In the medieval play Everyman, the author uses the play as a piece of didactic literature. Everyman is a morality play that uses an individual, Everyman, to represent all men. The play dramatizes his reckoning with death and salvation to show that when one dies, all of the things one lives for are taken away, and only your good deeds succeed. He uses the characters to teach a moral. The main character in the play, …showed first 75 words of 681 total…

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