Which line in these excerpts from the play Everyman implies that the common people of the time were leading a life dedicated to material gain and pleasure-seeking activities? Of ghostly sight the people be so blind, Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God. In worldly riches is all their mind: They fear not my righteousness, the sharp rod; ... Out of God's laws, and dreadeth not folly. He that loveth riches I will strike with my dart, His sight to blind, and from heaven to depart, Except that Almsdeeds be his good friend, ... For before God thou shalt answer and show Thy many bad deeds and good but a few - - How thou hast spent thy life and in what wise, NextReset

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Clay Massey

4 September, 22:22

Which line in these excerpts from the play Everyman implies that the common people of the time were leading a life dedicated to material gain and pleasure-seeking activities? Of ghostly sight the people be so blind, Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God. In worldly riches is all their mind: They fear not my righteousness, the sharp rod; ... Out of God's laws, and dreadeth not folly. He that loveth riches I will strike with my dart, His sight to blind, and from heaven to depart, Except that Almsdeeds be his good friend, ... For before God thou shalt answer and show Thy many bad deeds and good but a few - - How thou hast spent thy life and in what wise, NextReset

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Lucy Dawson · Answer 1

The correct answer is the line that says "In worldly riches is all their mind: They fear not my righteousness, the sharp rod" because "worldly riches" refers to material gain. Instead of worrying about their duties to God and what they would experience after death, they are more concerned with filling their lives with material, earthly pleasures.