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Three Is A Crowd: Kane, Leland, And Bernstein In Citizen Kane In every group of friends there exists certain templates. There can be found the outgoing ones, the dreamers, and eager-to-please pragmatists. This formula is latent in humanity, and is often reflected in literature and television. Orson Welles understood and used this in his masterpiece, Citizen Kane. Charles Kane (the title character), Jedidiah Leland, and Mr. Bernstein are Welles’s live wired Mercutio, idealist Romeo, and practical Benvolio. As the characters learn, grow, and change, the dynamics of their relationship are continuously altered, and, when at last their threesome fails, Kane suffers most. Charles Kane is, obviously, the outgoing one. Full of energy and charisma at the beginning, it is his rabid idealism and raw energy that allow the three to carry a failing paper to fruition. It is this nature that drives Charles to do more, to reach for more. This intrinsic ambition is his reason to run for office and to build a Floridian palace. This nature eventually turns into a need, a desire to be noticed. This desire corrupts and isolates him. It alienates him from the other two, and this alienation forces him to find kane, leland, bernstein, kane’s, right, mr, man, charles, two, out, never, even, after, while, way, together, three, scene, respect, longer, inquirer, friends, first, camera, because, welles, though, stands, standing, stand, sits, shows, prove, one, new