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AWR 201 - Critical Reading and Writing - Research Paper

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Writing and Research (AWR 201)

   

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AWR 201 -  In this assignment, we discuss an essay in Everyman, the death has been viewed from different perspectives and from different cultures and how it impacts an individual’s character within a culture. The play has shown that the journey towards death has always been linked to the morals, values, and experiences of life. The author has also utilized death as an allegory to indicate that destiny is unavoidable regardless of the actions that one has taken in their lifetime.

AWR 201 - Critical Reading and Writing - Research Paper

   

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Writing and Research (AWR 201)

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Running head: ENGLISH ESSAYEnglish Essay Name of the Student Name of the University Author note
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1ENGLISH ESSAYThesis Statement ‘Everyman’ brings out the concept of peoples’ struggle of choosing between the finalspiritual judgment and the other worldly beings, where death has been portrayed as a ultimatedestination. IntroductionLate fifteenth century drama, The Summoning of Everyman, or mostly called as‘Everyman’ is a play which displays the value of death and life. This has also been used asman’s spiritual message to God. Everyman is mostly considered as a morality play.According to Albert (2017) in the morality plays, the allegories tend to figure out the effortsthat have been made between the seven vices and seven virtues within a man’s heart.Everyman is a play that portrays a picture of what a Christian should do or should not do andhow they are expected to lead their lives for saving the souls from the conviction of death.The portrayal of death in the play ‘Everyman’ has been impacted by the choice living life of aman. The play also shows a continuous conflict between the treasures, spiritual enrichmentand relationship, hell and heaven and the verdict of God. It has also been stated by Albert(2017) that Everyman is a struggle between good and evil, between seven virtues as well asseven vices”. In this play, the audience finds out how transitory life is, while the playcarefully documents the journey of Everyman from the life full of sins towards the life freefrom any sin and ultimately a holy death. Therefore, this essay discuses the author’sperception of death and the treatment of death in the play Everyman. DiscussionIn Everyman, the death has been viewed from different perspectives and fromdifferent cultures and how it impacts an individual’s character within a culture. The play has
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2ENGLISH ESSAYshown that the journey towards death has always been linked to the morals, values and theexperiences of life. The author has also utilized the death as an allegory to indicate thatdestiny is unavoidable regardless of the actions that one has taken in their life time. At theinitial stage of the play, the author has shown that God has been disappointed with Everymandue to his focus on searching and gaining of the material wealth. Therefore, it has been seenthat God has sent Death for conveying the message to Everyman that his life is almost at theend, “...Go thou to Everyman, And show him in my name, A pilgrimage he must on himtake...” In return to this message, Everyman had tried to bribe the representative of Deathwith some of his material possessions; however, eventually Death refuses the offer. Throughthis, the author has depicted that the death has no such greed for these material possessionsand has no value of those (Hayek, 2015). Death has also been considered as a negativecharacter as Everyman has tried to give bribe to Death for evading the obvious. However,Death has informed that this destiny is inevitable, “......everyman I arrest and no man spare,for it is God's commandment that all to me should be obedient.” He has also portrayed that hecannot live twice on the Earth; rather he can only come back here for once. This alsorepresents that each man on this earth has only one chance for living life. Furthermore,Everyman has seen to mustering his friends for accompanying in the journey, so that he doesnot have to face the journey all alone. Later, when Everyman meets confession, he has seen to be seeking forgiveness fromGod for all his sins. This is another way of punishing himself with courage. After this, whenconfession has proclaimed that Everyman has been forgiven for all his sins, Good Deedsseems to be strong and comfortable in accompanying him to the grave. Lastly, the authorshows that the Good Deeds are the only one that accompanies him to the final destination.This also portrays that the good deeds of a man are the only material being that goes with himto his grave. Here, Death has been perceived in a negative way and it has portrayed the
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