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Morality Play In Everyman

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Everyman is an ancient morality play about everymen as our protagonist, this play takes us through Everyman’s pilgrim. According to Oxford dictionary tenth edition pilgrim is a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons. So throughout this essay we will be analysing different aspects of the play and discuss how it was relevant to people and what was the motive behind writing such plays which according to Oliver and Nick these plays were not meant to entertain, but to teach morals and religion to uneducated lower classes of people in medieval Europe. So playwrights who wrote these plays were more like the priests because of the word of God they interpreted to people through morality plays though not preaching. 2 Thimothy verses 2 to 4 says “Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”
According to Paulson (2007) Everyman was written during the medieval period, the setting of the play in terms of place is between Earth and Heaven for in the play we find that God himself sent death to call upon everyman who was on Earth enjoying his riches and forgot who his creator was. The following line is the line found in the play that God said to Death ordering him to go to

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