In the movie ‘The Birds’, Alfred Hitchcock switches the position of power from humans to birds. Birds are normally passive creatures that rarely, if ever threaten any other animals. Hitchcock illustrates that the relationship between humans and animals is fragile, as are the relationships between humans themselves. In particular, the relationship between mother (Mrs. Brenner) and son (Mitch Brenner) is violated by the heroine, (Melanie Daniels). It seems that Melanie’s arrival at Bodega Bay causes, in

As Mrs. Brenner runs out of the house in shock, she stops and tries to explain to George what happened. She is unable to speak. She can only utter a few sounds. She then runs to her car, enters from the passenger side, and races all the way back home. Hitchcock may have had Mrs. Brenner enter from the passenger side to remind the audience that she is merely a passenger who is in his control. Even though she is driving the car, Hitchcock is the real driver. As she speeds away from the farm, dirt is kicked up behind the truck, leaving a trail of unsettled road lingering in the air behind her. As she approaches her home, the audience sees Mitch and Melanie speaking through the windshield and it looks for a moment that Mrs. Brenner will drive right into them. This scene depicts just one of the times Mrs. Brenner interrupts Mitch and Melanie’s developing romance. She makes a sharp turn and exits the car. Mitch asks her what is wrong and she pushes the couple aside with a look of disgust and runs into the house. She feels abandoned by her son and believes that she does not possess the strength to live on her own. Her son’s strength is all she has left of her deceased husband and without it she is alone and terrified.

some indirect way, the madness of the birds and their attack on humans. The birds’ madness parallels Mrs. Brenner’s obsession with keeping her son from ‘abandoning’ her. Thus, Melanie’s relationship with Mitch cannot develop. They are constantly interrupted either by Mrs. Brenner or another bird attack. In the end, the audience is left unsure of whether their relationship progresses. It seems that any hope they have for each other has been dissolved.

In the scene when Mrs. Brenn

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