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Madame Pernelle and Orgon trust in Tartuffe because he looks like the ideal priest. The appearance of institutional religion and its works revolved around Moliere
Throughout the novel Moliere demands rationality from the audience as Tartuffe, the novel’s religious figurehead, deceives Orgon. Moliere represents 17th century French aristocracy through the character Tartuffe, who uses religious acts in order to disguise himself as a saint. Moliere does not believe this to be true piety in that true devotees, according to Moliere, do not need outward demonstrations. Moliere disagrees with several aspects including structure. Elmire -- a women-- is the only one who effectively found a way to awaken Orgon.
As well as, this recognition of Tartuffe's false nature reveals the severity of Orgon’s arrogance. Moliere highlights within the second half of the play, the extremes of pride and how mankind struggles to face it. The theme of pride is accentuated by Orgon’s nature, especially, during
The role that King Louis XIV plays in Tartuffe, although not a character himself, affects the whole outcome of the play. King Louis XIV was an absolute monarch and was responsible for restoring order in society. The age of reason, 1660-1805, was a time to restore order while finding humor in those who stray away from order. King Louis was responsible for ensuring the safety and order of the country, and we come to learn that his power spreads much further than suspected. By divine right and being an offstage presence, King Louis XIV has the ability to control and assist everyone, whether it is warranted or not.
Since the government controls what happens to the city, people need something to make them happy. Tartuffe also teaches a lesson that things will come back to “bite” you. Tartuffe is a lying fool who thinks he can get away with anything, but once all the other characters found
In this play, Tartuffe is explained and described as a religious hypocrite or a “poor man” as stated several times in the fifth scene of act one. Tartuffe being the main character in the entirety of this excerpt, he is a man that is valued and favored by many. Tartuffe is discussed by Orgon, the husband of Elmire, he admires Tartuffe to the point of him being a religious factor in the lives of the people not only in the church, but at home as well. Orgon sees a man who has been ridiculed by many people but does not accept the fact that he is one of the few that highly favors him. “You just don’t see him in the way I do.”
Moliere allows Tartuffe to live in a lie for the idea of religion and heart of civilized existence. “Religion is the most solemn name of the truth men live by, in an age when that truth is not merely acknowledged...” (35) because every man wants to be seen religious to the public’s eye to keep their secret reputation a secret. The real question is how far would Tartuffe go to keep his past in the past and reputation a closed book? The answer is Tartuffe cannot even save himself from his destructive behavior or stop himself from making the same mistakes over and
Throughout Molière’s ‘Tartuffe” the true intentions of multiple characters are consistently questioned. Different characters involve themselves in self-made delusions for specific reasons, causing the label of ‘hypocrite’ to become a significantly used word. This use of the word ‘hypocrite’ throws everything off balance, forcing the audience to question every statement/event deciding whether or not they are truly sincere. Moliere’s use of hypocrisy when describing Tartuffe brings immediate awareness to the text involving central theme of reason verses emotion, deciding whether or not a characters actions were based on their pure heart or their greed.
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.
This can lead to extremism, which some might label as false piety or religious fanaticism. Looking at how these ideas might come into play can help us to better understand where Tartuffe and Orgon stood throughout the story, and to decipher what Molière was truly trying to project in this story of hypocrisy. Piety is defined as “devotion to God; fidelity to natural obligations; dutifulness
In the YouTube video, “An Evening with Gloria Steinem,” which took place at Brookdale Community College in 2011, Gloria Steinem spoke about civil and human rights throughout the world, but mostly focusing on feminism and women’s rights as it related to the culture and history of Americans. Steinem did not really furnish a timetable for development of feminism in America; she vastly highlighted topical issues relating to women’s rights and humanities. She expressed how “legal identity” was the “first wave” of feminism lasting 100 years and, the “second wave” is currently happening for about some 50 years now in terms of gender and people achieving “legal social equality” status in which she believes the American society is heading. Steinem
The enlightenment thinkers believed that each person should think for themselves and not believe everything based on religious beliefs. The citizens started to bring into the light the abuse of the clergy. This is evident in Tartuffe. The power of deception is seen throughout the play. Deception is not always bad.
He is a religious hypocrite who makes his way into Orgon’s world and then betrays him. Tartuffe is the focus of everyone’s conversation. It is very obvious at the beginning of the play, that Tartuffe has convinced Madame Pernelle and Orgon that he is a religious, holy, faithful, and humble man. We see the irony when Tartuffe and Elmire are alone and he tries to seduce her. It is evident to the reader and audience.
“William Shakespeare’s Impact on Theater” says that “Theater, in particular, has experienced many changes due to his influence,” and without any major influence like Shakespeare to guide the changes of theater, it would be extremely different (Octane 1). Shakespeare introduced many new elements to theater because of how his writing was unique in his time period. Despite this, his writing appealed to many different audiences. For instance, Octane says that “The way in which Shakespeare’s plots move forward has helped define modern play-writing. Similarly, Shakespeare’s complex characterizations have brought forth a new type of storytelling in which characters’ choices drive plots forward” and “His plays were often imbued with universal truths of human existence, rather than acting as mirrors of the privileged life.
Orgon is blinded by his admiration of Tartuffe. Without Orgon seeing for himself, he would never believe that Tartuffe could have deceived him. Moliere makes Tartuffe betrays others by his remarkable gestures of humiliation and aid. Moliere uses satire to emphasize the truth about Tartuffe’s lust for Elmire.
