Alfred Hitchcock's Specific Audience Reached by Psycho and The Birds

2. It manifests society’s refusal to convict lawbreakers by relying on official lawlessness—a clear demonstration of our commitment to the rule of law that states that no person, not even a law enforcement official, is above the law.

*****The key principle made in Beccaria 's On Crimes and Punishments is that punishment should be basically fitting to the crime that was committed.

It is common knowledge that crime exists all over the world and that justice and punishment may vary in different countries and societies. However, how justice and punishment is enforced in a society and globally is not common knowledge. Global justice refers to the belief that the world is unjust; while social justice, in a manner of speaking, refers to the fair treatment of everyone in a society.(“Social Justice”). Both social and global justice value human rights, remove inequality, and holds people accountable for fair practices.(“Social Justice”). If someone commits the same crime as another person, for example, they should receive the same punishment. That is what most people would be inclined to believe, but in the reading “The Moral Ambivalence of Crime in an Unjust Society” by Jeffrey Reiman, crime and justice is reviewed and defined in an uncommon way. Reiman discusses justice in a society where a crime was committed against him and his wife.

In relationship to ethics, I would like to begin with a quote by human rights activist, Desmond Tutu, “To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.”

　　Punishment is a necessary evil, it is required to deter criminals from committing crimes and to serve as an example to other potential criminals

When citizens stand up against a crook, murderer, or rapist, the punishment lies with the man who rid the world of the injustice; the man that can not let injustice stand is the man that the law says is out of hand. Why should the good be punished?

however, is that no one deserves to be executed, no matter how barbarous the crime is.

We have the responsibility to punish those who deserve it, but only to the degree they

No matter how similar two stories can be there is always different success not because of anything but the hidden morals and teachings. In Daphne Du Maurier’s novella The Birds a wartime vet and his family that lives on a farm where he works finds out the birds are being aggressive and him and his family struggle to survive the bird attacks, but what caught his attention was the birds don’t attack when the tide is low. In Hitchcock’s Film, A young woman from San Francisco, Ms. Daniels, runs into a man, Mr. Brenner asking for love birds in a bird shop where she was at, he ends up not buying them. Over the weekend Ms. Daniels delivered the birds to him in bodega bay where he lived, over the weekend she was asked to say by the family during that

Also justice should be applied and any man who breaks the law should be prosecuted.

Birds is a book that was originally thought of by Dauphne Du Maurier as a horror story in 1963, later that same year being turned into a horror movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Though the movie was created as a recreation of the book, it holds many differences that are highly noticeable. Possibly one of the strongest differences between the book and movie, is the characters names as well as how they affect the plot; in the book, the main character’s name is Net who does not seem like the type of guy to go too much out of his comfort zone or socialize with anyone without reasoning while Melanie, the main character in the movie was outgoing and very social. Also, throughout the movie more characters as well as settings were introduced creating

For thousands of years humanity has lived by the saying, “an eye for an eye”.

Actions are to be judged right or wrong mainly by their own consequences. Nothing else matters. Right actions are those that have the best consequences.

asks if she is OK. I think most people would if you saw this woman

Before the Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock made its way into theaters across the world, film was produced in a completely different way. Some of the elements that were in Psycho were things that nobody saw in movies before. According to Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman, when the movie came out, it took place in “an atmosphere of dark and stifling ‘50s conformity” and that the elements of the film “tore through the repressive ‘50s blandness just a potently as Elvis had.” (Hudson). Alfred Hitchcock changed the way that cinema was made by breaking away from the old, “safe” way of creating a movie and decided to throw all of the unwritten rules of film making out the window. The main ways he accomplished this task was by adding graphic violence, sexuality, and different ways to view the film differently than any other movie before its time.