Everyman

According to Elizabeth Luther Cary, Everyman was meant to be a morality play. "Fair words maketh fools fain". This is just one of the many quotes in Everyman that makes it a morality play. It has quotes that can be used as good life lessons. It shows you that strength, beauty, goods, fellowship, and your five wits will only help you in the journey of life, but they cannot help you in the afterlife. It shows that you can't always depend on others, but more or less you should depend on your own knowledge.

Everyman is a great story made to dictate morality. "For no man that is living today, I will not go that loath journey." It shows how a friend can say they will stay by your side but when things get tough they abandon you. It also shows that a person's only way out of problems is by relying on them self. "Everyman's hold on the audience is gained and kept by the truly inspiring and noble art with which his representative character is maintained."(Elizabeth Luther Cary)

Everyman uses religion, and most religions teach morality. "It is a very perfect example of the English morality as it existed before theological controversy, intellectual progress, or realism broke in upon the purely orthodox religious drama designed primarily to inculcate reverence of the church."(Elizabeth Luther Cary) Everyman was written to make the people want to follow religion, and the church. It makes people believe that they cannot depend on anything to help them through life but their faith.