In the literary works of Everyman and the Book of Job, both tell a story of a protagonist on a quest. The two protagonists go on their own quests, Everyman on his quest for companionship, and Job on his quest for understanding divine justice. Their quests are different, yet they both encounter similar obstacles along the way of their journey. As they make way towards their own journey, the obstacles they encounter are their own friends who betray them. Everyman and Job both learn the hard way that friends are not always true in the end. In Everyman, Everyman goes on a quest to find a friend that will journey with him to death. Everyman hopes that his good friend Fellowship will be the one who will make his account to God with him as Fellowship tells him, “I will not forsake thee to my life’s end”, (Line 213). In this line, Fellowship is giving Everyman false hope, saying that he will go wherever he goes even if it kills him, not knowing what Everyman truly wants from him. When Fellowship realizes that Everyman wants him to join his journey to death, he goes against his …show more content…
God’s punishments leaves Job with nothing left to his name to the point where he cries out to the heavens, “My closest friends have forgotten me”, (Chapter 19, line 14). In this line, Job is feeling betrayed by his own friends, who blame him for his unfortunate situation. They believe that Job has sinned and should repent so that god will forgive him. Thinking he has done nothing wrong, Job is angered that his friends would accuse him of sinning. His friends abandon him after he refuses to repent, leaving Job to continue his quest for divine justice alone. Eventually, his quest is successful as he learns that he is only man and he will never truly understand God’s acts. In addition, he learns that his friends were not true to him or God, betraying the two when they were the ones in the