Everyman

From Zeugma

Everyman is a medieval morality play from the early 1500's.  Morality plays used allegory to show struggle with morality and Christianity.  In this play, Everyman is summoned by Death to account for his sins and is turned away by his friends who represent material goods, wealth, and the like, and instead falls back on Good Deeds, Strength, Beauty, and Knowledge.  In the end everyone deserts Everyman except for Good Deeds.  This play is used to show that nothing from our life on earth can be taken into the next, except for what we have given, or the good deeds that we have done.

S. Todd