Discuss how the story of Everyman relates to the real human lives and beliefs of the people living on Earth.

That the play is about death is foregrounded when, early in the play, a personified Death appears at God's summons. Death's role is to bring people to judgment. Though the play doesn't particularly explore our emotional response to Death, it is important to note that Everyman's pilgrimage is to the grave - and that the whole play is a consideration of what man must do before death. "Everyman" must die, it is the one thing we are guarateed at the moment of our birth, and we must each move toward death as it comes for us. Life itself is a journey.