Anonymous’ Everyman Influence in Stuart’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory The play, Everyman by Anonymous, is a play that the masses could relate to. It is an allegorical piece that allows any person to place themselves in the shoes of Everyman and walk his journey. The play beings after a brief prologue, God speaks of humanities lack of faith in Him and becoming too absorbed in material wealth, so He instructs Death to go to Everyman and summon him to heaven for his final judgement. In hearing the news from Death, Everyman is distressed and begs for more time. Death denies this but will allow Everyman to find a companion for his journey. The following characters become the personification of the qualities Christians need in order to enter the kingdom of Heaven while the foolish sins deny joining him. In the end, the audience is spoon-fed that only good deeds would follow man into heaven.
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Mel Stuart’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a rendition of author Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory using much of the same plot and themes. Stuart’s film is about the seven deadly sins the block humanity from being received into heaven. Each child commits a singular sin that disqualifies them from being the future owners of the chocolate factory, which is symbolic of a child’s heaven. In the end, Charlie represents Everyman, by being granted the factory. Even though he has committed a small sin, he ultimately was forgiven by God (or in this case Willy Wonka) and given paradise which is the answer to Charlie’s poverty. Mel Stuart creates a child’s dreamland within the main chocolate room of the factory. The children in the movie were not to see the chocolate room until the moment of shooting the scene. Their actions are meant to be genuinely captured in the moment with pure excitement that such a wonderland could exist on
Mel Stuart’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a rendition of author Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory using much of the same plot and themes. Stuart’s film is about the seven deadly sins the block humanity from being received into heaven. Each child commits a singular sin that disqualifies them from being the future owners of the chocolate factory, which is symbolic of a child’s heaven. In the end, Charlie represents Everyman, by being granted the factory. Even though he has committed a small sin, he ultimately was forgiven by God (or in this case Willy Wonka) and given paradise which is the answer to Charlie’s poverty. Mel Stuart creates a child’s dreamland within the main chocolate room of the factory. The children in the movie were not to see the chocolate room until the moment of shooting the scene. Their actions are meant to be genuinely captured in the moment with pure excitement that such a wonderland could exist on