Everyman The Play

Everyman’s character represents human being in the play, for example he has good deeds and makes mistakes. Five Wits are also another example of how everyman represents human beings. According to the author Five Wits are the human being five senses. They leave everyman at the end of the play. When death reveals who he is and what god’s plan is for everyman, he’s horrified and unready to make such reckoning. Everyman states he’s not ready for such plan. In this play there are a lot of different characters that were introduced to us. For an example, Fellowship is demonstrated as friendship, according to lines 231-235 fellowship suggested on going drinking or consorting with women rather than going on a pilgrimage to death. Kindred which is another character in the play, it represents family members. Kindred desert him on his journey. As it’s identified by the author on lines …show more content…
Such as doing good deeds. Death states in the play that all of everyman’s good and evil will be tallied up like pluses and minuses in an account book. Along the play everyman tries to convince other characters to come with him in hope of improving his account. The author also taught us that no one can enter heaven with earthly goods, as it is shown in the excerpt from everyman. “But if thou had loved moderately during, as to the poor give part of me, the shouldn’t thou not in his dolor be, Not in this great sorrow care.” Most importantly seeking forgiveness for our sins before entering the kingdom of heaven. When aging you start to lose your beauty. You are no longer young, wrinkles start to appear and you lose your strength. As beauty states to everyman in the play “what am I supposed suffocate here?” and everyman replies yes, beauty leaves and strength goes along. When aging you also lose your discretion, five wits decided that they will leave too. Five wits which are everyman’s five senses left just like an aging person