Norman Bates’ behavior was shown through the way he talked about his mother all the time. In the movie, Norman talked to Marion when they had dinner in the motel office. Marion was tired of hearing him talk about his mother, the way he talked about her proved that he was a mama’s boy and worshiped her. Norman said. “A boy's best friend is his mother.” He let his mother control his life and forced him to do anything she wanted, including murder. Inside Norman’s mind, there was no “him” but only “mother”. Norman Bates could have been a normal person, but the way he lived with his mother and how his mother controlled his life had created monstrous and deviant behavior inside him. Looking at the picture I found, this is the face of a cold blood monster who was ready to kill anyone who upset him and his mother. Norman Bates would never be normal again.