Everyman and The Pardoner's Tale

Meaning and significance of death in the light of the Christian narrative is addressed and shows a deep understanding, including a detailed description and many examples.

Everyman is a Christian morality play written during the 1400s. No one yet knows who wrote this play. It is said that Everyman is the English translation of similar Dutch morality play of the same period called Elckerlijc. Everyman is generally represented as the best and most original example of the English morality play. “Like other morality plays from the late medieval period, it is meant to communicate a simple moral lesson to both educated and illiterate audiences” (Gyamfi & Schmidt, 2011). “Everyman” is about a man who is content with his life when Death calls and tells him about his end. The author has used metaphorical names for characters to show up the moral of the play.

The play illustrated by Adu-Gyamfi & Schmidt (2011), “Everyman” written by an anonymous writer late in the fifteenth-century (p. 265-287), interconnects religious allegories with worldly moral lessons on several main reasons that good deeds and works are required and needed, but they do not save humanity from spiritual death. The play conveys a story about Everyman’s (representing human individuals) natural life journey to death. The morality of the play helps the audience appreciate the history of Christianity. The focal point throughout the play is about humanities, life plan and a journey that requires every man to construct an unworldly firm foundation built up strong to help overcome any uprooting storm within a lifetime. Its personification comes in the form of the characters Everyman, Goods, and Goods Deeds, who embodied the concept of teaching lessons to humanity of the significance of living a Christ-centered life and learning to allow the heart restored and guided by God to help aid good judgement (Adu-Gyamfi & Schmidt, 2011). Thomas F. Van Laan (1963) describes Everyman’s play, “The human action and its allegorical significance together form a distinct structural pattern which not only imposes discipline but also contributes its own intrinsic meaning”. From the start of the first phase 5-6, the first point of view of the play engages, “…That of our lives and ending* shows / How transitory we be all day.*…” (Adu-Gyamfi & Schmidt, 2011). The play displays how

The author of the play Everyman views death from the Catholic point of view. The moral message to live each day with the goal of eternal life in Heaven in mind sets the tone of the play. Everyman illustrates that every man’s soul needs to be saved before death or he will not have eternal life with God. The author views death as the foundation of man’s spiritual journey with God in Heaven or as the initiation of the soul’s damnation. The author portrays death as God’s messenger. The play underscores a message that the treatment of death is similar for every man, as he is held accountable for his actions and deeds in life upon facing death. Additionally, the only way to avoid death is to strive towards achieving ever-lasting life with God in

Abstract The author’s perception and treatment of Everyman are that each individual need to prepare for it by repenting, following God, and doing good works. The author’s perception is that at the end of the day one cannot take anything or anyone with them when they die. The only entity someone can take is their actions and how they use the resources that are given to them. Those who put God before everything and perform good works will enjoy eternity with Him, but those who enjoy only the pleasures of life and forget God, will not. The author’s main message throughout the play is to not fearful of death but know that one day everyone will die, so do as much good as one can, repent of one’s sins, and to put God first. Keywords: author, perception, treatment, death The Author’s Perception and Treatment of Death in Everyman In the late fifteenth century, an unknown author wrote a morality play called Everyman. According to Pearson, a morality play during the Medieval period would communicate a moral lesson and make it so simple that both illiterate and well-educated audiences could both understand the lesson (Adu-Gyamfi, 2016). One may believe that the author of Everyman want to communicate to the audience that everyone will receive judgment the actions they commit on Earth. The author’s perception of death is that God is the only one who has the power to control when each individual die, so if one has a relationship with Him one should not be fearful death. The author

Death is among the greatest mysteries of the human existence, one of the issues being that neither science, religion, or philosophy have definitive explanations on it. Although Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet explore death and dying, the former advocates for people to be more optimistic in these circumstances than the latter. Station Eleven’s characters focus their thoughts on living and improving their situation to achieve their goals while Hamlet's characters concentrate on dying and how to end the misery of life, as they are hopeless to change their fate. The ability to make decisions result in opposite outcomes for the characters in each text as Station Eleven’s characters have free will and are rewarded for using it, whereas Hamlet’s characters are punished for seeking to control their future. The development of each character’s life is due to their respective text favouring or punishing free will. The consequences of exercising free will in Station Eleven yield positive results because humans can control their own destiny in a world of death, while in Hamlet, contrarily, humans are controlled by fate and have to endure the consequences of attempting to defeat it.

