Norman Bates was completely under his mother’s influence. His mother
Norma Bates taught him that being a woman is a sin but she herself is the
holiest woman. She taught him to hate all women on the planet. He loved her
mother dearly but hated every female except her. Not to be mentioned that Norma
Bates had turned psycho due to unsuccessful love and Norman Bates inherited
this psychotic nature from his mother. Later Norma found a man who loved her
truly. Her mind changed but this relation was not welcomed by the teenager
Norman. One day he murdered both of them but guilt overpowered him. He burnt his
Step Dad’s corpse but preserved his mother’s and assumed that she couldn’t die.
Norma was a strong woman and Norman couldn’t believe that she died of his
hands.
From here the bloody game started…
Norman never believed that his mother was dead. And he always remembered
what she had told him about other women. Thereafter, dramatically a serial
murder of females started in the city. A woman dressed in long robe with a
knife in her hands would plunge the dagger bringing the captive to death. The police
went on heels but never found that woman. Connecting the links, it was
discovered that all women murdered, happened to be either Norman’s girlfriends
or acquaintances. Norman was arrested and he gave his statement that it was
actually his mother who was doing all this murders. He told the police that
every night his mother’s spirit leaves her body and enters his and commits all
the murders. Norman was diagnosed as a victim of DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY
DISORDER. He was mentally ill and assumed that actually his soul was under his
dead mother’s dominance who directed all the murders. Norman was jailed and
sent to mental hospital. But he escaped thrice from the mental hospital and
twice from the jail. The concept of escape via toilet or gutter was first seen
in the case of Norman Bates. Later he was spotted outside city and the police
preferred to encounter him rather than arresting that enemy of women…
Robert Bloch, the creator of
Norman Bates, came forward to declare it a complete fiction when the women had
developed a dead fear for handsome guys. Norman Bates was deadly handsome and
charming. He was soft-spoken and cool minded. He used his nature to lure women
and then bring them to death. Norman Bates is considered one of the deadliest
devils after Dracula. However, Dracula being a vampire was assumed a myth by
one and all but Norman Bates was never understood the same. Norman Bates
inspired a number of movies and stories. He is considered to be the first
psycho killer of fiction world. Many characters of Indian Cinema were inspired
from Norman Bates. Rahul Mehra, the central character of the movie Darr played
by Shahrukh Khan was highly inspired by Norman Bates. Exception only coming the
way was the motive of love and grudge. In the movie, the motive was psychotic
love unlike the grudge of Norman Bates. The role played by Kajol in the movie
Gupt was more or less similar. The escape from jail via gutters also came from
Norman Bates’ unmatchable mind. Norman Bates was the man who created terror
amongst women. No matter how many declarations Robert Bloch made to clarify the
fictional existence of Norman Bates, it is still considered that Norman Bates
lived once, the name being different.
It is still a question whether Norman Bates was actually fiction….????
I discovered all these facts while I was doing some research for the
villain of my novel “The Untrodden Ways”. I had to make the villain deadliest
of all. And I can say now, that Indian fiction has not seen any such psycho
villain as mine, recently. In case of Norman Bates, the grudge was against
females, in case of “The Untrodden Ways”, the grudge is against scientists…
