From Here to Eternity Themes

Courage is super-hard, whether you're acting or resisting. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is courageous precisely because he won't be forced into boxing—he won't be bullied. He's stubborn, but for princip...

The guys in From Here To Eternity are unyieldingly committed to duty, despite whatever fate throws at them. Prewitt won't hate the army, no matter how poorly and unfairly his superiors treat him. I...

In From Here To Eternity, love runs in two directions—towards people and towards higher causes (which also have living people behind them). Prewitt and Alma fall in love, and so do Karen and Ward...

The only marriage we really see in From Here to Eternity is a totally terrible one: the marriage between Dana and Karen Holmes. Dana is an adulterer, a bully, and a total creep, and their marriage...

When it comes to status, it's boys against girls in From Here to Eternity. Alma assigns status a lot of importance—she doesn't want to lead a financially insecure and impoverished life. The fact...

We don't see much actual warfare until the very end of the movie— what we mostly see in From Here to Eternity is the lives of the soldiers themselves: the way they spend their down time and the w...