Absolute monarchs centralize their absolute power. Louis XIV and Peter the Great are exceptional examples of an absolute monarch. Louis ruled in France from 1638 – 1715 and Peter ruled in Russia, but he was not liked by many people. They both had all four characteristics of an absolute monarch. Louis centralized his power by keeping nobles busy with court life, he increased revenue by supporting the arts and literature and reformed taxation with the help of Jean Baptiste Colbert.
His satire comedy, dancing, docudrama, exaggeration, movements; he had perfected his crafts with years of experience. The poor theater he is on, fits his performance, because with his talent, he doesn’t need a lot of decorations and props, all
In high school, it is when he began to perform. He performed plays such as Moliere’s plays: The Miser, The Bourgeois Gentleman, and Tartuffe.
The Renaissance movement was the bridge because it was the beginning of individual thought, and appreciation of literature and the arts. People began to think for themselves, people started to come up with many great ideas, rebirth, and cultural expansion. In this time period with your enemies your suppose to be tough and with others be cool, and everyone needed to be good at writing, latin and greek, poetry, speaking and history. As it says in (Document 1). The ideas that have given civilization the drive to rise from a period where the fallow of social, cultural, economical regression.
When King Louis XII died in 1643, King Louis XIV was heir to the throne at just 5 years old. Prime minister Jules Mazarin had him participate in dance to keep him busy, as he was too young to have absolute power. His first ballet de cour was at 8 years old in 1651, and 10 years later, he assumed absolute power. That same year, he founded the Academie Royale de Danse, wanting to change it into a more professional form of art. Salmacida Spoila, also known as “Salmacian Spoils” or “Spoils of the Fount Salmacis,” is the last of the English court masques.
Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, wrote his comedy play in 1664. This was also a time when the Catholic Church had a strong impact on society. This comical play, Tartuffe, was an attack on both religion and hypocrisy. Molière wrote this play to show how easily religion could be used to disguise sin and also to show how hypocritical the Christians were during that period of time. When it was first performed in front of King Louis XIV, critics thought that it was offensive towards the Catholic Church and they banned any future performances until 1669.
The way that Moliere constructs the play symbolizes the overall lesson that he wants the audience to see. Moliere wants his audience to realize the importance of reasoning and thinking for yourself. He does this by incorporating our human nature with gullibility and religion. By incorporating these three aspects he allows his audience to question what they have so long believed: that a man of god is a man of good. By creating a character like Tartuffe who acts like a moral authority while doing immoral and unethical thing, Moliere showcases what he wants his audience to see.
The play Tartuffe is one of the most dramatic and comic creations by Moliere. The level of writing and acting was taken to the next level in the seventeenth century by Moliere and the play itself marked a famous place in literature due to what history was taking place with religion. The play has unexpected twists and turns, with hilarious, astonishing dramatic irony shown in Act three with Elmire and Tartuffe. Before the ending, the audience and/or readers are lead to believe the play may end in tragedy, but Moliere surprises everyone by a delightful and happy ending. Tartuffe demonstrates the flaws in human nature as we know it today.
While reading Tartuffe, I was constantly dumbfounded by the prevalence in the world today of Moliere’s, comedically portrayed, accusations regarding ignorance in arranged marriage, social class dynamics and religious hypocrisy. Moliere created the characters to the complete contrast to what society saw them as, which was intriguing and comedic. He also displayed the average practices, such as planned marriage, to be disgraceful and shameful. Lastly, but most prevalently, Moliere saturated the hypocrisy of religion by later in the story revealing the religious character’s deceitful and malign nature. In this essay, I will be using historic and literary theory to examine Moliere’s interesting views of such practices and the satire involved.
Jean- Baptiste Molière’s play “Tartuffe” is an unquestionably humorous comedy. The play defines the hypocritical acclaimed “Christians” we have in society. Daily, many people are blinded by admiration of religious figures who they believe are Gods disciples and can lead them to the gates of heaven. In “Tartuffe”, the author uses irony, satire, and tone to uncover a man follies of unreligious faith, the lust of women, money, and power.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Renaissance art Leonardo da Vinci was an inspiring Renaissance artist who is known for his most famous works including the “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper.” Da Vinci studied laws of science and nature, which educated him on including the fundamentals in his art as a painter, sculptor, and architect. (Da Vinci's early life and career helped produce well-liked art during the Renaissance. His work inspired many during the Renaissance with his prestigious artwork, making him a dominant artist during the Italian Renaissance due to being the first to believe the art was connected to science and nature.
Molière is a hugely influential playwright and he has far reaching impacts in the world of theatre. One of the shows he wrote, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, is just one example of shows in which he is trying to point out things that are wrong with the current world that he is living in. Overall, without Molière theatre would be quite different from what it is
One of Molière’s main objectives as playwright was to analyse and often criticise the society in which he lived in. Theatre, for Molière, was a vehicle which allowed him to provide a social commentary on issues of the time and to highlight the faults of society. For this reason, Molière’s use of comedy was highly satirical. The combination of dramatic and satirical comedy, not only emphasises the flaws of the world at the time, but also accentuates the shortcomings of human nature. In Molière’s case, comedy was not a mere device used for the entertainment of the audience, as it played an integral role in delivering the message that he wanted to convey in his plays.
Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He was both the fiction and non-fiction writer. He strictly believed that life is not something which should be taken seriously all the time and also that humans should always be ready to laugh at themselves. He even wrote about the theoretical and technical aspects of humour. He believed community and its organic growth and these themes can be found in his works.
He produced several plays and poems as well as masques. He
