Everyman Is An English Morality Play By An Unknown Author

Originally known as â€Å"The Summoning of Everyman†, â€Å"Everyman† was writing sometime during the late 1400s. â€Å"Everyman† is an English morality play by an unknown author. This play first appeared in England in the 16th century. â€Å"Everyman† can be considered as a play of transience because it shows a protagonist who is during the whole play. It also illustrates the way Christians are expected to live and the endeavors that should be made in order for their lives to be saved. The morality play â€Å"Everyman† is about a man who is too attached and obsessed with materialistic things when Death summons and tells him about his end. The author used symbolic names for characters to show us the moral of the play. â€Å"The characters in an allegory often have no individual personality, but are embodiments of moral qualities and other abstractions† (Allegory, 2010) The author of the play â€Å"Everyman† has the main character Everyman to only symbolize the typical human being. Death, also known as the antagonist, is a messenger sent by God to summon Everyman. The author is trying to show readers that death is inescapable, and every human being will have to face it one day. In the beginning of the play, God speaks about his death on the cross to give life to His people, mentions the deadly sins, He tells that people live for their own enjoyments, and how some have neglected Him. God then commands Death to show Everyman who is outside of the law of God what must come to him without escape or delay, the dayShow MoreRelatedEveryman Is A Morality Play1720 Words   |  7 PagesEveryman is a morality play that was written in the late fifteenth-century, by an unknown author. It is unknown who originally wrote the play. It has been said that maybe Monks and Priests of that time wrote these types of plays. Therefore, it is believed that the play was probably written by multiple people. 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