Everyman (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: n/a
- First Published: 1508
- Type of Plot: Morality
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Setting: Indeterminate
- Genres: Drama, Allegory, Didactic literature, Morality play
- Subjects: Sin or Original sin, Religion, God, Christianity, Death or dying, Afterlife, Middle Ages
- Locales: Spiritual realms
Characters Discussed
God, who has decided to have a reckoning of all men.
Death, who is summoned to receive God’s instructions to search out Everyman. Death agrees to give Everyman some time to gather companions to make the journey with him.
Everyman, whom Death approaches and orders to make the long journey to Paradise to give an accounting for his life.
Good-Deeds, the one companion who can and will make the entire journey with Everyman. Everyman finds Good- Deeds too weak to stir, but after Everyman accepts penance, Good- Deeds is fit for the...
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