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Everyman:A Guide To The Gates Of Heaven


            Everyman is, like many of its contemporary plays in the middle.
             ages, concerned greatly with death, it being a morality play designed to send a.
             message to the audience about the traditional Christian beliefs on death and the.
             afterlife. Unlike many previous works on the subject that had certain values.
             represented by characters in the story, in Everyman, these values and objects.
             are directly personified, so as to give no doubt, even to the simplest members of.
             the audience what exactly is meant to be happening. The story, although short,.
             has much significance in that it is meant to show the stages that people should.
             go through while they are dying. The play makes its grim point that we can take.
             with us from this world nothing that we have received, only what we have given.
             Everyman suggests that there is an ultimate accountability, but man has the.
             capability, through faith and reason, to steer himself toward God by using the.
             teachings of the Church to enable him to do the good which is required of all.
             men.
             At the beginning of the play, the Messenger comes in to give us a.
             brief introduction and summary of the story, just in case the audience is not.
             intelligent enough to figure out what is actually meant to be going on in the story.
             Next, we hear from God. This first speech he gives is strikingly familiar in several.
             ways. It has a strong biblical basis, and we are reminded firstly of the.
             Antediluvian period, when God is meant to have decided to destroy mankind due.
             to its corruption. Also, it seems to relate somewhat to extracts from the book of.
             Revelation, in which it is explained how God will judge mankind at the end of the.
             world. In this case, there seems to be a slight inconsistency with the story.
             Everyman is symbolic here of the entire human race, and is saved by his.
             acceptance of death and his final repentance. But, according to the Bible, not all.
             of mankind will actually be saved, but many will be sent to Hell.


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