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Title: Everyman AND The Morality Play


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EverymanANDThe Morality Play
  • Mr. Kott

2
What is the purpose of a Morality Play?
  • To make Christianity more real to the audience by
    dramatizing the meaning of religion in terms of
    everyday human experience.
  • Deals with an abstract, moral conflict, turned
    into drama in the real world.
  • Good Vs. Evil- Psychomachia
  • Constantly going on in the soul of everyman

3
Everyman
  • Before 1500
  • Possibly last section of larger play
  • Doesnt include a beginning where man is innocent
    and about to fall into sin
  • Dark tone, not much of a satire

4
What is the moral of the story?Can you pinpoint
an exact reference in the text?
  • Lines 864-869

5
Oh the Burdens of dealing with the uneducated
  • Lines 902-921

6
We all need somebody to Lean on
  • What is Everymans support structure throughout
    the play? Chart his support

7
Good Deeds ETERNAL LIFE!
Beauty, Strength, Discretion, Five Wits
Knowledge Confession
Good Deeds
Goods
Kindred Cousin
Fellowship
8
Everyman as a Type of Containment Strategy
  • Priesthood
  • Positive
  • Knowledge
  • Line 706 up to 749
  • What is the play saying about the clergy?
  • Negative
  • 750-771
  • Is it really negative?

9
Confession
  • Why have Knowledge bring Confession?
  • that cleansing river (536).
  • Confession speaks Lines 554 through 572

10
Now why would Post-Henry VIIIEngland have a
problem with this?
  • The priest thing
  • The 7 Sacraments
  • Faith versus Good Deeds
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