Narcissism In The Rosebud

What is narcissism? There is no specific definition for it. In psychology, narcissism is a negative and bad character trait. Narcissists have an excessive pride and they obsess with self. In other words, they think they are better than others and only care about themselves. In fact, being confident can also be accused as narcissism. However, narcissism is more than self confidence. Nowadays, Generation Y is being claimed as narcissists and there are so many reason that the critics try to list it out to prove their claim. In my opinion, Generation Y is just adapt to the environment they are living right now. Accusing Millennials as narcissist is not accurate.

The Most Dangerous Game and High Noon are both thrilling tails of dominant men trading places with someone of equal strengths and power, or in other words, hunters becoming the hunted. Both main characters had to fight with someone who was equally as smart and powerful as they are. In the stories there is a great sense Both characters are trapped with no place to go, and are forced to fight. Although these stories are similar, they have different ways of being similar.

Within Citizen Kane there are important themes that draw in the audience, themes that the audience can relate and even sympathize with which makes the human emotions within the film feel genuine and not acted out/scripted. The first theme is the difficulty of getting the true story of Charles Kane’s life. The audience can only gather so much on his life as Charles Kane himself is deceased and the only things left to gather on his life are newsreels, personal testimonies and manuscripts left by those who knew Mr. Kane and even these facts are mired by prejudices which makes their reliability shaky at best. The audience can also resonate in agreement to a line said by Mr. Thompson when a female reporter believes if he found out what Rosebud meant to Mr. Kane then he could find out everything of Mr. Kane’s life to which Mr. Thompson simply says “No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece.” (Thomson, David) Another theme which was more or less a first was criticism of the American Dream, when the audience watches Charles Kane’s early childhood where

The literature entitled “the narcissism of minor difference” gives an in depth analysis into ethnic nationalism along with many sufficient examples to back up it's position on the argument that ethnic nationalism is not a natural occurrence but rather a societal construct. It provides insight into ethnic nationalisms roots, effects, presence on modern day life and how it has shaped societal interaction for many years. My personal stance on the Ignatieff's analysis of ethnic nationalism is generally of agreement. The idea that the overwhelming pride and exclusivity included in the worldwide demonstration that is ethnic nationalism is socially constructed has more solid evidence to support

The newsreel that starts the movie basically tells us the entire plot and Kane’s entire life story, but it doesn’t really do a good job of it. It’s just too shallow, it’s not Kane. It’s his public persona, nothing more. And the rest of the movie, and therefore, the rest of Kane’s personality and character, is told to us by 5 different sources. And all these sources could very well be unreliable narrators. In fact, when talking about a person who isn’t you, you end unintentionally being unreliable. Only Charles Foster Kane knows what it was like to be Charles Foster Kane, and he never got to tell his side of the story.

When his second wife leaves him Kane realizes the corruption wealth has done on his life and says “rosebud” because he wants to return to his sled, his childhood, to return to the beginning when wealth has yet to corrupt him. Citizen Kane is the story of a man’s great ideas to make the world better, but unable to because of the corruption wealth brought him.

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) is an American drama film that narrates the story of a newspaper magnate who gained worldly success in his life, but he lost connection with people around him during this process. With the help of a series of flashbacks, the film illustrates Kane’s personal life. The film starts with the scene where Kane is on his deathbed and says the word ‘Rosebud’ before dying. A newspaper reporter, Thompson gets intrigued by this word, which becomes the motivation for him to learn about the life of Charles Foster Kane and the significance of the word ‘ Rosebud’. The director, Orson Welles depicts the personal life of Kane beautifully in

There are several themes in Citizen Kane including “the myth of the American Dream.” In the first scene, we see the poor family of the Kane's, and rich Thatcher taking Kane away from his home and give him a rich life, the American Dream. He finds that the luxury and power doesn't make him happy and takes over a struggling newspaper his caregiver owns. All through the movie, we see Kane unhappy with all his money and spending it on things other than his happiness. He buys love from others and other things like the newspaper to make the people he hates miserable.

