... his courtship of Susan Alexander and her disastrous opera career, and his decline into the remote master of Xanadu. Another aspect that I consider to be crucial is that Citizen Kane contains the elements of great drama, the characters, the structure, the simultaneously fascinating and confounding things you find in Shakespearean tragedies. Shakespeare might have put these characters on stage ... films -- is a tragic, I'd say Faustian one, wherein idealism and great power give way to hubris and eventual downfall. In characterization, narrative structure, and the functional use of symbolis...

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Citizen Kane Citizen Kane has many themes. Some of these themes include corruption of power, corruption of money, greed, materialism, need for love, abandonment, ambiguity of Kane's self, stolen childhood, and lost innocence. Orson Welles is able to bring out these themes through use ... movie are corruption of power and lost childhood. The theme of Kane's corruption of power helps develop another theme, that is, Kane's lost childhood. Throughout the movie, Thompson, a reporter, is trying to find out what "rosebud" means. "Rosebud" is what Kane says right before his death. He thinks by findi...

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The film Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, opens with a picture of a castle with a window that has a light turned on. As the backgrounds begin to change into a closer view of the castle, then a view of the castle from the reflection of the water surrounding it, we are drawn into the window as a man falls dead with the last words "Rosebud" coming from his mouth. We ... only bad-mouthing people, but by writing articles that had no purpose to them other than to amuse himself. Throughout the movie, we see that "rosebud" is played up to have some major significance in Kane's life. Rosebud is definitel...

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... is one of the many reasons why "Rosebud" represents on some level that Kane regretted not having lived a quieter, simpler life at home with his mother. His inability to form true, loving relationships gives a psychological explanation of Kane, which stems back to the separation as a boy with his mother. "Citizen Kane" explains what Rosebud is, but not what Rosebud really means. We could interpret it to mean ... a great loss in Kane's life, a loss of the security, innocence and happiness of a child that was taken away and could ... never be given back. As one word could never explain a ...

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Citizen Kane, produced by Orson Welles and acclaimed as one of the greatest films of our time, was composed of many different layers. Through symbolic imagery and creative mise- ... . At this time in the movie, one might have assumed that we would get the information necessary to find out the meaning of "Rosebud."" Instead, we were told about Kane's affair with Suzanne Alexander and Kane's attempt to make Suzanne a great opera singer. Interpretation led the audience to the impression that he had become a full-fledged tyrant "power ... search, and seemed to know much less than we would expect...

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Citizen Kane, produced by Orson Welles and acclaimed as one of the greatest films of our time, was composed of many different layers. Through symbolic imagery and creative mise- ... . At this time in the movie, one might have assumed that we would get the information necessary to find out the meaning of "Rosebud."" Instead, we were told about Kane's affair with Suzanne Alexander and Kane's attempt to make Suzanne a great opera singer. Interpretation led the audience to the impression that he had become a full-fledged tyrant "power ... search, and seemed to know much less than we would expect...

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