Everyman Vs. The Bucket List

Everyman and The Bucket List are like in that they both show how a person should live. Likewise, the main characters are mortals. Throughout many of the characters’ lives they have committed a sin of some kind. In Everyman, Everyman does not have virtue, but he has vice. Jack Nicholson, in The Bucket List, wants to have respite from his life. He does not believe he has anything more to live for. However, The Bucket List and Everyman differ because Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman find reverence for life, but Everyman does not have enough time to repent. The movie and the play are similar because Everyman, Jack Nicholson, and Morgan Freeman find salvation, whether good or bad. Regardless, the moral of The Bucket List is to never take life for
granted and to live everyday as your last. On the contrary, the moral of Everyman is salvation is not given or received, it is earned by doing good deeds. At the end of one’s life, redemption is only given to those who made themselves and others better.