Discuss the author's perception of death and the treatment of death in Everyman

Table of contents

Thesis Statement3

Outline3

Introduction4

Perception of Death4

Perception of Treatment7

Critical Analysis8

Conclusion9

Author's Perception of Death and the Treatment of Death in Everyman

Thesis Statement

The message of death in Everyman is associated with the search of the reasoning of life.

Outline

Paragraph 1: Introduction and Thesis Statement

Paragraphs 2-13: Explains the play, its characters, the author's interpretation of the play, and the author's perception of death and the treatment of death.

Paragraph 14: Conclusion

This paper indentifies the perception of death and the treatment of death of the anonymously written play, Everyman. This play, written in the 15th century, is used as a spiritual message to man from God. The message of death in Everyman is associated with the search of the reasoning of life.

Everyman is a morality play. In fact, Everyman is considered the greatest morality play yet. A morality play is an allegorical drama where the plays' characters personified moral qualities and abstractions. The author directly focuses on the important questions of love, friendship, life, death, and retribution.

Introduction

Everyman an English morality plays of the late 15th century, the finest representative of the genre, and the one best known outside the circle of historical scholars. Of undetermined authorship, it is now conceded to be a close translation of a Dutch play, Elckerlijc, although a number of attempts have been made to prove the priority of the English text. The success of the play with modern audiences is a tribute to the universality of its thematic elements and to the artistry of its dramatic structure. While it is the culmination of a long series of experiments with a nonrepresentational, allegorical drama on the problem of salvation, it transcends the limits of its era to become one of the great plays of all time (Dunn, 2003).

Perception of Death

Everyman is a morality play. In fact, Everyman is considered the greatest morality play yet. A morality play is an allegorical drama where the plays' characters personified moral qualities and abstractions. The author directly focuses on the important questions of love, friendship, life, death, and retribution. Everyman, who is the main character in the play, has to reap the consequences for all his deeds and actions under the face of Death. Death is sent to Earth, by the call of God, to judge Everyman. Death is another main character used in the play. Death is also the allegorical character is the play.

The theme of death in Everyman makes the audience pay special attention to the importance of the different scenarios described throughout the play. Death, in the play, becomes the reminder for Everyman that he has to pay for all good and bad deeds that he has committed within his lifetime. By the grace of God, Everyman has the chance to reevaluate his life, and correct his wrong doings. Death, adamantly, continues to refresh Everyman's memory of the real system of values. Through these reminders, Everyman can see true intentions of others and the meanings of ...