tsoever. The main character will likely become a part of the story through no fault of his/her own. For example, in Strangers on a Train, Guy Haines gets involved in a murder scheme because a stranger started a conversation with him on his way home. In both The Wrong Man and North by Northwest, the lead males' worlds are thrown into disarray when they become objects of mistaken identity. The epitome of this theme is in The Birds when the birds of Bodega Bay and subsequently elsewhere in California begin attacking the citizens for a reason that is never explained.
             The second theme we would find in the typical Hitchcock movie is that of original sin. In other words, we are all bad/evil and so is the world we live in. This concept is enforced by a reoccurring shot that Hitchcock uses in his films: a close-up on a characters hand covered with blood or a substance that symbolizes blood. In other words we all have blood on our hands. We saw this shot in The Lady Vanishes and Psycho as well as others that escape me. The idea of original sin is further ingrained through Hitchcock's storylines. In Notorious, Devlin and his boss Prescott are supposed to be the good guys, yet the could not be more cavalier about putting Alicia in a very dangerous situation as well as making her a prostitute of sorts in the meantime. In Strangers on a Train Hitchcock goes to great lengths to show that everybody has an evil si
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