Category: Everyman

This is an extract from the moral play called ‘Everyman’ by Anonymous. Eventually before this extract, the messenger begins by revealing two themes such as sin and death which depict the cause of death to human beings. In the given extract, God wails over people who do not obey His rules and instead choose material…

Almost every work of literature has a protagonist and antagonist. The antagonist is normally presented as an evil character whose actions or ideas interrupt the peaceful existence of society. On the other hand, the protagonist is the hero who saves every other character from the dangers posed by the antagonist. From the characteristics observed in…

In some ways, the Renaissance turned the world, and man’s place in the world, upside down. During the Middle Ages – the years between the fall of Rome and the mid-14th century – the Catholic Church dominated Europe. The world was viewed as God’s creation and mankind was a sin-filled hitchhiker going along for the…

Everyman, a 15th-century play that follows the journey of an ordinary man who is reminded of his inevitable death, very similarly, in The Seventh Seal, a man by the name of Antonius Block who was a knight in the 14th century during the Bubonic plague is a also faced with death however it is reoccurring.…

Everyman is referred to a dynamic character throughout the play. This is portrayed through certain events and themes that occur in a play such as theme of death, salvation and worldly things. Death educates Everyman that he needs to construct an excursion from which he can never recuperate from it. The theme portrayed in this…

An allegorical drama that includes the art qualities that are personified during the forth lesson about noble living is called Morality play. These kinds of plays were well known during the late 1500 and early 1600 as electronical exhibitions just to engage the groups of onlookers while advancing the need of guidelines or devout life.…

An allegory is a novel, poem, photo or play which can be elucidated to unveil the latent or symbolic meaning. To add, allegories are used to teach or justify principle, morals, thoughts and so forth. There are three allegories such as biblical, classical and modern. The morality play is a kind of allegory where the…