"Everyman is a late fifteenth-century morality play. It was written in English by an anonymous author. Like other morality plays from the late Medieval period, it is meant to communicate a simple moral lesson to both educated and illiterate audiences". It is a play on a biblical subject. The pilgrimage of Everyman after death emphasizes the significance of getting saved by the Lord. Death can be the end of the body physically but not the end of our soul spiritually. The Bible says: “Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have determined his limits so that he cannot pass” (Job 14:5 New American Standard Bible). This verse can be inferred that only God knows when somebody comes to his premise. In this play, the
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"That of our lives and ending shows. How transitory we be all day." God speaks next, "How that all creatures be to me unkind". He criticizes the way that “all creatures” are not worshipping Him right. "To get them life I suffered to be dead; I healed their feet, with thorns hurt was my head. I could do no more than I did, truly; And now I see the people do clean* forsake me: They use the seven deadly sins damnable". He gives how He was crucified to save His creations. Plus, He also mentions the seven deadly sins. He points out that some people may have forgotten about who saved them and gave them life. People live their lives to purely please themselves, living without “dread” in the world without worrying about their relationship with God, or the judgment in front of God in the end of their lives. Death was considered as God's "mighty messenger". God wants Death to present to Everyman his pilgrimage that he may escape. Death comes to Everyman and asks him "Everyman, stand still! Whither art thou going? Thus gaily? Hast thou thy Maker forget?". Then Death tells Everyman that he must come to a journey and brings his account book which holds his good deeds and bad deeds …show more content…
He also shows the distressing side of life ending in personal obligation. Everyone is responsible for his own deeds in front of God’s judgment. Nobody can be able to help or comfort one another. The inevitability of Death to awaken Everyman's mind and guides him to the right choices. The author shows the audience his treatment of Death through Everyman's attitude. He is afraid of Death. Because he has spent his life in sin and he could see his miserable destiny. He realizes that nothing in the world can rescue him. This re-evaluation could happen and begin a new life attached to the good and right, but the changing of his life were not possible because of all of his past, which he lived in the inaccurate and guilty way. Everyman’s process of self-development and understanding is a response to Death’s appearance and
"That of our lives and ending shows. How transitory we be all day." God speaks next, "How that all creatures be to me unkind". He criticizes the way that “all creatures” are not worshipping Him right. "To get them life I suffered to be dead; I healed their feet, with thorns hurt was my head. I could do no more than I did, truly; And now I see the people do clean* forsake me: They use the seven deadly sins damnable". He gives how He was crucified to save His creations. Plus, He also mentions the seven deadly sins. He points out that some people may have forgotten about who saved them and gave them life. People live their lives to purely please themselves, living without “dread” in the world without worrying about their relationship with God, or the judgment in front of God in the end of their lives. Death was considered as God's "mighty messenger". God wants Death to present to Everyman his pilgrimage that he may escape. Death comes to Everyman and asks him "Everyman, stand still! Whither art thou going? Thus gaily? Hast thou thy Maker forget?". Then Death tells Everyman that he must come to a journey and brings his account book which holds his good deeds and bad deeds …show more content…
He also shows the distressing side of life ending in personal obligation. Everyone is responsible for his own deeds in front of God’s judgment. Nobody can be able to help or comfort one another. The inevitability of Death to awaken Everyman's mind and guides him to the right choices. The author shows the audience his treatment of Death through Everyman's attitude. He is afraid of Death. Because he has spent his life in sin and he could see his miserable destiny. He realizes that nothing in the world can rescue him. This re-evaluation could happen and begin a new life attached to the good and right, but the changing of his life were not possible because of all of his past, which he lived in the inaccurate and guilty way. Everyman’s process of self-development and understanding is a response to Death’s appearance and