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        <title><![CDATA[The exposition of &quot;Everyman&quot; opens with the Messenger...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The exposition of &quot;Everyman&quot; opens with the Messenger announcing the play's purpose:  &quot;..a moral play./That of our lives and ending shows/How transitory we be all day.&quot;  The Messenger tells the audience that Everyman is to be called by God to a reckoning and look to the end of his life as he begins it.After God reflects upon man's evil ways, He then summons Death and instructs him to take Everyman on a journey. ...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Strictly speaking, exposition is delivered by a narrator as part of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Strictly speaking, exposition is delivered by a narrator as part of fiction. In a play, there is rarely full exposition. That said, the Messenger who announces the play at the beginning does in fact directly address the audience, telling us what the play will be about and setting the stage for later action. That's the most direct example of exposition. However, given the allegorical nature of the play, you could argue that the over-elaborate...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:25:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the exposition in the play &quot;Everyman&quot;?  ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the exposition in the play &quot;Everyman&quot;?  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:35:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The basic theme of this morality play is the lesson of how to correctly...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The basic theme of this morality play is the lesson of how to correctly and morally live your life here on earth.  Everyman absolutely has faults.  This is the whole purpose of the play...God is dissatisfied with Everyman's behavior and He sends Death to tell Everyman that his days are numbered. Everyman attempts to bargain for more time, and then sets out to seek a partner for the journey.  The moral, then, is that everyone and all things...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:27:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the theme of &quot;Everyman&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the theme of &quot;Everyman&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:31:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a case where the plot structure and the meaning of the work...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a case where the plot structure and the meaning of the work align nicely. By that I mean, it seems like things are going more and more in one direction for Everyman. He's been called for God for judgment, but when he asks all of his companions/the things he's valued in life to go with him, he's disappointed. None can or will come with him. This creates a depressing feel and a kind of downward momentum—perhaps downward to hell, if you...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:14:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is meant by the reversal theme in Everyman?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is meant by the reversal theme in Everyman?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:12:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An allegory is a literary work which has two or more levels of meaning:...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An allegory is a literary work which has two or more levels of meaning: one literal level and one or more symbolic or figurative levels. Please visit the links below for more information.If we were to look at the play, Everyman, for its literal meaning, we would read a story about a character named Everyman who goes on a journey to the end of his life (death) and tries to get his companions (named Fellowship, Kindred, etc.) to accompany...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:04:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some examples of how Everyman functions as an allegory?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are some examples of how Everyman functions as an allegory?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:06:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Everyman is called to make an account of his life, he tries...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Everyman is called to make an account of his life, he tries desperately to find someone to go with him and speak on his behalf. He asks his Goods to go with him, because he realizes that he has loved material things more than he has loved God. Goods, however, cannot go with him. After all, you can't take it with you! (I couldn't resist that one.)So Everyman has to leave his Goods behind for &quot;another to deceive in the same wise.&quot;...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:59:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Everyman get rid of his goods?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Everyman get rid of his goods?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:58:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fellowship is the first to abandon Everyman on his journey. Fellowship...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Fellowship is the first to abandon Everyman on his journey. Fellowship is full of promises of being there for him, going wherever he went, and standing by him. Yet, when learning of Everyman's destination, he quickly begs off. Fellowship's promises are empty in the face of serious matters.Fellowship's loyalty is fickle. Fellowship was only there for the good times. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:33:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The play Everyman is a morality play intended to be performed before...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The play Everyman is a morality play intended to be performed before illiterate masses at church in order to teach them the correct way to live and behave.  Everyman is informed by Death that God is very angry with his lifestyle and that he must go to see God on judgement day.  Everyman grovels, tries to get more time, and finally accepts his fate.  He attempts to get friends, family, beauty, etc. to go with him, but as soon as they all...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:59:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the story Everyman ,what does he lose first?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the story Everyman ,what does he lose first?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:06:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Many times, playwrights have events offstage and reported later on stage...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/everyman/q-and-a/why-everyman-s-acceptance-last-sacraments-11553</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Many times, playwrights have events offstage and reported later on stage to give the audience the opportunity to experience it for themselves through their own individual imagination.  If it is a scary event, what is scary for one will not have the same effect for another; however, if everyone has to imagine the event, everyone is equally scared because of what he/she imagines.  This way, the author of the play gets the reaction he wants...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:03:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Everyman is a medieval morality play.  Its goal was to specifically to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Everyman is a medieval morality play.  Its goal was to specifically to teach a lesson to the audience.  In this case, the audience is, literally, every man (man = human).  The message includes clear instructions on how to achieve everlasting life in God's kingdom.  The author focuses on Good Deeds and their necessity for any moral man.  However, the author sticks closely to Catholicism, the dominant religion of the time.  Catholic dogma...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:02:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is Everyman's acceptance of the last sacraments performed offstage?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/everyman/q-and-a/why-everyman-s-acceptance-last-sacraments-11553</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why is Everyman's acceptance of the last sacraments performed offstage?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:40:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The only thing that matters in the end are good deeds. Strength, beauty,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The only thing that matters in the end are good deeds. Strength, beauty, and knowledge are not able to speak of a person's character, Good Deeds will speak for Everyman.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Nov 2007 09:58:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why can't Knowledge accompany Everyman to his final reckoning?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why can't Knowledge accompany Everyman to his final reckoning?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Nov 2007 09:50:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[God is unhappy with the way Everyman is living his life.  Money is one...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[God is unhappy with the way Everyman is living his life.  Money is one factor, but there are many others.  Remember that Everyman is one of the first morality plays, and it would be performed in church to teach the every day folks who didn't read and write how they were supposed to live.  Plays of this type were a common and successful way of teaching the illiterate masses the words and ways of the Bible.  After Death is sent to deliver...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:21:07 PST</pubDate>
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