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 4 th 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,/