Everyman

Everyman is a morality play that uses an individual, Everyman, to represent all men. The play dramatizes his reckoning with death and salvation to show that when one dies, all of the things one lives for are taken away, and only your good deeds succeed. He uses the characters to teach a moral. The main character in the play, Everyman, serves as the embodiment of everyman in the world. The moral of this play is a good one. “All things o this earth are mere vanity. Beauty, Strength, and Discretion fade away. Foolish friends and heedless next of kin- all flee from you, except Good Deeds.” The play begins with God dissatisfied because all creatures on the earth choose riches over righteousness and generally live a life of sin. He summons death to seek out Everyman and force him to a reckoning of his life. “The time has come to take a long journey.
Everyman had many important characteristics in his life. Death serves as an important character in Everyman. The universal theme or moral in this play is " So good deeds and obtain as much knowledge that you possibly can because every good thing that you do and everything that you learn will stay with you for your whole life and you will be recognized for everything that you do, sooner or later. Death serves as the character that changes lives. This parable of the talents therefore refers to the metaphor "life is a precious possession. These characteristics are assumed to make up a person. He falls back on his Good Deeds, his Strength, his Beauty, his Intelligence, and his Knowledge. Beauty, Strength, and Discretion are examples of some different characteristics that were expressed in Everyman. The play shows the hero's progression from despair and fear of death to a "Christian resignation that is the prelude to redemption. And be sure your reckoning is straight and true-" This line is the first encounter between Everyman and Death. He was the figure that went down to Earth to retrieve Everyman and take him to the