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kbaines2
kbaines2
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High School - 9th Grade

The fact that "Everyman" has no determined setting means what to the audience?

i think that it is something along the lines of a better connection to the moral, but i dont know.

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Posted by kbaines2 on Monday January 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM and tagged with everyman, setting.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

    eNotes Editor

    The fact that "Everyman" has no established setting fits with the title, and with the themes. Just as this could be happening to everyone and anyone, so it could be happening anywhere. The lack of a specified setting makes the play more successfully universal.

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    http://www.enotes.com/everyman/themes

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    Posted by gbeatty on Monday January 26, 2009 at 4:23 PM


  2. kimfuji Teacher
    College - Freshman

    eNotes Editor

    Everyman is a dramatized allegory. An allegory is a narrative in which the characters and action, and sometimes the setting as well, have two levels of meaning. The first level is literal -- a man is going on a trip. The second level is symbolic -- Everyman's life is a journey from birth to death, and every man makes this same trip. An allegory must make sense at both levels. All of the literal pieces will fit together to tell a story -- what happens. In addition, all of the symbolic pieces will fit together to teach a moral -- what the story means.

    It has no setting because it is an allegory, which is meant to apply to everyone.

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    Posted by kimfuji on Friday October 2, 2009 at 7:55 PM