Everyman & Antigone
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Everyman is a morality play and Antigone is a tragedy. In Everyman, like all morality plays, there is an attempt to show the conflict between good and evil and the ways in which a good Christian faces death. The structure allegorically dramatizes characters such as Everyman, Good Deeds, and Avarice. Everyman receives a summons from Death and tries to get his friends to make the journey with him, but only Good Deeds remains faithful to him on his journey. Good Deeds represents a talented person who wastes their talents and ends of being cast into the dark because of it. Death explains to Everyman the Parable of the Talents when he asks for an accounting of his life. Everyman must justify to God, “How thou hast spent thy life and in what wise” (Everyman 109). The structure of Everyman follows the allegory of Christian redemption. A messenger, God and Death demand the account book from Ever
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