In the play “everyman” death is depicted as something that is terribly feared as no one seemed ready for it, death is perceived as something that takes one away from the pleasures of this world.

“The Pardoner’s Tale”, included in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a story of greed, deception, and selfishness that destroys a friendship. The tale takes place in two different locations, one being the tavern, where the story begins and the other being under a tree, where the reader is introduced to the conflict. The main characters in “The Pardoner’s Tale” are the three rioters, who share a friendship, the young tavern-knave and the innkeeper, who try to warn the rioters, the old man, who the rioters come across on their journey, and Death. In the story the rioters come across a complication, Death has been taking lives, therefore they decide to search for Death and kill him.

The difference in the tales “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” and “The Pardoner's Tale” is in the form of what the tale is about and the main characters. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” is a bit more risque than “The Pardoner’s Tale.” It is about a knight that does something bad and he has to go on a quest for about a year to find out what women desire the most. “The Pardoner’s Tale” is about three men who go and try to kill Death. BOth of these stories include some type of irony. The irony in “The Pardoner’s Tale” is that the men try to kill Death, but they end up dying at the end of the tale. The irony in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” is that the queen praises the knight for doing something bad instead of punishing him at the beginning. In “The Pardoner’s

Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale," a relatively straightforward satirical and anti-capitalist view of the church, contrasts motifs of sin with the salvational properties of religion to draw out the complex self-loathing of the emasculated Pardoner. In particular, Chaucer concentrates on the Pardoner's references to the evils of alcohol, gambling, blasphemy, and money, which aim not only to condemn his listeners and unbuckle their purses, but to elicit their wrath and expose his eunuchism.

The play Everyman may have been written many years ago, but its lessons are still relevant today. Generally, the facts of death are very traumatizing and in fact unthinkable. This leads the modern day Everyman to ignore its significance, dying without acknowledging or reflecting on their lives here on earth. It is based on this fact that this paper aims to show the position of the author of the play “Everyman” regarding death.

Working outline I. Introduction II. Paragraph One: Morality and Death III. Paragraph Two: Death bringing loneliness and alienation IV. Paragraph Three: Life is Eternal, and Death is Inevitable for Everyone V. Paragraph Four: The personification of death VI. Paragraph Five: Catholicism and death VII.

Everyman is a morality play from the 15th century with no known author, and The Seventh Seal is a 1950’s fantasy film about a knight returning from the Crusades. Although the timelines for these two pieces don’t match up, they share a lot of similarities: the most prominent of which being the personification of death into a character. Both pieces feature death as an ever-present entity and solidify the inevitability of death. However, through the characterizations of death within these two pieces, the two offer differing views on the role of religion in human mortality, and the creators offer interesting views of human relationships with death himself.

Temporary tears and goodbyes.I finally left the nest. My proposal was accepted and my dreams are finally coming true. My pathway of success awaits me in Canterbury. On this journey, I am traveling with 30 other people who I have no idea who they are and where they orginated from. I find this an opportunity to reveal my openmindedness and meet new people. To keep this between me and you, at the same time, I am nervous and afraid because i dont know the capibilities of these strangers. So far on this journey we stop at a Tavern Inn to get our rest and refresh for the next day of our journey. The host was welcomimg and warm-hearted. Strangely, he created some sort of game for us to win free a meal. In order to win this wondeful ,delicious feast, we have to tell a story to the other

The Pardoner’s Tale started off with three friends who were together when a funeral knell rang. They found out that it was rung because one of their friends was killed by a man named “Death.” He was a mysterious man, and little about him was known. The men became mad and set out to find death to get revenge on him. Shortly after, they came across an elderly man sitting alone. He claimed that “death wouldn’t come to him,” and that he was waiting for death. He had traveled all over the world while waiting for it to arrive. When the men asked if he knew how to find death, the elderly man told them they could find it behind an oak tree a little ways down the road. The men eagerly scurried to the tree, but instead of death, they found numerous bags