Everyman

hero in "everyman"

"everyman" who is being informed of his impending journey to the grave by Death

date of production

1495

confession

after this penance, good deeds can rise from the ground, she is restored and can accompany Everyman to his death

squaring of accounts

bring your book of reckoning

discretion

circumspection

"remember beauty, five wits, strength and discretion they all at the last do every man forsake save his good deeds there doth he take"

doctor, final lesson

"all thing faileth, save God alone"

everyman as death approaches he is abandoned by beauty, strength, discretion and the five wits

"see thou make thee ready shortly"

everyman asking his friends, family and possessions to join him

before getting to the grave...

everyman receives the final sacraments

everyman will move from

fear and despair to acceptance and resignation

allegorical figures

fellowship kindred cousin goods knowledge confession beauty strength discretion wits (all five)

"everyman farewell now at the ending; for i will remember that parting is mourning"

friends

"here i lie, cold in the ground; thy sins hath me sore bound"

good deeds

final companion of everyman

good deeds

"You have loved me too much, but have not loved mankind or God enough"

goods

"nay everyman..i follow no man in such voyages"

goods

beauty

intense pleasure or deep satisfaction

"everyman i will go with thee and by thy guide"

knowledge can take the journey with him

morality play

medieval drama type, everyman evolved side by side with the mystery play, although they were composed individually and not in cycles employed allegory to dramatize the moral struggle Christianity envisions universal in every individual

The life you're living is transitory; it will pass. But beware! Your sin will leave you hanging.

messenger

five-wits

personification of five sense these figures (discretion, strength, beauty, and five-wits) do not represent the material attachments of the world-they are Everyman's attributes redeemed by grace

strength

physical ability

final lesson

the only thing you can take from this world is what you have GIVEN (good deeds) not what you have RECEIVED (material possessions) death is inevitable

good deeds

wants to go but is too weak to accompany him. she is weakened by everyman's sins. introduced everyman to knowledge