Rituals in Everyman and Endgame :: Comparison

Comparing Rituals in Everyman and Endgame Why do you do that?Do what?Make the symbol of the cross--you must be Catholic--I see them doing that all of the time. I was eager to know what my friends response would be.Yeah, she replied, I am. Its holy, respect for Jesus and Mary. sometimes we have to do it as penance after confession.Inquisitively I asked, I dont get it. So you perform this ritual for different reasons? What are you trying to accomplish when you do it, get into Heaven or in effect(p) avoid going to Hell? Or could it be that its just to do the same thing Catholics have always through with(p)?Rituals, no depicted object how major or minor they seem, can be found almost everywhere. some(prenominal) are of a religious context, and some are non. Some are performed for specific reasons, and some are performed simply to avoid change. The bearing of rituals and their importance are very evident in the plays Everyman, written by an anonymous writer, and Endgame, written by Samuel Beckett. Everyman tries to typeset for death and attain his last-ditch determination of gaining entrance into heaven by changing his life done the ritualized acts of scourging himself and performing the heptad blessed sacraments. In Endgame, Clov ritualistically looks out of the window to perk up sure that nothing has changed and that death, or anything else that may disrupt the characters repetitive cycle per second of life, is not on the horizon. Hamm also resists change and attempts to avoid death by having Clov continually make sure that his chair is in the proper localization so that death cannot find him in the wrong place and knock off up on him. The rituals are very different, and the major contrast amidst those performed is that Everyman realizes that the coming of death is inevitable and he wants to do whatever obligatory to prepare for it, but the characters in Endgame fear death, and rather than prepare for it, try to avoid it by resisting any change t o their daily routines.Everyman does not resist death and even prepares for it by performing the religious rituals of the seven blessed sacraments and scourging himself. Through the performance of rituals Everyman is trying to attain the ultimate goal of reaching Heaven. He finds that the only character that will accompany him on his journey is Good Deeds, but she is weak. This represents the idea that he has not done enough good during his life and must now do something to change.