Response 6: Irony Analysis

      The slasher film Psycho used every film technique to intensify the viewing experience. Alfred Hitchcock, the film's director, especially used irony to manipulate the audience. One example of irony that Hitchcock used in this film is how we know what happened to Marion Crane after she went missing. We know that she was murdered in the shower at the Bates Motel and was thrown in the pond. We know where the $40,000 dollars she stole went. This type of irony is dramatic irony, or the irony that we the audience knows something that the character in the movie or story doesn't know.
      Hitchcock's use of dramatic irony affected the audience pretty well. The audience knows the whereabouts of Marion Crane and what goes on at the Bates Motel. Since the audience knows that, when a character goes to the Bates Motel, the audience immediately becomes worried or predicts that something bad is going to happen to that character. They expect something to happen to them in every corner of the motel. The audience begins to become aware of everything at the hotel, like every door has the killer behind it.