The Perfect Murder Alfred Hitchcock Rhetorical Techniques

While they are taking one of their many jaunts around Paris, the pair come across a newspaper describing a ghoulish unsolved case involving the murder of a woman: Lady L’Espanaye and her daughter Camille. It seems the Madame was found with her neck so ravaged, her head just fell off when moved. Her daughter cruelly contorted and shoved up a

There are a several major differences between Roald Dahl’s short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter” and the television adaption by Alfred Hitchcock. One key difference is that in the short story, Mary Maloney’s thoughts and feelings are distinctly expressed, but it is not the same in the television episode. For example as a murderer, in the story, Mrs. Maloney’s feelings are openly posed of how she did not really mean killing her husband. Likewise, her thoughts are also shown, such as her purpose of hiding the true reason of his death, which was because of her unborn child. She did not want to go to jail. Unlike the TV episode, all this makes readers feel pathos for the character, even though she has done something inexcusable and unforgivable. In the television episode, pity for the the character is much more less, since her feelings and purpose are not as explicit . Another difference is that in Dahl’s short story, since it is written in third person limited, we merely know things said by the main character or that has been said to them, but not what is said by other characters among

Summary: In Truman Capote‘s, In Cold Blood, the story of the 1959 Clutter Family murder is revealed. The audience is introduced to Perry Smith and Dick Hickock as they tune their car and acquire both a shotgun and a knife to rob Herbert Clutter of his “vast” fortune hidden, in what they assumed to be, a safe. Little did these men know that Herb’s fortune was hidden in the checks he used in substitute for money, and by the time they came to this realization, it was too late. What was supposed to be a simple and easy robbery turned into a ruthless homicide when the partner’s carried out their promise to kill any witnesses remaining. Eventually, after being tied up, the Clutter family was ruthlessly killed by the fatal click of a gun. Leaving with about fifty dollars, Perry and Dick escaped to Mexico and left authorities clueless until a former prison associate by the name of Floyd Wells informed the police that he believed the crime was committed by Dick Hickock due to their prior conversations regarding the Clutter’s wealth and lifestyle. As Perry and Dick returned to the states in hope of finding more money, they were caught, arrested, and eventually hung for the crimes they committed.

Hitchcock obviously had to spend some time to create a murder that would stick into the minds of the audience without breaking any of the rules laid out in the Hays Production Code.

In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles, written in 1916, two female characters are left in the kitchen of a house where a murder has been committed, while the menfolk search around for clues. The men largely ignore the women and are mocking of them and their petty concerns on the occasions that they do speak to them. While the men are about looking for the “cold hard facts” of the murder, the women are in the kitchen bothering with “trifles” that display all of the details about the wife’s life and, most probably, her motivation for the murder. In this play, Susan Glaspell has written male characters that clearly display the “Ethics of Justice”, a sort of right is right and wrong is wrong view; while the women clearly embody the “Ethics of Care”, a view that takes relationships and feelings into account when judging the morality of actions.

Charles Cortimiglia, a grocer’s wife, repeatedly denied the gruesome attack of her husband by a large man in dark clothing with an axe. The husband died and fell to the floor, and the wife was next on the list with her baby. While she asked and begged for mercy, the Axeman came down with the deadly weapon and killing the infant and leaving the mother with a fractured skull (Taylor). Notice the man who died was a grocer, maybe not Italian but the fact still connects with the other murders.

The protagonist, Mrs. Wright, is trying to keep from being accused of murder and this is why she hides the dead bird. The two women, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, begin to warm up to what really has happened and throughout the story continue to grow more sympathetic towards Mrs. Wright. The suspense is built up very well trying to figure out whether or not she will get convicted. In the climax, the two women find Mrs. Wright's dead bird and realize what has happened. They are faced with the dilemma of whether or not to turn her in for what they now know she is guilty of. The reader does not find out what happens but is left to assume the best ending. Although the plot of this story is not very exciting, it does achieve its central purpose of showing the women leaving the men out in the cold and uniting together. Throughout the plot and structure they were some instances of irony that were used very well.

Bruno is more charismatic than the all-American Guy and his potentially destabilising presence can be contained only by his violent expulsion from the diegesis just as their presence was contained by the government. Hitchcock attributes the homosexual menace to those heterosexual women who positioned themselves as subjects of desire than the gay men and women who avoided detection. Corber argues that “...the shot of Miriam’s murder in her glasses seems to acknowledge the films complicity with the production of a female subject who is desired rather than desiring” (118). Miriam’s murder is not shown directly on the screen, but is reflected in her glasses which act as a mirror in which her castration and by extension the castration of the

The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is type of murder mystery that takes place in the early 1900’s. The play begins when the sheriff Mr. Peters and county attorney Mr. Henderson come to attempt to piece together what had happen on the day that Mr. Wright was murder. While investigating the seen of the murder, they are accompanied by the Mr. Hale, Mrs. Hale and Mr. Peters. Mr. Hale had told that Mrs. Wright was acting strange when he found her in the kitchen. After taking information from Mr. Hale, the men leave the women in the kitchen and go upstairs at seen of the murder. The men don’t realize the plot of the murder took place in the kitchen.

