Another aspect that I consider to be crucial is that Citizen Kane contains the elements of great drama, the characters, the structure, the simultaneously fascinating and confounding things you find in Shakespearean tragedies. ... The figure of Charles Foster Kane -- like the protagonists in many of Orson Welles' other films -- is a tragic, I'd say Faustian one, wherein idealism and great power give way to hubris and eventual downfall. ... Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, each being a story in which an individual (who is the focus of our attention) is described from afar by a...

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