Norman Bates is a fictional character created by writer Robert Bloch as the central character in his novel Psycho. The character is based on real-life murderer Ed Gein. He is the main character in the Psycho movie franchise.
Both the novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation explain that Bates suffers severe emotional abuse as a child at the hands of his mother, Norma, who preaches to him that sex is evil and that women (except herself) a...
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Norman Bates is a fictional character created by writer Robert Bloch as the central character in his novel Psycho. The character is based on real-life murderer Ed Gein. He is the main character in the Psycho movie franchise.
Both the novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation explain that Bates suffers severe emotional abuse as a child at the hands of his mother, Norma, who preaches to him that sex is evil and that women (except herself) are whores. The two of them live alone together in an unhealthy state of emotional dependence after the death of Bates's father. When Bates is a teenager, his mother takes a lover, making him insanely jealous. Bates then murders both of them with strychnine and preserves his mother's corpse. Bates develops dissociative identity disorder, assuming his mother's personality, repressing her death as a way to escape the guilt of murdering her. He inherits his mother's house, where he keeps her corpse, and the family motel in Fairvale, California....
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