1a. What does Everyman want from Death?
2a. Who deserts Everyman? Who stays with him?
3a. What is Everyman's fate? Why?
4a. What lessons does this play teach?
5a. Evaluate whether Everyman deserved to be saved.
1b. What is Everyman's state of mind as he talks with Death? Why?
2b. Why does Everyman despair over the loss of his companions?
3b. What does Everyman's last speech show?
4b. This play is based on the religious assumption that people will be judged at the end of life. Explain whether the play is effective if you do not share that belief.
5b. What qualities do you think people should strive for in their lives?
Morality Play. Morality plays are clearly didactic, or meant to teach a lesson. How is the message of Everyman didactic? How do specific characters contribute to a didactic tone?
Naive Allegory. Explain what makes Everyman a naive allegory.
1. Write fortune cookie inserts that make pronouncements about human nature, such as those expressed in Everyman.
2. Write a sermon or persuasive speech about an issue related to human nature or behavior about which you feel strongly. For example, you might write about being kind to others or about respecting differences.
3. Write a short naive allegory. First choose a purpose for your allegory. Then identify the objects, action, abstractions that will be personified.
Using Proper Capitalization. Rewrite the following sentences, correcting errors in capitalization. If no corrections are needed, write No Errors after the sentence.
1. In addition to Everyman, other morality plays and another type of religious play, called the mystery play, were produced in the Medieval Period.
2. The morality play the Pride of life predates Everyman by almost a century.
3. Another morality play, The castle of perseverance, also appeared at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
4. Mystery plays, such as The York Play Of The Crucifixion, dramatized Biblical stories for the common people.
5. The Second shepherds' play, one of the mystery plays, uses comedy as well as drama to tell the story of Christ's birth.
