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Everyman: Morality Play Study Guide

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Everyman: Morality Play study guide contains literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

A prologue, read by the Messenger asks the audience to give their attention and announces the purpose of the play, which will show us our lives as well as our deaths (“our ending”) and how we humans are always (“all day”) transitory: changing from one state into another.

God speaks next, and immediately launches into a criticism of the way that “all creatures” are not serving Him properly. People are living without “dread” (fear) in the world without any thought of heaven or hell, or the judgment that will eventually come to them. “In worldly riches is all their mind”, God says. Everyone is living purely for their own pleasure, but yet they are not at all secure in their lives. God sees everything decaying, and getting worse “fro year to…

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• Everyman: Morality Play Summary
• About Everyman: Morality Play
• Character List
• Glossary of Terms
• Major Themes
• Quotes and Analysis
• Summary and Analysis of Section 1 (l.1-183)
• Summary and Analysis of Section 2 (l.184-462)
• Summary and Analysis of Section 3 (l.462-650)
• Summary and Analysis of Section 4 (l.651-922)
• The Morality Play
• Religious Drama
• A General Note on Character
• Related Links on Everyman: Morality Play
• Suggested Essay Questions
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 1
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 2
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 3
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 4
• Test Yourself! - Quiz 5
• Author of ClassicNote and Sources

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