In: Psychology
The 'Everyman' play was produced in the late 15th century and is
a morality play where the characters try to examine the prospects
of Salvation relating to the Christian faith. It is based on the
belief of Karma, which essentially implies that the good and the
bad deeds that are done by the person in the current life make a
difference in the afterlife. This is depicted as if all the events
and the positive and negative aspects of the life of a person are
being maintained in a ledger book so that the final verdict can be
arrived at for a particular person.
We get to see the life of Everyman which is a wordplay and
represents the life of the whole mankind. In the course of the
play, Everyman tries to convince people so that they help him in
improving his account of the good and bad deeds that he has done.
All the other characters in the play also represent some symbols
like Goods, Material and Knowledge etc. The conflicts that are
inevitably there between the good and the evil have been presented
through the use of conversations and dialogues between the
different characters. This essentially represents the the
conversations and conflicts that take place within the different
senses of self within a person. Towards the end, Everyman realizes
that in this final journey of life he stands alone and all that he
is left with are his good deeds.
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