Death and Angel forced Everyman into their sacred arms throughout his journey. However, Everyman faced several demonic characters throughout the play, all of whom he at one time called his friend. These “friends” showed Everyman who they really were in his time of greatest need. The projections of the demonic in Everyman are taking on the familiar form of his “friends” within the morality play. Along with dealing with the sacred Death and Angel, Everyman had to also encounter demonic characters as all do throughout their lives, portraying performing objects. Thus, making him more relatable to the audience members viewing the morality play. The dramaturge personifies the characters as performing objects throughout the play. The dramaturge portrays the…show more content… (Everyman 360-64)
Kindred portrays lechery here with offering his maid who is there to be “nice”, as more than a companion to Everyman on his journey. Audience members can assume that by Kindred having a maid, that the maid was giving into the lecherous desires of Kindred and preforming sexual favors for him.
In the beginning of the play Everyman believes that he can persuade Death into not taking him at that time, as he was not ready to go, buy trying to buy time with material goods. However, Everyman soon learns that it is his day of reckoning and that he cannot outrun Death. Everyman plays into the idea of performative structure as a character in which he represents Avarice. He offers God “…a thousand pound…” (122). The idea of Everyman showing aspects of avarice by offering material objects to Death to gain more time portrays to the communitas that Everyman is representative of Avarice by showing his own extreme greed for personal gain. Van Laan in his 1963 essay entitled, "Everyman: A Structural Analysis”
