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personifies different abstract ideas like-fellow ship, material goods, as well as knowledge3. In
order to fulfill its objective to educate the mass about the moral values the plot of the play is
designed in a way which showcases, conflicts between conflicts between the good and the evil.
The portrayal of this conflict has been made lively through the interaction between different
characters. The natural flow of the narrative will portray how Everyman is singled out as he was
unable to find out a company on his way to pilgrimage. Thus in his way to the pilgrimage
‘Everyman realizes that a person was left alone even by his near and dear one when death is
approaching. Only his or her god deeds stay with the person when he or she encounters God at
the time of death4.
The theme of death is highlighted all through the play. The play dramatizes the encounter
of Everyman with death and this dramatization leads to the manifestation of the truths related to
death of a person. In this play, the author has been depicted the theme of death depending on the
Catholic point of view. The Catholic perception of death which was very popular during the 15
th and 16 th century aims to deliver the follower of the catholic Christianity, the moral message
that every human being live each day of his life keeping in mind the consequences of his or her
deeds that the person has to undergo during the eternal life in heaven5. According to the
perception of the author as depicted in this play, death is inevitable and when a person
encounters death, he becomes all alone. Another most important lesson which is highlighted in
3 essaysprofessors.com, "Religion Essay Sample: Perceptions and Treatment of Death in Everyman |
EssaysProfessors.com", essaysprofessors.com, 2019, online, Internet, 5 May 2019. , Available:
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4 Jernigan, Daniel K., Walter Wadiak, and Michelle Wang, eds.
Narrating Death: The Limit of
Literature. Routledge, 2018.
5 www.cambridge.org, www.cambridge.org, 2019, online, Internet, 5 May 2019. , Available:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-survey/article/deaths-arrival-and-everymans-separation/.

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