Everyman

Everyman

Thesis Statement

“Everyman" is an English morality play using allegorical characters to represent what values ??throughout their entire life. Everyman has not been living a virtuous life centered on God and his kingdom, but places a high value on" the riches of the world "and goods. As the game progresses, Everyman is summoned by the death and realizes that he is not ready to die and will not do it alone. He repents of his sins and find someone to accompany him on his journey to realize his life to God. He quickly realizes that the things he held dear to his heart during his earthly walk will fade and abandon him; he must die alone and his Good Deeds are all he can take with him into heaven.

Discussion

Philip Roth's novel Everyman focuses on issues associated with illness, aging, and death. The author's preoccupation with the body's decay and mortality is partially, but not solely, due to Roth's own experiences with illnesses and age. The 73-year-old author, himself a survivor of a number of surgeries, including quintuple bypass and back and knee operations, dealt with the "medical history of the male body" and its inseparability from a man's overall biography in a number of his earlier writings, Patrimony, Sabbath's Theater, and The Dying Animal, among them. In these novels, he has done so within the context of the other artistic themes he has explored in the course of his literary career (Roth, 2006).

Generally conceded to be the finest example of the type of late medieval drama known as a morality play, Everyman (or, more properly, The Summoning of Everyman) was produced between 1485 and 1500. As is the case with all moralities, Everyman concerns the moral life of an individual human being, representative of all people (hence the name Everyman), and depicted through the use of personified abstractions, or allegory.

In Everyman, however, the nameless protagonist's medical biography becomes "identical" with his personal biography, and the close focus on the body's decomposition insists the reader pay attention to parallel processes of disintegration that take place in the realms of interpersonal and professional relationships: those between parents and a son, a husband and his spouses, a father and his children, a brother and his sibling, an advertising agency's artistic director and his colleagues and friends, an artist and his disciples. The exploration of the tensions generated by these categories that constitute the rich and complicated tapestry of human existence gives rise to a powerful and self-propelling narrative of a man's need to account for both his past deeds and the moral and ethical choices that informed his behavior and decisions as he faces death (Roth, 2006).

A Philip Roth seems to voluntarily a foot in the grave but that book again an excellent little work in the form of a balance of life: a life punctuated by surgery and women who found themselves still at the head of "this man ". If some parts are a bit chilling - the opening words of ...