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Teachers' Resource Web Study Questions on Everyman Al Drake, UCI, English 28B, 1994 1. What can be said about the play's "setting?" What is the importance of that setting? 2. How should we characterize the "journey" Everyman takes? Also, does the word "journay" (line 103) help the author make some further point about the trip to be undertaken? (Look up "jour" or "journee" in French.) 3. Put all the characters together and what do you get? What sort of whole is being described thereby? 4. Test your Hollywood savvy: whom would you cast in the role of each character? Who should play "Good Deeds," "Fellowship," and so on? 5. Can you come up with an hierarchy of Everyman's attributes (as embodied in several of the allegorical characters) after his main help "Good Deeds?" 6. Does this play present a view of human nature? How do you derive this view? 7. What sort of attitude towards man does God have in the play? 8. This play is in some ways rather simple; yet, if read with a bit of sympathy, it has no trouble holding the reader's attention. One might even say that it bears a considerable emotional charge. If you agree with this assessment, try to explain how the play generates such a response.
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