Everymans suffering

The Stages of Grief

DENIAL is a refusal to accept facts, information, reality, etc., relating to the situation concerned. It's a defense mechanism and perfectly natural. ANGER can manifest in different ways. People dealing with emotional upset can be angry with themselves, and/or with others, especially those close to them. Traditionally the BARGAINING stage can involve attempting to bargain with whatever God the person believes in. People facing less serious trauma can bargain or seek to negotiate a compromise (e.g. "Can we still be friends?..") DEPRESSION is the dress rehearsal or the practice run for the 'aftermath'. It's natural to feel sadness and regret, fear, uncertainty, etc. It shows that the person has at least begun to accept the reality. ACCEPTANCE contains an indication that there is some emotional detachment and objectivity. People dying can enter this stage a long time before the people they leave behind. Sprinkles Scrubs Everyman 113-114
The quote on line states, " Full unready I am such reckoning to give. I know thee not. What messenger art thou." This shows Everyman's reluctance to accept that he has meet death.

DENIAL

On line 171, Everyman

becomes infuriated when he calls Death names as all angry do, when they express their discontent. He calls Death a "wretched caitliff".

ANGER

On lines 135-137, Everyman bargains by asking Death to give him more time because he will be good. He even tries to pay Death off with " a thousand pound shalt thou have" so he may "defer this matter till another day". (122-123)

BARGAINING

On line 172, Everyman

describes his sorrows with: "That I might 'scape this endless sorrow? "

DEPRESSION

On lines 197-199,
Everyman accepts his fate when he says "Methink, alas, that I must be gone To make my reckoning and my debts pay. For I see my time is nigh spent away".

ACCEPTANCE