Charles Foster Kane Conflicts

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-Charles Foster Kane's was sent away from his home partly due to his violent and abusive father.

-Charles Kane had much success and fame is based on his career as newspaper publisher

-Charles Kane's success was based on yellow journalism, which was pretty much dishonesty and a complete disregard for the truth

-Charles Kane's pursuit of a political career ended in failure with the discovery of love affair of his future second wife, Susan Alexander.

-Charles Kane's second wife,Susan Alexander, eventually left him

2.The major conflicts are about Charles Foster Kane's own need to be loved and own inability to do as stated by Leland where "He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the
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Guess all he really wanted out of life was love. That's Charlie's story, how he lost it. You see, he just didn't have any to ". It is also where much grief and trouble he causes other people involved in his life to also suffer as well which may be seen especially with Susan Alexander as we find in the beginning with much resentment and bitterness over her time being with Charles Kane. Her relationship had much to do with her being forced into famous career she had no desire or ability to fulfill. The actual root cause of all this is Charles Kane's own internal struggle deriving from childhood where he was taken from his family at early age and dealing with his abusive father, someone he himself he has become very similar to which can be seen throughout many of his relationships. Yet another conflict in the conflict in the story which ends in utter failure is Charles Foster's political career where his dishonesty and disloyalty are exposed, with first marriage ending failure as well. The last major conflict is that of finding and discovering what Charles Kane's final word of "Rosebud" which it itself

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