Charlie's Use Of Religion In Willy Wonka

Willy wonka the movie shows a lot of religious undertones throughout the film. They include the each of the children excluding charlie representing a vice. The oompa loompas represent angels, slugworth represents satan, and willy wonka representing Jesus. Charlie in the film represents a man of integrity and faith. Virtues shown in the film include faith, fortitude, and generosity. The tunnel scene, the golden ticket, the chocolate factory, and the everlasting gobstopper all represent religious undertones of morality. Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee , Augustus Gloop all represent a vice that was shown throughout the film. Veruca represents greed, augustus represents gluttony, mike represents pride, and violet also represents …show more content…
Another example is veruca in the factory whining to her father to get her an oompa loompa. The final example is where the cast go see the giant geese and veruca again whines to her father to get her a goose. Her desire to get the goose became very high to the point where veruca tries to climb up and get the goose, but instead, she falls into the trash shoot. Augustus represents gluttony and his shown in her first appearance. The scene shows augustus eating an abundance of food and him being overweight also supports him being gluttonous. Another example of his gluttonous ways was in the factory where he was trying to eat everything to the point where he starts to drink the chocolate river which caused him to fall in the river and go up a drain pipe. Mike teavee represents pride because of his cocky attitude. Mike’s pride leads to his eventual fall when in the shrinking tv room his obsession for …show more content…
Charlie is a prime example for all these virtues. Charlie show’s faith because he knows he is poor but he still believed he can get the golden ticket. Charlie shows generosity when he gives his mom his money he earned from work and also his grandfather money for tobacco. Charlie shows fortitude by having the moral courage to do good and giving wonka back his gobstopper even though he could have kep itt and gave it to slugworth for money. The tunnel scene, the golden ticket, the chocolate factory, and the everlasting gobstopper all represent religious undertones of morality. The gobstopper represents temptation and how slugworth tempted the children to give the gobstopper for money. The chocolate factory represents heaven because all things there are good and the factory brings joy. The tunnel scene represents hell because the scene brought up everything bad that the children have went through. Finally the golden ticket represents the gateway to heaven because you need the golden ticket to get into the chocolate factory.
Willy wonka the movie has shown a lot of examples of religious