Importance of ending as reflected to the play, Everyman.

Everyman, as Good Deeds accompanies him to the grave, seems to speak directly to the audience – now, in the words of G.A. Lester “as firm in understanding as he was formerly in ignorance”:

Take example, all ye that this do hear or see How they that I loved best do forsake me, Except my Good Deeds that bideth truly.

This is the moral of the play, oft-stated, and, at the end, made manifest in the resolution of the plot. It is a traditional Christian teaching, and one that would have met with the strong approval of the Catholic Christian Church dominant in England at the turn of the 16th Century.