Everyman 514-516 [11/21/2011]

Today I read pages 514-516 of Everyman. The play starts with on character on the stage. This character is The Messenger. The Messenger begins by explaining what Everyman is about. "You think sin in the beginning full sweet, Which in the end causeth the soul to weep,-" The Messenger continues with, "Here shall you see how fellowship and jollity, both strength, pleasure, and beauty, will fade from thee as flower in May." I feel like The Messenger made the story sound very interesting and makes the reader want to continue reading. The Messenger exits as God enters. God talks a lot about how he is really upset that after everything he did for mankind, mankind is being selfish and greedy. God said, "Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God." "My law that I showed when I for them died they forget clean, and shedding of my blood red." "To get them life I suffered to be dead." "Everyman liveth so after his own pleasure, and yet of their life they be nothing sure. I see the more that I them forbear, the worse they be from year to year." As god finishes the end of his long monologue, he begins to talk about showing mankind a lesson. God says, "I must do justice on every man living without fear. Where art thou, Death, though mighty messenger?" I finished off reading at the point where Death had just told god that he will go and teach mankind a lesson in God's name.

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