The theme of a piece of fiction is its view about life and how people behave, which should be expressed in a sentence with a subject, verb, and object. However, the theme of a fable is its moral and the theme of a parable is its teaching. The theme in literature is generally not intended to preach (for that is its purpose, which differs from theme), except in a work such as Everyman, which is a religious allegory, where its purpose is didactic, meaning it was written to teach a lesson about sin, forgiveness, and salvation.  Thus, the themes in Everyman coincide with its purpose, which is to teach us moral lessons:  if one falls into the “slough of despond,” for example, one must remember the goodness of God, pray, and continue to move forward in spite of the difficulties.  Each time you become away of a key topic in Everyman, try to express it as a “moral” in the form of a sentence, for in that way you will more exactly identify its themes. Its very very broad theme would be that “Life consists of a journey to God, and humankind is weak and needs God’s grace in their journey to find Him.”

One theme is alienation and loneliness. Everyman discovers that when he faces death and God's judgment, he must do so alone.

Another theme is atonement and forgiveness. Everyman seeks atonement for his sins and then is given God's forgiveness for his sins.

Everyman also discovers that earthly friends and family will ultimately betray you because they are selfish. Everyman is forced to look for greater truths when he's abandoned by others.

Everyman isn't prepared to go with death to meet God, and he asks for extra time to get ready. He uses this time to look at how he's spent his life.

The importance of God and religion is also shown. Religion provides the way to get God's salvation.

It's believed that good deeds will get a person to heaven. Family, friends, or any earthly possessions aren't important.

Knowledge gives Everyman the help he needs to recognize and understand how he has sinned. This knowledge leads him to confession and salvation.

Sin is the main theme of the play. Sin causes man to stray from God, and he must renounce his sins in order to be saved. 

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What is the theme of Everyman?

Everyman is a religious allegory written anonymously in the late fifteenth century. It is mainly a story of Christian salvation in which the author expresses that the most important thing we have, which we will carry with us into the afterlife, is our moral actions.

When our main character, Everyman, who is representative of all men and women, is sentenced to judgment before God, he desperately tries to convince his "friends" to come with him on his journey. But one by one, as they deny him, we are taught that material goods and our friends and family cannot accompany us on the true journey toward salvation.

Ultimately, the story is a preaching of the ideas of Catholicism, mainly that we (all people) must make our journey to the afterlife on our own, with only our good deeds to accompany us. We cannot bring our friends, family, or goods, and thus the most important thing we should be focused on during our life is the good acts of kindness and morality which build our characters.

What is the theme of Everyman?

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 (material goods, beauty, wealth, friends, relatives, etc.) will forsake you except for knowledge and good deeds.  However, only knowledge can accompany you into the grave to speak on your behalf. 

"Everyman" was produced at a time when most people were unable to read for themselves and they depended on the plays, sculptures, and stained glass windows in churches to teach them about the stories in the Bible and the correct way to act in their daily lives.

What is the main theme of the play "Everyman" by Anonymous?

One significant theme, which was written for Christian readers but is apropos for any audience, is the theme of forgiveness. It is appropriate for all because we each and everyone do things in our life of limited understanding and knowledge that turn out to be hurtful to others (unintentionally or willfully) or to ourselves and for which we need to make restitution in some form or other and for which we need forgiveness.

What is the main theme of the play "Everyman" by Anonymous?

Everyman is an allegorical morality play that was performed to teach a lesson to the medieval audience.  The play teaches us that every man must face his death alone with only the good deeds that he has completed during his life, for this is all that truly matters. It is impossible to build up good deeds while at the same time indulging in worldly pleasures. Family, friends, beauty, strength, health, and even our senses will desert us during this final journey. Therefore, we must make sure that we are focusing on the right things in life so that we will be prepared for death.

What is the main theme of the play "Everyman" by Anonymous?

The main focus of this play has to be the way we invest our time and resources in this life given the ephemeral nature of our existence and the inescapable reality of death that awaits us all. Given these realities, we need to think very carefully about what we do with our lives now in the light of what awaits us in our eternal future.

What is the main theme of the play "Everyman" by Anonymous?

I agree with the earlier posts. Another standard medieval/Renaissance theme of this play is the theme of "mutability" -- the idea that our lives on earth are constantly changing and that the only source of true stability and lasting happiness for us is God in heaven.  People in the middle ages believed that our lives here on earth were merely and highly ephemeral. They believed that the existence we really needed to think about was our existence in our afterlives.

What is the main theme of the play "Everyman" by Anonymous?

One could choose from many of the different themes depicted in the play Everyman as the most important. For me, I would tend to lead towards the idea that the most important theme of the play would be one which highlights the importance of good deeds. Hopefully, readers, or watchers, of the play come to realize that materialistic possessions are not what hold the most importance in life. Instead, it is important to come away from the play with the knowledge that doing good in life is, by far, more important.