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English 102 Research Paper, Everyman
Justin C. Blanton
Liberty University
Abstract
Everyman is a play and story that is strong in a lesson about how life is lived and how death is approached. In a way similar to A Christmas Carol, Scrooge would be likened to Everyman. A man who lives his life as a penny pincher and did not care to help others, now begs death for more time so he would not be judged poorly in his end. Death is a figure, a character and we see their embodiment in literature.
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Everyman is a play from England about morality. The author takes human values and represents them by characterizing them and creates conflict in the story in the life of the humans. The story uses allegory in the characters to represent people. Everyman is a play that is described as “an allegorical drama popular in Europe especially …show more content…

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