Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Psycho? Put your knowledge to
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Q. What does the house in Psycho symbolize?
Hope for a happy future.
Sam's inability to escape from his debts.
Norman's psyche, with his mother sitting in his head.
Marion's love of Sam.
Q. What is the first example of voyeurism in the film?
Norman looking through the peephole.
Marion's eye looking at Norman.
The police watching Norman.
The camera shooting into the hotel room where Marion and Sam just had sex.
Q. The thrusting knife as murder weapon in Psycho suggests
Norman is symbolic of ancient sword fighters.
Norman does not have enough money for a gun.
Norman's assaults are a symbol for sex.
Norman is cut off from his mother.
Q. The stuffed birds symbolize
Norman's mother, who is preserved but dead.
Arbogast, who flies down the stairs.
Cassidy, who is plucked.
The fact that the film moves very slowly, like a stuffed bird.
Q. Marion shows she takes pleasure in being bad when she
laughs as she drives away from the policeman.
suggests that Norman might put his mother in an asylum.
smiles at the thought of how Cassidy will react to being robbed.
makes plans with Sam to meet again for sex.