The framing device of the quest to uncover the enigmatic “Rosebud” by the reporter Thompson, whose shadowed face reflects his role as a metonym for us as Welles’ audience, thus moulds our understanding of the difficulty in attaining an individual’s finite identity. Thompson’s realisation of “Rosebud” as a “missing piece [of a jigsaw puzzle],” and that, “I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life,” in which a chiaroscuro-lit jigsaw puzzle, juxtaposed against the shadowed faces of the reporters, highlights the reality of Kane’s permanently fragmented and thus shadowed identity. Moreover, Welles reveals Rosebud as Kane’s childhood sled to us only, accompanied with a high-angle shot of the sled surrounded by Kane’s boyhood effects. In doing so, Welles evokes dramatic irony, highlighting its hidden importance as a representation of Kane’s inner longing for his youth that remains unknown to the film’s characters. This dramatic irony, when synthesised with a subsequent panning out of the camera from Xanadu to the “No Trespassing” sign through which it had entered, reminiscent of the film’s cyclical structure, thereby emphasises the impossibility of entering an individual’s inner world and thus being able to achieve a holistic understanding of one’s identity.

Citizen Kane opens with “rosebud”, the last word of Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy newspaper owner dying alone in his mansion Xanadu. His death takes the world by storm and every newspaper and news agency have something to say. One group of journalists question the significance of Kane’s last word and send Jerry Thompson to interview “his [Kane’s] banker, his manager, his best friend, his mistress-wife, and his butler” (Mosher, Davidman and Bower). Over the course of the five interviews, Kane’s story is discovered, from child to adult, from a kind man to what some may have considered a monster. Thompson is never able to uncover the mystery of “rosebud” for himself, but the final scene reveals its identity to the viewers, Kane’s childhood sled.

“I want my kid to grow to be a selfish narcissist and not appreciate the challenges life presents to them,” said no parent ever. The novel Les Miserables written by Victor Hugo displays many honorable attributes through certain characters, but Marius, a youthful rebel, is not a character to look up to. As Cosette emerges into the life of Marius, he playfully acts as a victim of love. The love not only blinds Marius from who and what is truly important, but also blinds the reader as the love averts their attention from his true characteristics. Often forgotten, Marius’s personal life was in shambles before Cosette showed up, and his actions resulted in a dissatisfactory lifestyle. Unraveling his personality through the novel, Marius shows

Citizen Kane is a 1941 film written, starred and directed by Orson Welles, a 25-year-old untested producer at the time. It is contemplated by many as the greatest film of all time evidenced by the numerous plaudits and nominations it has won. It has drawn praise due to its excellent use of cinematography and narrative techniques. The film examines the life and legacy of Charles Forster Kane played by Welles. In the opening scene of the movie, Kane dies and his last word was 'Rosebud.' The film is largely based on flashbacks describing his life. A reporter, Jerry Thompson is tasked with finding out the meaning of 'Rosebud' and interviews Kane's former associates.

Although upon first glance the movie seems to be about just who or what Rosebud could be, delving deeper reveals new meanings and seeing what the film demonstrated shows Kane’s astonishing life. The meanings to this film are as complex and ironic as the plot. They are complex because they differ from one another so much and are unique takes on the purpose behind the film. The myth of the American Dream is ironic because he was a rich man who controlled what the public thought. Most people would think that this is success and that they would be happy. Although he was successful, he was anything but

Because of the content of this film, Hearst tried to prevent it from being released. Kane, who was based on Hearst, was a very controversial newspaper tycoon. This makes the film more dramatic people there are characters that either love Kane or hate him. When Kane is caught in a love nest with s ainger, many more people disapprove of him.

There are many literary references to the mythological figures Narcissus and Echo. However, the most universally known is from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It is important to note that as we distance ourselves from the literary tradition that myths like Narcissus and Echo come from and as there are more and more visual representations produced, we can completely lose sight of the myth and its origins. There can be a reference to the mythological material but no direct connection. However, these visual works can also change the way in which we view and interpret the original myth from the literary tradition, making the viewers gain a new perspective. It is important to note that with every new era come different art movements which establish their own conventions through the historical and social contexts. This project will analyse how the myth of Echo and Narcissus is reflected within two visual works and if the works draw us back to the literary myth. Furthermore, connections and influence between the visual works will be determined. The historical and social contexts as well as the art movements that circulated and influenced the visual works will be analysed. Finally, the power and denial of the voice in recent decades in relation to Echo and her visual and literary representations will be studied.