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  • An Essay about the Quest for Death in the Morality Play "Every Man"

     

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Published: 31.05.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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The Quest For Death
The medieval fascination regarding the Quest for Death is evident in morality plays. The typical morality play is a 'psychomachia, an externalized dramatization of a psychological and spiritual conflict: the battle between the forces of good and evil in salvation, despite the obstacles and temptations that he encounters as he travels through life, toward death' (Blue 2). The moralities dramatized the progress experienced by Christians as they moved through life, towards death. Beginning at birth with innocence, moving into sin, and before death, repetance and then salvation. In morality plays 'the forces of Evil (the Seven Deadly Sins, the World, the Flesh, the Devil, Vice) are arrayed against the Christian, who turns for help to the forces of Good (God, His Angels, Virtue)' (Blue 3). …

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