![]() ![]() Hitchcock’s audience can learn practical lessons for the actions, thoughts and motivation of the director’s fictional characters. The director’s characterizations demonstrate the philosophy that there are “general truths about human nature” (Fromm 162). Most often, these pairings represent the battle between good and evil. You literally start seeing double! Hitch’s directorial genius utilized various techniques to expand on the theme of characters as doubles using pairs, look-alikes, mistaken identity, double-dealings, crisscrosses, shadows and reflected images. The more you look for the doubles, the more you see. The duplicity in these famous films comes in many forms. ![]() (New Oxford American Dictionary) Hitchcock expertly uses the theme of characters as doubles to demonstrate the struggle between good and evil, and to illuminate the role of mothers in popular culture. By definition, a doppelganger is a double of a person and it is typically an omen of bad luck or evil. Second, it refers to doubleness or pairs – the quintessential doppelganger. First, it refers to deceitfulness and double-dealing. Ironically, the definition of duplicity is two-fold. Alfred Hitchcock, the self-acclaimed “Master of Suspense” explores the theme of duplicity in three of his well-known American films: Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Strangers on a Train (1951), and Psycho (1960). Some struggles bring out the best in us, while other challenges force us to show our “dark side.” When pushed there, most humans are capable of doing things that would normally seem unthinkable. Some have repressed personality traits that are recessive until they come to the forefront because of an unusual challenges or unexpected event. The reality is this - all humans are flawed. “A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.” ![]()
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