All That Heaven Allows

The beautiful film All That Heaven Allows directed by Douglas Sirk shows the struggles women faced in the 1950’s and how gender norms limited women from having an independent and safe surrounding, all through the story of a rich widowed woman who falls for a young man. Sirk uses the set of the film to its maximum potential with his experience with mise-en-scène. With mise-en-scène Sirk can place any visual object in order gain emotion from his audience and in the film All That Heaven Allows he uses color, prison iconography, and facial expressions to express the tone of the situations. Sirk’s use of mise-en-scène throughout the film tells more of the story than the actual actors because when watched without prior knowledge looks like a normal love story of an older woman with a younger man. Each new area in the film subtly shows how the heroin is being pulled away from happiness because she is a woman and does not know what she wants to do to be happy. The is why this film uses every single…

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family and Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allow follows the theme of family. In a Tyler Perry film, the protagonist is a female, who’s going through life struggles, and in the end will learn from her mistakes. Most of those mistakes consist family drama. Same goes for Sirk’s All That Heaven Allow, family being a conflict of the protagonist finding true love. Each film has similarities and differences that centers on this theme and allow audience members to…

In The Scarlet Letter by David Hawthorne and All That Heaven Allows by Douglas Sirk, society is imperfect. Hester Prynne and Cary Scott were excluded from their societies because of lust for their partner that is socially acceptable today. Hester Prynne was nearly executed for committing adultery even though the husband was assumed dead. Instead, she was forced to wear an embroidered, scarlet “A” on her bosom. Cary Scott was rejected by her friends, her family and nearly everyone in town because…

In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Satan makes a number of observations, one being, “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” This suggests that each individual has the power to change their mindset on a situation, which can be translated to the present in an overwhelming amount of ways. At one point or another, nearly everybody has been told less is more. Of course, many people associate this with how much dressing they put on their salad or something…

created a meaningful and personable poem. The Ghazal structure Hummel chose to use in this poem allows us to understand her personal story. One Life can openly be interpreted in many different ways, with the main idea being the authors struggle to believe in God and keep her faith after the tragedy of her son’s death. Both the structure…

The first theme that both Confucianism and Communism share is the absence of a present, and omnipotent God. In Confucianism there is not a present, omnipotent, God. Not having God is important when talking about Communism. Some could argue Tian is a deity to Confucianism but instead Tian is translated to Heaven and the role within Confucianism is to achieve harmony between Heaven and Earth, so Confucians do not treat Tian like an all powerful God like other religions have. Communist ideals do…

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…

In William Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice, the heaven and hell motif emphasizes the internal conflicts inside Othello. This scene takes place within the garden outside the citadel, indicated by the footnotes of the passage. The garden is where Iago’s plan unfolds and the audience witnesses the beginning of Othello’s downfall. This parallels the Garden of Eden, where the devil’s plan to corrupt man begins to unfold. The motif of heaven further conveys the conflict Othello is facing.…

Denise Giardina creates a different view of Appalachian natives in Storming Heaven. Giardina breaks the stereotypes that are typically placed on people form the Appalachian area and sheds some light in the truth of the situation during the mine unionization. The author also demonstrates the difference in her portrayal of Appalachia simple by the way she writes about class, politics, and industrial views. All in all Storming Heaven breaks the typical Appalachian stereotypes. Denise Giardinia has…

willing to hear and accept it as well. The Kingdom of God, which is also referred to as The Kingdom of Heaven, is believed in Christianity to be the spiritual realm over which God reigns, though another interpretation is that it is the fulfillment on earth of God’s will. Additionally, in Christianity it is believed that God’s Kingdom was established at creation; yet, it was infected and distorted by sin, which can explain the Kingdom of God as the rule of God manifested in Jesus, who was sent to…