Question

Beauty. Here at your will we be all ready.
What will ye that we should do?

Good-Deeds. That ye would with Everyman go,
And help him in his pilgrimage,
Advise you, will ye with him or not in that voyage?

Strength. We will bring him all thither,
To his help and comfort, ye may believe me.

Discretion. So will we go with him all together.

–Everyman,
Anonymous

What concepts or ideas do characters in this passage represent?

readiness, advice, comfort, and belief
pilgrimages, voyages, and journeys
beauty, good deeds, strength, and discretion
help, comfort, togetherness, and beauty

Answer 1

beauty, good deeds, strength, and discretion — they are allegorical personifications of those moral qualities.