What attribute do morality play characters primarily exhibit to convey moral lessons?

• A. They presented everyday life scenes.
• B. They personified abstract concepts.
• C. They used elaborate stage machinery.
• D. They were based on myths.

Answer: (B)

Morality plays teach by giving form to intangible ideas. The characters are not ordinary people but embodiments of virtues and vices—Good Deeds, Knowledge, Pride, Greed, Death, and so on—so the audience can clearly see how these abstract qualities influence a soul’s choices and fate. This personification makes the moral struggle concrete and memorable, turning ethics into dramatized action rather than just everyday life scenes, complex machinery on stage, or mythic storytelling.