Title: Hitchcock’s Feminine Mystique
Themes
For instance, trains featured heavily in many of his films for the distinct reason that he had a pronounced interest in them from his love of geography, maps, railways systems, and tram timetables that went back to his early school days.
Many of Hitchcock’s films are timeless and he’s been studied extensively across the world, since there are often parallels between his experiences and how they were reflected on screen.
Two themes that were also present in his films were:
Fear of authority
Female sexuality.
Like his affinity for trains, these themes were also rooted in events from his past that informed how he later worked them into his art form.To explore and understand why these two themes were so influential in his work, we must, therefore, first understand some of the events that shaped his interest in them.
Hitchcock’s Formative Years
Hitchcock was born to a working-class family but had a wealthy uncle who opened his eyes to the notion of class divisions in society.
One of the famous stories from his early childhood that Hitchcock loved to recount was the details of the notes his father would give him to take to police stations after he committed a minor transgression when he was five.
