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    Hypocrisy Argument

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    1.When writing an essay about hypocrisy the target audience would be those whom does not stand firm behind their word. Plus people who have similar qualities but belittles the next person for the same things that is done on their account as well. This essay might argue that those whom do the similar act of someone is unethical to hyposize another for doing the same.In the other essay about contrast liences and freedom the target audience would be those who are not in unionson with freedoms of different

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    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 and to a great

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    Nietzsche On Hypocrisy

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    Nietzsche believed that to be moralistic is to be hypocritical. The textbook defines moralistic as‚ “Expressing commonplace moral sentiments that conflict with one’s behavior and equating moral sentimentality with virtuous living; a form of hypocrisy that resembles a reaction formation‚” (Soccio 16-5). Basically what Nietzsche was saying is that what our culture believes is morally right is not what people actually want. “In Nietzsche’s view‚ modernity is anti-life and anti-nature‚ and modern‚ Christianized

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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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    The Hypocrisy of Diversity

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    ’Diversity’. It’s everywhere you look these days. When you switch on your TV set‚ you open up a newspaper‚ or you just look out your window - it’s there. It seems everybody has a lot to say about diversity‚ but what does it mean‚ what does it really mean? And what does the future hold for a racially ’diverse’ America? Well.. let’s look at the fine people who are pushing for the ’diversity’ line. Who’s opening the borders to hordes of illegal aliens in order to ’diversify’ the racial makeup of

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    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

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    Media hypocrisy

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    IDS 301 Media Culture Jolita V Reaction paper 12 October‚ 2012 Media hypocrisy There is no doubt that the media is the primary source of information that in fact nowadays overloads the average person with various data on a daily basis .The media has been always a tool of spreading the news‚ no matter good or bad‚ in the shortest possible time to the general public. Even nowadays with the revolutionary development and expansion of the technology the media has become extremely influential

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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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    desire to see Tartuffe suffer for his betrayal. We are reintroduced to the differences of a fraud and a true Christian. Cleante interrupted Orgon and said that he should not hope revenge against Tartuffe but‚ rather hope that Tartuffe repents for his sins and a light sentence by the King. Family and loyalty is another theme that is commonly recurring in the play. In the beginning of the play‚ Orgon falls further and further into Tartuffe’s trap and the whole household suffer from this. This makes

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