Everyman As A Moral Play In The Play Everyman

A moral play is a type of theater performance that uses allegorical, Characters to teach the audience a moral lesson. This type of play originated in medieval Europe, first appearing in the 1400s, and typically was of a Christian nature. The morality play has remained a cultural influence to some degree, although it has waned in popularity.
The basic premise of the morality play, in which the main character, who represents all people, and to whom audiences can relate, makes a journey and is influenced by characters along the way is still common in many works of theater and film. Everyman, it a short play of some few lines, portrays a complacent, Everyman who is informed by Death of his approaching end.
The play shows the hero’s progression from despair and fear of death to a Christian resignation that is the prelude to redemption. First, everyman is deserted by his false friends: his casual companions, his kin, and his wealth. He falls back on his Good Deeds, his strength, his Beauty, his Intelligence, his Knowledge.
These assist him in making his book of accounts, but at the end, when he must go to the grave, all desert him save his Good Deeds alone. 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 falls under morality plays because it got characters to teach the audience a moral lesson and it a cultural influence to some degree.
Messenger, is the first character to appear. The messenger