The Play Illustrated By Adu Gyamfi Schmidt - 1608 Words

The play illustrated by Adu-Gyamfi Schmidt (2011), â€Å"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 restore d and guided by God to help aid good judgement (Adu-Gyamfi Schmidt, 2011). Thomas F. Van Laan (1963) describes Everyman’s play, â€Å"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, â€Å"†¦That of our lives and ending* shows / How transitory we be all day.*†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Adu-Gyamfi Schmidt, 2011). The play displays howShow MoreRelatedEveryman As A Medieval Morality Play1684 Words   |  7 Pagesmedieval morality play.1 The play is a work portraying how God in heaven sends death to call forth every creature to present itself before him to answer for every action in this world. It shows the audience and readers what goes on in life and ending of it all through death. From the very beginning, the play classically shows that it deals with human exper iences with the focus on morals. Everyman is a Christian play written to promote Christianity as a religion. At the time when the play was written,