His family’s confidence never dwindled; time after time, they joined a crusade to save Richard’s soul. Tensions began to increase when Aunt Addie enrolled Richard in the religious school where she taught. Labeled as a black sheep, Richard continued to defy the iron fist of his family. The conflict between Aunt Addie and Richard exploded when he was accused of eating walnuts in class. Richard knew the boy in front of him was guilty, but he abided by the “street code” and said nothing. Despite Richard’s denial, Aunt Addie did not conduct an investigation and immediately beat Richard in front of the class. After submitting to his aunt, he finally confessed the guilty suspect. Rather than to commend Richard for the truth, Aunt Addie attempted to beat him again after school. However, brandishing a knife, Richard defended himself. He had stood up for his dignity and pride, something that was worth more to him than anything.

I’ll give you all the money I’ve got!” (O’Connor 355). She is pleading the Misfit for her life only by saying the word lady repeatedly and offering him the money. She is also praising the Misfit by calling him a good man and trying to save her life. She was also careless about her family. When her family is taken down into the woods, she continues to talk to Misfit. She ignores the sound of when her son and rest of the family were being shot. She is apparently oblivious to many things. She was ignoring everything but the Misfit. “The shirt came flying at him and landed on his shoulders and he put it on. The grandmother couldn’t name what the shirt reminded her of” (O’Connor 354). The grandmother doesn’t even realize that shirt was her son Baileys. She had no interest in knowing where that shirt came from and what happened to my family. For the concern of her life only, she tries to persuade the Misfit the same way she tried with her family. “I know you’re a good man. You don’t look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people!” (O’Connor 352). She is trying to manipulate the Misfit and hopes that he will bear her. She is thinking about no one else but the sake for herself. However she fails once again to influence the Misfit.

In the movie M (1931) which is about a serial killer who kidnapped young girls. This movie released after the WWI in German. The killer name is Beckert who killed eight young girls without any evidence and clues because he lures the children into his confidence by candy and other such child friendly items. Then only evidence the police had was written hand-note. Then he was trying to kidnap one girl name Elsie where he bought a balloon from a blind bagger to make a friendly relations so that no one can understand his motive but he was whistling in-front of that bagger then that girls also killed by him; after that the nervousness and tension was increasing through all over the place where police and also the criminal groups were trying to find the murderer at cross purposes. The criminals were trying to find the murderer because in that time police were doing raid to all the private and unofficial lodges, hotels, and also arrested the suspicious people.

The two women are collecting items to bring to Mrs. Wright. It is Mrs. Wright’s house that is being probed through. She is the suspected murderer. There are also three men investigating in the house at the same time. To give credit to the men, one did say, “What would we do without the ladies?” However, he did it in the same breath as accusing Mrs. Wright of being a bad housekeeper. The men leave the women in the kitchen and stop though a couple of times. During one of the passing’s the men laugh at the women. The women were wondering if Mrs. Wright was going to knot or quilt a quilt she was piecing. The men mock this query. Shortly after that, the women piece together the events that likely caused the murder. Incidentally, the women do not reveal the probable narrative to the men. Did they keep it a secret to protect Mrs. Wright? Did they keep quiet because they didn’t think that the men would believe them? Or did the women keep it to themselves for fear of being

A brutal double murder took place on the evening of 2 February 1933, at the Lancelin home, in the town of Le Mans. The Papin sisters, Christine, 28 and Lea, 21, maids of the Lancelin murdered two middle-class women, Madame Lancelin and her daughter Genevieve. The maids had not simply killed the women, but had gouged their eyes out with their fingers while they were alive and had then used a hammer and knife to reduce both women to a bloody pulp. In both cases, there were no wounds to the body. Apart from some gashes to the daughter 's legs, the full force of the attack was directed at the heads and the victims were left literally unrecognizable. The maids made no attempt to escape and were found together in bed, naked and in each other 's arms. The sisters confessed readily to the crime and the weapons used had been a kitchen knife, a hammer and a pewter pot (Edwards & Reader, n.d).

Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980), the “Master of Suspense”, was a English film director, who was well known for his use of suspense and psychological elements to shock and surprise his audience. Hitchcock was known for his use of recurring themes, motifs and plot devices, such as the use of birds, hand motifs, the audience as a voyeur, mothers, blonde women, and sexuality. He was also very technical in his editing, using filming techniques such as deep focus, point of view, close up and wide, tracking shots. Montage was also a technique he used frequently in his films. He believed that by using visuals, he could convey thoughts and emotions just as well as dialogue could.