Titanic

Love, a universal emotion that holds together the delicate threads of our existence.
To love we must know ourselves, self awareness is among the man building blocks of
love. Commonly we as people usually gravitate more so to the person of which we have
the most in common with, consequently those who know us the best. Interlocking with
self awareness are our social classes, in which we dwell in daily. Our phylum of people
we choose to surround ourselves with are the people of our social class, typically because
everyone holds the most in common with the person we think we were born to be.
Ironically enough often we find ourselves in a social class where yes, we may have a few
things in common, but the people on the inside are completely different. Usually when
self realization arises, and we discover we no longer fit in our social phylum, panic rushes
in like adrenaline. Against one’s will this person continues to stay in the group where they
are the most accepted, while placing up a façade. Not long after the façade is in place that
the internal conflict arises. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Although fearful, but
necessary one must learn to accept the inner new self, in addition to hoping that your
social class will accept this new person as well. Rose the protagonist of Titanic, is faced
with the battle of acceptance. Rose accepts who she is as a person, however her social
class does not. This is the beginning plot line of the story, sadly this excludes the
character’s prior journey to her self discovery, as we are left to infer that one ever such
took place.

Now in old age wise in years, Rose sits down with treasure seekers and begins to
outlay the story which brought her to the person she has flowered. A young girl struggles
to find herself in a world of hypocrisy, and judgmental eyes. During the age of arranged
marriage Rose was to be betrothed to the antagonist Cal. Marriage was not a holy union,
but a means of survival and conveniences. Behind closed doors, Rose’s family were
losing their wealth, consequently the marriage was arranges to save her family from the
shame an embarrassment of being of low income (poor folk). Rose is stuck between
saving her family’s name of wealth, or being true to her inner self. Coincidentally the day
she boards the new vessel the Titanic, another person boards who will forever change her
life. Jack the supporting protagonist is a commoner, and is only on board the ship,
because by chance he won a ticket aboard the vessel. Upon boarding, they meet on the
deck where Jack challenges Rose’s loyalty to her social class, by engaging her in actions
that would be forbidden in their eyes (spitting like a man over the boat). Immediately
Jack can see her for the person that she is, not the group in which she resides in, for this
fact Rose is intrigued by Jack. Jack is a starving artist with an optimistic outlook on life
in addition to owning an adorable smile. Jack is completely confident in his own skin,
and always has a wise remark to those that opposes that about him, Rose admires this
strength in Jack. Contradictory one night at dinner in the grand ballroom, where
commoners do not belong, Rose creates jack into something he is not as if she is creating
him his own façade to match her own. They trade his rags for a quality fine thread count
tuxedo, and attempt to change his entire persona. However Jack is true to the person that
he is, and it is in this scene that we see that Rose truly begins to fall for Jack. We also
take notice that not everyone in this social class looks down upon everyone, there is a woman seated at the table who listens tenderly to Jack and supports his philosophy of life.

Through various characters, ranging from similar to completely different backgrounds,
the director is able to relate to a broader audience with the story’s theme. Great time went
into the motives of each character, and the role they would play in expressing an
underlying message. Rose lies within everyone, that part that’s afraid of rejection, that
seeks the approval of the people that are close to us; this personality which lies within us
can be titles Rose. Jack is that feisty part of ourselves which is confident in all endeavors,
and enables people to do what they love because it makes them happy. Cal is that part of
us that contains the jealousy, and who is secretly a hater. We all contain a little bit of Cal,
but it pertains in how you handle your Cal.