Everyman
Title: Everyman
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 477 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Everyman
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 477 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Medievil drama developed out of early religious plays, which had been
made out of the drama of the medieval church..These early dramatic forms still
focused on the religious and moral themes that dominated the Christian
imagination during the Middle Ages.The play Everyman showed the
improvement of the people by seeking salvation.(Charles Darling, 2000)
The morality play presented religious and ethical concerns from the point
of view of the Christian person, whose main concern
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by means of Confession
and Priesthood. In the end it is clear that Everyman reaches his goal through self
improvement when he says
"Take this, body, for the sin of the flesh! Also thou delightest to go
gay and fresh and in the way of damnation thou did me bring;
Therefore suffer now strokes of punishing.Now of Penance I will
wade the water clear to save me from purgatory,that sharp fire"
(Everyman, ~1500 p. 87)