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    Tartuffe Summary

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    In Tartuffe‚ written by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere‚ a man named Tartuffe fools Orgon‚ the wealthy head of the household. Orgon takes in Tartuffe and treats him as if he was of blood relation and is blinded by the façade he puts on of being a good‚ moral‚ and righteous man. In reality‚ Tartuffe is a hypocrite and a self-righteous one at that. The only people who notice Tartuffe’s façade are everyone but Orgon and he will not listen to their complaints. As the play progresses Orgon keeps refusing

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    Did you know that the play Tartuffe was written to mock the hypocrisy of the church during the mid-1600? Tartuffe was scandalous back in the day‚ and there’s a reason why. It exposes the idea of religious hypocrisy. This issue was hard to tackle back then. For this‚ the play was censored by King Louis XIV‚ probably due to the influence of the archbishop of Paris‚ Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe‚ who was the King’s confessor and had been his tutor. Tartuffe‚ written by the French play

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    While Tartuffe is hilarious play that doesn’t seem to take itself seriously‚ there is various themes we can interpret through this play. Religion is one of most important theme and is the story’s main focus. In a sense‚ Moliere is trying to teach us the difference between a piety fraud and a true Christian through this comedic play. He sees the absurdity and danger of such religious hypocrisy. Throughout the play‚ Tartuffe uses religion as a tool and demonstrated how potent religion can be through

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    Tartuffe Gender Roles

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    In Tartuffe‚ Elmire character is resourceful and intelligent woman much like Dorine. Elmire is clearly shown to be mentally superior to her husband and becomes frustrated with him‚ of his gullibility concerning with Tartuffe‚ saying bluntly that" Orgons blindness take her breath away" (Moliere). When Orgon refuses to acknowledge that Tartuffe could possibly commit treacherous intentions‚ Elmire takes the initiative and convince her "hard headed" husband to hide while she manipulates Tartuffe into

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    play The Misanthrope is a comedy that represents social satire‚ satirizing the conventions of the society which Moliere lived in and observed. Perhaps the character of Alceste best demonstrates the elements of comedy and tragedy that co-exist in Moliere’s play. Alceste‚ after all‚ realizes his jealous nature makes him a comic figure. In fact‚ humankind’s tragedy as expressed by Moliere is that it cannot admit how funny‚ hypocritical‚ and ironic most of its actions and views are. Because of this‚

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    Candide summary

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    POT 3054 Research Paper Voltaire’s Candide Voltaire begins the climactic‚ satirical journey of Candide by first stating where he originates‚ the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh (Voltaire 1). This absurd name can be seen as Voltaire taking aim at the ridiculous names of lords‚ dukes‚ etc. he has come across. Not only is it an unnecessarily long name‚ but a humorous one to pronounce. The Baron is also said to have established an unreasonable seventy-one heraldic quarterings due to his family

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    Candide - Optimism

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    In CandideVoltaire sought to point out the flaws of Gottfried William von Leibniz’s theory of optimism and the hardships brought on by the inaction toward the evils of the world. Voltaire’s use of satire‚ and its techniques of exaggeration and contrast highlight the evil and brutality of war and the world in general when men are meekly accepting their fate. Leibniz‚ a German philosopher and mathematician of Voltaire’s time‚ developed the idea that the world they were living in at that time was

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    Candide

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    Candide Paper In this passage‚ Candide is first hand observing the suffering and abuse of a slave‚ while on his march with Cacambo to a Dutch town. The poor negro slave has lost his arm and leg by trying to escape the mistreatment from his master. Candide is sympathetic of this slave and does not understand how things could be well when everything appears to be like hell. Candide is beginning to question Panlgoss’s theory‚ “this is the best of all possible worlds‚” and his own optimism after observing

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    contrary to the 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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    attacked through irony‚ derision‚ or wit. Candide is a successful satire because it includes the main components of satire‚ and in writing it Voltaire intended to point out the folly in philosophical optimism and religion. Satire is designed to ridicule a usually serious idea. Because Voltaire was a deist he was more than comfortable deriding religion and philosophical optimism in his novella Candide. In contrast to the standard European of his day‚ Voltaire openly rejected the idea that a god‚ a creator

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