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Montana State University-Bozeman English Teaching Minor, History Teaching Major, I plan to student teach Spring '08

Monday, September 25, 2006

Lower Layers to Citizen Kane

The story behind Citizen Kane seems to be that power does not bring love, or simply money doesn’t buy happiness. The moral is that all the wealth and power in the world are nothing compared to the love and adoration of a family. Kane use both wealth and power to mold Susan into the wife he wants, but he does not treat her with respect and adoration of a person and receives none from her. Is he a Hades figure that has abducted this young Persephone figure from her life and put her in his kingdom, only for her to escape? I’m not sure if I see this because it is there, or if I am just reconnecting a pattern we have been given for other stories in class.

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