Young Charlie takes on the guilt of her uncle because she knows about it and says nothing, and she is nearly killed because of this.
The idea of guilt and transference is clearly important in Shadow of a Doubt from 1943, and part of the fascination one has with this film is in seeing the ways in which this theme is presented. For Hitchcock, the hero was always actually guilty of something, some sin in his life, which he would have to pay for by suffering through this period of false accusation. One way this was seen was that the hero or heroine would often be accused of a crime he or she did not commit, but there is more to it than that. One of the themes found in the films of Alfred Hitchcock is known as the transference of guilt, a theme Hitchcock first used when he was still working in England and that he continued with his American films.
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