Norman Bates
Norman Bates is a male character who features in Psycho.
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Norman Bates
His birth was noted to had been a complicated event that caused his mother to have long-lasting physical effects. According to research conducted by journalist Tracy Venable, when Norman was an infant, his aunt, Emma Spool murdered his father and briefly kidnapped Norman before being institutionalized. However, Norman would later state that when he was six years old, his father died after being stung to death by bees. During the funeral, a ticklish Norman accidentally laughed in response to his mother's touch and was reprimanded by his mother for it. Following his father's death, he began to show signs of being mentally disturbed. At some point, he took up the hobby of taxidermy. In Fairvale, Norman experienced an abusive upbringing from his mother, who preached to Norman that aside from herself all women were fallen and evil creatures unworthy of love and trust. As a result, he led an extraordinarily sheltered life with Norma being the only person he knew, causing him to become desperately dependent on her for companionship. On one occasion, while comforting his mother during a storm, he experienced an erection and ran to his room. His mother followed and discovered a women's undergarment catalogue and forced him to dispose of it, then stating that she would eventually wish she had been firmer with him. He began to spy on his mother, noticing that she was 'losing her mind'. On another occasion, after dousing his mother with orange flower water, she playfully tackled him, causing him to have another erection, felt by Norma this time. Thrown into a rage, she put him in a dress and lipstick and called him a girl before locking him in a closet, all as a way to make him forget about his penis.
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- Norman Bates was created by Robert Bloch where he featured in the setting of Psycho (1959).
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- Psycho: (1959)
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