Everyman Argumentative Essay

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Everyman: How it plays a part in religion People today have many purposes in life, like having a lot of money, having the best career, buying houses, being on top of the latest trend, buying new cars, and being as successful in life as they can. People believe that these things are what they strive for and make them their purpose in life. Unfortunately, people forgot that our purpose in life is not physical and emotional satisfaction our purpose is not only to better ourselves but to better things around us. We should not live for the next dollar we make, we should live for our relationship with God and to gather good deeds. We need to find peace and ease so we can live a healthy life and at the same time work for what takes place after …show more content…
I would say that all humans sin and make mistakes because, we are not perfect. We sin and do bad things in this world, but in the end we need to learn from our mistakes and ask God for forgiveness. In the poem “Everyman” I do believe that the character everyman is a sinner but he has good deeds, everyone has sins and good deeds. I know that he committed sins because when death came to take him and did not want to go with him and asked for another day. Also, he was asking for people to help him on his journey because, he was not sure if he will succeed. Kornbluth supposes that “We are never quite sure just exactly what is it is never identified as a specific set of sins, and in this way is similar to Everyman’s generalized life of ill deeds” (27). Her reasoning makes sense to an extent, we never know how much sin we have committed in our life time. However, we do know when we are committing a sin for instance, when someone steals money they know they have committed a sin. This is similar to Everyman, God says “And now I see the people do clean forsake me they use the seven deadly sins damnable” (Everyman). Therefore, when men commits a major sin they are aware of it because the deadly sins are Pride, Envy, Wrath, Gluttony, Lust, Sloth and …show more content…
The second level is symbolic -- Everyman 's life is a journey from birth to death, and every man makes this same trip “(Trueman). I would say that the text is an allegory because, the characters and action, and the setting, have two levels of meaning. I agree, that the character Everyman does represent mankind due to the fact his name is everyone and the text in whole is talking about people in general. Everyman’s journey that he goes on symbolized that all of the people will soon go on it, and the author gives a description of what they will

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