Everyman

Medieval allegorical drama

Everyman is a fifteenth-century English morality play in which the title character, representing all humanity, is summoned by Death and discovers that worldly companions—Fellowship, Goods, Beauty—abandon him, while only Good Deeds accompanies him to judgment.

The play's name has become shorthand for allegorical works featuring representative human figures. (Lowercase everyman means an ordinary person.)

allegory

morality play

Drama teaching ethical lessons

death · judgement · fellowship · confession · penance · sin · virtue · vice · heaven · hell

archetype

universal

Affecting all equally

generic · quintessential · emblematic · symbolic · prototypical · epitome · exemplar · paradigm · pilgrim

Categories
Opposites
ordinariness

Everymansuperman

Extraordinary achiever

genius · prodigy · übermensch · one in a million · virtuoso

representativeness

Everymanone-of-a-kind

Having no equivalent

sui generis · individualist · maverick · eccentric · original

social status

Everymanelite

Superior select group

aristocrat · royalty · nobleman · patrician · blueblood

Family

everymen

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