Analysis Of The Play Everyman

Everyman is a play written by an unknown Author in the 15th Century. According to Gradesaver(2010) This play was translated from the Dutch play Elckerlijc in 1945 and Dr Logeman argued that Petrus Dorlundus is the writer of Elckerlijc but Arnold Williams simplified it to modern English. This is a morality play based on a Religion particularly Catholic “Everyman reminds the audience of the path to God according to the Medieval Catholic Church” eNotes (2015). Here I will be discussing actors within the play itself and the roles they played. Attacking each and every aspect of the play including themes, metaphoric characterization and the storyline itself in a form of an analysis. Everyman is an intriguing play that takes ones soul on a journey of guilt, anticipation and hope.

The personified characters and ironic storyline is what initially grasps the reader’s attention. The structure of the play is well executed. Starting from the end of the story as suppose to the beginning and working itself all around to the end again, is different and has absolute creative thinking. The opening piece or speech of the messenger was good but what really grabbed my attention is Gods opening

The name given to the character everyman has quite some irony in it in terms of whom Everyman represents. Everyman represents everyone in the world but in a summed up version of one character that has taken every ones characteristics, challenges, fears, hopes and beliefs into consideration. Reading and following everyman makes you more involved with the character and you get touched and affected by Everyman’s consequences as you can relate to him. Death is the anthogonist, Good-deeds is the dynamic who goes from being reluctant, at the event where he has to accompany Everyman on his journey to death and beyond, to when he agrees. God is possibly the statue character because throughout the play he doesn’t