Everyman, a medieval morality play of some 900 lines, portrays a complacent Everyman who is informed by Death of his approaching end.
The play shows the hero's progression from despair and fear of death to a "Christian resignation that is the prelude to redemption."
First, Everyman is deserted by his false friends: his casual companions, his kin, and his wealth.
He falls back on his Good Deeds, his Strength, his Beauty, his Intelligence, and his Knowledge.
These assist him in making his Book of Accounts, but at the end, when he must go to the grave, all desert him save his Good Deeds alone.
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