This is a morality play by an anonymous author who has names his characters and sequences based on the traits, characteristics and personality human beings possess.
Step-by-step explanation:
In this amazingly interesting play, that talks about how human beings have become ignorant of the facts and reality that their sins, actions, hatred will come back to them eventually after a certain point of time.
In this play, there are certain words used which make us understand that the main, central character - 'Everyman' who is a person playing the role of all characteristics present in him, fears death and starts to give in to what ever he has done and trying to correct them.
His emotions once he finds out that death is approaching him soon, he starts to 'dread -fear'. He then gets 'fain - deserted by his friends'. He tries to open his book of 'reckon'. He is also described as tapster, timorous, unkind towards the end of the play.