Humanity, one of the medieval morality plays, is a play that contrasts the ideas of good and evil. Throughout the play, a recurring idea is the conflict between Mercy, the character who represents "good" and Mischief, the character who represents the idea of ​​"evil." The conflict between good and evil is created to serve one purpose: to influence humanity. Mercy directs humanity to focus on God's judgment so that humanity can spend eternal life in heaven. On the other hand, the three evil vices, Today, Nought, and Newguise, want humanity to focus on earthly possessions and feelings rather than God's judgment. The overall theme of humanity is corruption, the rise and fall of humanity due to the influences of good and evil. Although the overall theme and tone of humanity has a religious tone, the author of the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge offers six objections to the ideas and themes of the miracle game. In the first objection, the author states that plays are not performed to worship God. Plays are created to create earthly pleasures for people. Plays make people laugh, bring them joy, and distract them from God. The second objection states that gambling is considered sinful because it corrupts an entire community. The plays force the entire audience to focus on the vanities of life rather than faith or charity. Tretise's third objection is that people do not cry while watching the play because of the compassion and devotion they have toward Christ. Rather, audience members cry because of their personal vanity and not their own sins. Tretise states that men will not abandon sin to worship and will not convert to a more religious way of life after seeing the play. The fifth objection implied by the...... middle of paper ...... in the power of temptation. The entertainment of the play hides the lessons described in the play. One aspect of the play, which may interest the audience, is the crude song and actions performed by Nowadays, Nought and Newguise. The three characters, who represent the temptation of sin, sing "It's written with a coal, it's written cetera/He who shits with his hole, cetera./But he wipes his arese but he cetera/On his breech that will have to be seen on its cetera” (336,338,340,342). temptation Lewd actions and jokes serve as the play's defense Even if the play gives in to lustful bodily pleasure, the audience will ultimately take with it the message that lustful actions seem wrong...