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    them altogether." The playwright attempts to educate the world regarding this theme in his play Tartuffe. Each character in Tartuffe reveals a facet of immoderation that Molière wished to discourage. Perhaps the most obvious example of immoderation in the play is Tartuffe himself. This antagonist is a crafty religious fraud who eventually convinces Orgon to turn over everything that he owns to Tartuffe. In addition to greed‚ gluttony and lust manifest themselves in Tartuffe’s actions‚ from eating

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    Tartuffe Reaction Paper Tartuffe shows just how a person can be deceived or plotted against. We all tend to adapt to friends or take people in without knowing the true characters of that person. It pays to analyze and get to know a person before giving all of your trust and belief in them. Most of the plays we have read always give life lessons. This play teaches readers to not put your trust in everyone. Get to know a person better and understand what they are about before you call them a friend

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    Critical Analysis of Saur’s Interpretation of "Tartuffe" Pamela S. Saur’s article “Moilere’s Tartuffe” provides us with a well-built synopsis of Moliere’s character Cleante. In the play‚ Cleante is a very smart man: he’s observant‚ educated‚ and intelligent. Despite all of this‚ Saur argues of Cleante‚ saying “If the play were merely ’a struggle between Tartuffe and Cleante‚’ that the ending would be different. The victory would go to Tartuffe” (Saur 10). Saur is missing the entire point of Molière’s

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    Moliere’s “Tartuffe” Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere was one of the greatest writers of the seventeenth century‚ being considered by many the greatest author of French comedy. In his plays‚ called “comedies of manners”‚ Moliere satirizes the morals and social conventions of his contemporaneous human society by using stock characters. In Tartuffe‚ a comedy of five acts‚ the main topic is the analysis of religious hypocrisy and leader figures of the seventeenth century‚ portraying Tartuffe in contrast

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    Kristen Shema  Mrs. Pulsfort  Western Literature Honors  28 April 2015  Religious Hypocrisy versus Honesty  Authors often incorporate their political and philosophical views in their works. ​ Tartuffe​ ‚  a play by Molière‚ and ​ Candide​ ‚ a novella by Voltaire‚ deal with religion in society. ​ Tartuffe ​ is a  satire about the French upper class’ attitude toward religion. Molière finds fault with extreme  zealots and hypocrisy in religious people‚ and favors moderate beliefs. Voltaire’s ​ Candide​

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    indiscriminate acceptance of ideas that individuals had done for so long. In order to demonstrate this‚ Moliere wrote the play of Tartuffe in which a clear contrast is made between the emotional

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    surrounding the period in which Tartuffe was written in‚ the 17th Century is remembered as being a time of extreme power for the French Monarchy. King Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu transformed France’s feudal monarchy to an absolute monarchy. What must also be noted about this time is the fact that the Catholic Church and Politicians had a great deal of power over authors and playwrights. In this time of social and religious persecution‚ Molière created Tartuffe ‚ a comedy dealing with hypocrisy

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    Reality Vs. Illusion It is human nature for every person to have a vision of a perfect world and a perfect life. This imaginary world is exactly what Blanche DuBois has created for herself in A Streetcar Named Desire. In this story by Tennessee Williams the theme of reality vs. illusion plays a very vital role on the story and its characters. The fact that Blanche is so far wrapped in the illusion of what her world is has played a big role in misconstruing the reality of what her life has

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    Moliere’s play Tartuffe is well known as a critique of religion during the 17th century‚ but what some people fail to recognize is that it was also written to challenge the roles of women in society. In the 17th century women were viewed much differently in society than they are now. Women could not hold important jobs throughout the community and were typically found taking care of the household duties. They were expected to be submissive to their spouses and to all men in society. They could

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    “A Reflection of Psychology in Tartuffe” In Moliere’s play‚ Tartuffe‚ the audience is exposed to a rich variety of characters that cause them to ask many questions throughout the play. However‚ there is one character that seems to stick out the most. In Tartuffe‚ the audience cannot help but focus on Orgon’s actions and dialogue. For some‚ he could be seen as being manipulative. For others‚ he appears senseless and absurd‚ or even obsessive. It is not unusual for audience members to have different

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