Response 6: Irony Analysis to Psycho

             In the movie Psycho there is three different types of Irony that Alfred Hitchcock uses. Throughout the film Alfred uses Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic Irony purposely to get the audience uncomfortable and shocked. In a specific scene Alfred Hitchcock used Situational Irony. Its the scene where Sam distracts Norman while Lila goes to look inside Normans house for his mother. Norman starts to get anxious and suspicious so he walks to the parlor and looks outside the window and sees someone in his house. Norman hits Sam in the shoulder with a big can and then runs to his house. Lila sees him coming and hides in the downstairs cellar but under that cellar there's another cellar but for fruit. Norman goes up stairs and Lila thinks about leaving but sees a door and goes down to the fruit cellar where "Mother" is. Lila sees her and then taps her but its nothing but a preserved dead body. Next thing you know Norman comes and tries to stab Lila but Sam comes to the rescue and takes the knife away from him. But this whole time Norman wasn't Norman. There was two personalities in him his dead mom and Norman, but at that time Mother had completely took him over which is ironic. 
            Situational Irony has an effect on the audience. Situational irony is when something happens and you expected something completely different to happen. This type of irony has you talking to the movie screen. Like this audience did while watching this scene in the movie Psycho.  This Situational scene had the audience anxious and terrified about whats going to happen next.  This scene had me the audience jumping and sitting half way out of their chair with their eyes covered. After that scene the audience was just jaw dropped.  No one new that Norman had a split personality and that there was no more Norman there was only Mother left.