When you reach your final destination knowledge, strength, beauty, wealth and riches, family and friends cannot accompany you, you are left on your own and only your good deeds can assist you, this is the moral I got from a 15th century morality play ‘Everyman’. A morality play according Webster (2015) is an allegorical play popular especially in the 15th and 16th centuries in which the characters personify abstract qualities of concepts (as virtues, vices or death). Everyman is a one- act morality play which teaches one on how one should live and what they ought to do to save their souls. In this essay I will analyze a morality play Everyman, I will touch on the following aspects of the play: Setting Time, Protagonist, Major Conflict, Rising
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Everyman is said to have been written by an unknown author but in my view I think the writer was a priest because back then priests were the ones who wrote plays, books or scripts back in medieval times because they were educated and they were trying to educate people about the bible via plays as those people were illiterate. Everyman takes place in Heaven and on Earth. Everyman was based on the era of Roman Catholics, it was written in the 1500s in England and its original title was ‘The Summoning of Everyman’ but is now known as Everyman.
This play is an allegorical drama play (Cummings: 2010). The conflict of this play is Good vs. Evil or Life vs. Death. The play portrays the conflict to show us humans how good vs. evil on our final destination, how ones ways re weighed by which between good and evil has the highest rate and how they are judged by the outcome or results. Everyman is the protagonist of this play, Everyman represents every human. According to Bhawanipur (2015) ‘Material possessions or goods are not what hold the most importance in …show more content…
It is appropriate for all because each and every one of us do things in our life of limited understanding and knowledge that turn out hurtful to others or ourselves, we need to be forgiven in order to proceed or progress(Hardison;2011). According to Gradesaver (2015) ‘a key theme in everyman is how we can’t take things beyond the grave’. The other theme that is significant is rejection/abandonment/loneliness- when Everyman discovered what his last journey was, all his material possessions and people he counted on abandoned him and he was to face death and Gods judgment alone. Sin is another main theme of the play. ‘Sin causes many to stray from God, and he must renounce his sins in order to be saved’ (Bmarrnick:
Everyman is said to have been written by an unknown author but in my view I think the writer was a priest because back then priests were the ones who wrote plays, books or scripts back in medieval times because they were educated and they were trying to educate people about the bible via plays as those people were illiterate. Everyman takes place in Heaven and on Earth. Everyman was based on the era of Roman Catholics, it was written in the 1500s in England and its original title was ‘The Summoning of Everyman’ but is now known as Everyman.
This play is an allegorical drama play (Cummings: 2010). The conflict of this play is Good vs. Evil or Life vs. Death. The play portrays the conflict to show us humans how good vs. evil on our final destination, how ones ways re weighed by which between good and evil has the highest rate and how they are judged by the outcome or results. Everyman is the protagonist of this play, Everyman represents every human. According to Bhawanipur (2015) ‘Material possessions or goods are not what hold the most importance in …show more content…
It is appropriate for all because each and every one of us do things in our life of limited understanding and knowledge that turn out hurtful to others or ourselves, we need to be forgiven in order to proceed or progress(Hardison;2011). According to Gradesaver (2015) ‘a key theme in everyman is how we can’t take things beyond the grave’. The other theme that is significant is rejection/abandonment/loneliness- when Everyman discovered what his last journey was, all his material possessions and people he counted on abandoned him and he was to face death and Gods judgment alone. Sin is another main theme of the play. ‘Sin causes many to stray from God, and he must renounce his sins in order to be saved’ (Bmarrnick: