Response #6: Irony Analysis

 The movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock has many ironies, one of them is dramatic irony. A dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the character doesn't know about. For example when Marion Crane was in the shower we saw the figure behind the curtains. The audience know that there's someone the but Marion doesn't know and that is what irritates the audience because the killer is right there and yet Marion doesn't notice. Also when Sam kept asking Norman about how he was going to afford to move away or start a new life unless he had money. Sam was trying to make Norman confess that he had the forty-thousand dollars. When the truth is the money was in swamp, Norman didn't know that inside the newspaper was the money. The audience knows where the money but Sam doesn't know that and that's what it makes it a dramatic irony.

This kind of irony makes the audience irritating but also create a tension and suspense. It lures the audience more deeper in the movie. It makes you want to scream at the screen even though the characters can't hear you. Makes you want to pull your hair or bite on your nails just waiting on what's going to happen. And that my friend is dramatic irony.