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Everyman

Everyman. Excerpted from textbook. Components. Morality Play – medieval drama; Christian struggle between good and evil (going to heaven or hell); teaches a moral lesson (morals = beliefs, values, ethics [what’s right and wrong])

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Everyman

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  1. Everyman Excerpted from textbook

  2. Components • Morality Play – medieval drama; Christian struggle between good and evil (going to heaven or hell); teaches a moral lesson (morals = beliefs, values, ethics [what’s right and wrong]) • Naïve Allegory – characters, objects, places and actions, etc. are personifications of abstractions. • Caricature – exaggerations of a quality

  3. Personification • Everyman = every person • Death = end of life THEY ARE THE CHARACTERS, BUT IDEAS SIMULTANEOUSLY = PERSONIFICATION

  4. mESSENGER • Breaks down 4th wall and addresses the audience directly • Avoid Seven Deadly Sins in order to go to heaven • Everyman has been called to a reckoning • “Look well, and take good heed to the ending,/Be you never so gay.” (10-11) – meaning?

  5. god • Angered by the sins of man • Why? • Lines 25-52 • Meaning? – God’s angry due to? • How did God originally plan for man’s end? (lines 53-54)

  6. Death v. everyman • Outline the exception to the rule (or the “saving grace”) that Death seeks in Everyman (lines 74-79): • Death finds Everyman in order to review his life; to weigh the balance of good deeds (Almsdeeds) v. sin • Everyman doesn’t recognize Death and doesn’t know why he has come; Upon realization, Everyman tries to make a deal…

  7. Death v. everyman • Everyman – come back again later (I’ll give you $, all I have) • Everyman: Can I come back at the end of the journey? • Death: NO! • Everyman: “I would to God I had never be geet!/To my soul a full great profit it had be./ For now I fear pains huge and great.” (189-191)

  8. … • Everyman goes on his journey and returns to Death at a grave (his grave) with all of the qualities of his life with him.

  9. beauty • Everyman: “In this world live no more we shall,/ But in heaven before the highest Lord of all.” (797-799) • Beauty – NO!

  10. strength • Everyman: “Stenght, you to displease I am to blame,/ Yet promise is debt, this ye well wot.” (820-821) • Strength– NO!

  11. Discretion • “Everyman, I will after Strength be gone:/ As for me, I will leave you alone.” (831-832) • Discretion– NO!

  12. Five - Wits • Everyman: “Alas, then may I wail and weep, / For I took you for my best friend.” (846-848) • Five – Wits – NO!

  13. Good deeds and knowledge • Why does Knowledge stay so long? (862-863) • Why does Good Deeds stay? (852-854)

  14. Purpose • Angel? • Doctor? • Theme = “And he that hath his account whole and sound,/

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