Escalation Model In The Titanic

The movie the Titanic represents the first five stages of the Knapp Relationship Model by initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding. By using these five steps, the characters in the movie continuously develop and grow together. In the beginning of the movie, the characters initiate their relationship when Rose puts herself on the railings of the back of the Titanic, and Jack sees her before she proceeds to jump. This was the first interaction between rose and Jack. As Jack continued to convince her to come down off of the railing he says, “Well if you jump, I jump”, using his life to show how much he would care if she jumped, without even knowing her. This tells Rose that Jack was there for more reasons than she may have thought. Moreover, their relationship continues to progress the morning after Jack convinces Rose to not commit suicide by jumping off of the stern. As a case in point, Rose starts telling Jack about her life, …show more content…
Declaring their true intentions for each other when they show interest in one another’s personal lives, and then continuing to intensify their love by showing off to the world, and Rose’s wealthy family that they are serious. As the story progresses, Jack and Rose demonstrate their strengths and weaknesses to each other and fighting for each other during a tragic experience. Unfortunately, their relationship ends in death and distraught over the sinking ship, but their love will continue to grow because of the strong feelings they had over the course of just a few days. At the end of the movie Rose still tells the story about how great of a love they had and how it still effects her life in present day. The first five stages of the relationship model are the most important because it is the first representation of their relationship and they never made it far enough for their relationship to