A success as a publisher, a failure at life. Such is the sad legacy of fictional newspaper mogul Charles Foster Kane. Orson Wells’ masterpiece allows us a candid overview of the life and conquests of an early twentieth century media giant, a character based substantially on William Randolph Hurst. Kane, the only child of simple Midwestern “peseant class” couple, finds himself thrust into a new world of fortune and destiny when a family holding turns …showed first 75 words of 607 total…

…showed last 75 words of 607 total…He desired the love of the “people,” but in its persuit he sacrificed his once loving marriage. As he endevours to love the “singer,” he loses the love of his constituency. All throughout, he misses the innocent bliss of his childhood. So poor Charles Foster Kane dies a failure at life, his façade of success crumbling around him, his lofty dreams left unrealized, as the stark unfinished corridors of xanidu witness his final introspection.