Moliere's Use Of Satire In Tartuffe

In 1664, Molière wrote a satire piece of literature, Tartuffe, that riled up a great deal of critics especially from making a mockery of the Church which during this time had a supreme expanse of power. Molière dances around the question of where has religion gone in the age of science? For if you are a rational man, then you will question the world around you because in order to change the past you must challenge it. If you don’t question it, then you will live in a repeated cycle of injustice and tradition. Justice is shown to be stronger since it consists of wisdom and virtue, whereas injustice portrays ignorance and absurdity. In the play a hypocritical unlawful man disguises himself as a manipulative holy man in order to meet his ends
In the lower levels we find the levels of what makes you a proper human: practical and productive reasoning, emotions, and capability to reason and think. Similarly, there is a hierarchy within the a family itself, where the husband has all the power. Given these points, there is a parallel system within the church and social classes. Morality is guided by practical reasoning which gives any sane individual the resources to contemplate certain ideas that may seem unacceptable or humanly unfair. But what happens to everyone in the house beneath Orgon, upper class member and husband, if he is acting irrational since he is absurd with his blind faith. He starts to design a world with three forms of unnatural, illogical powers: economic, sexual, and spiritual. This does not reflect well to the community in a economical and spiritual standpoint, especially towards the church, because it seems ludicrous for a well-respected noble man be made a fool of by someone below his status. Therefore, Orgon looks to be weak in character when he refuses to raise the stakes in a single principle of action which is to use reason. Instead, Orgon shows clear acts of constant threats to rationality which questions his economic standing in his own