Attempting to live unconstrained/ uncontrolled by people’s own conventions/ morals. You end up following morals that were taught to you by someone that originally had a great deal of control in the end. In Orson Welles’ film, Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane is trying to win the love of the people in his life by breaking all the conventions that he was taught in his youth. As he grows in age, he conforms to the morals taught to him as a child. This creates a habitat of wanting to control people in a situations. Kane portrays this by controlling who loves him and how. This switch between personal conventions in an attempt to have control over people conveys Kane’s character flaw, preventing him from being able to develop into the person he …show more content…
With Kane’s reflection trapped in the mirror, Leland and Bernstein discuss what may come to be of Kane and the Inquirer. At this time, Kane thinks he has all the power. He’s so beloved that he has a song about himself. Kane begins to lose the control when the opposing runner threaten to release the scandal about Susan Alexander, his wife states he had only one choice and that it was already made for him. He refused to accept that. Kane couldn’t accept knowing that someone else was controlling his ideas and actions. This ironic to audience, for we know decisions have been being made for Kane his whole life without him knowing. As long as he didn’t know, he thought he had control. To keep control of the what was being released about himself, Kane had the Inquirer print about the scandal. If he wasn’t going to be able to control everyone’s own beliefs on the scandal, Kane was going to control what they thought of the circumstance. He still lost the love and control over the voter and now his ex-wife. After the election, Kane’s character flaw starts to become present. In the Inquirer office with Bernstein, the camera angle was low, where throughout the film this had been representing dominance between other characters, it portrays Kane’s perspective of himself. How he dealt with the scandal makes him still think he has the upper hand. This is because he believes he’s making his own choices and following his own morals. Though slowly, signs such as when he talks “about ‘the people’ like [he owned] them,’ show his shift in morals caring about the people hearing the truth to caring about him. Leland describes Kane’s obsession with control escalating when his relationship with Susan Alexander becomes