Everyman

Everyman, an allegorical drama, which teaches Christians how to live, and the way to salvation. Literal critics have all agreed to consider it a morality play, a genre which quite common during the 15th and 16th century. Mostly, a moral play is a personification of moral qualities (forgiveness, charity) or an abstract idea (life, death), it was thought to be the transitional point of drama, from liturgical drama to professional secular drama. Everyman, featuring death and everyman’s summons and his journey to his grave, is considered to be the greatest morality play. However, I was asked a question during a medieval literature class, on whether it is possible to call everyman a romance play or not. And I find this question amusing, especially …show more content…
The satisfaction of certainty, it is what al of us earthly beings are aiming to find through out our hard life, we search for it in every crisis, we pray for it, read and indulge in knowledge hoping for a glimpse of faith, ironically, it is what we will attain at the end of the journey, that is the end of our lives. Apparently, it was not the only thing that everyman attained in his grave. On the final scene, an angel appears, holding Everyman’s book of reckoning, he only came to send everyman’s soul to heaven, and says that because of Everyman’s “singular virtue”, he will be taken to “heavenly sphere”. The gift of certainty, wisdom, and heaven, is the absolute goal, and is certainly a happy