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Scene 3 Scene 2
1,412 wordsTartuffe, an odious hypocrite posing as a member of the clergy has ingratiated himself with the credulous Orgon and his mother Mme. Pernelle. He is taken into Orgon's home. Both Orgon and his mother believe that Tartuffe's pious example will be good for the other members of the family. But everyone else in the family, including even the outspoken servant Dorine, is perceptive enough to see through the impostor. Despite the protestations of his sensible brother-in-law Cleante and his son Damis, O...
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Act Iv Scene Act I Scene
1,642 wordsAlthough Moliere's Don Juan was written in 1665, its central themes can be carried over through the ages up to today. Moliere creates many fascinating characters limited not only to Don Juan, but his servant, wife, father, and others he encounters throughout the play. In Don Juan, Moliere creates a character who shapes the world to fit his own personal illusions by an egotistical abuse of power. Even greater, is Moliere's ability to create characters who can interact with such a main character, ...
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Discernment Between Religion Deceived By Tartuffe Orgon
517 wordsTrue identity is often masked by the personality one wants to portray. This is especially true of Tartuffe, a character in Moliere's controversial comedy, Tartuffe (1664). In the five-act play, Moliere uses the characters to convey the idea of discernment between religion and false piety. The setting of the play is in Orgon's house. Orgon is a man who leads a life of wealth and happiness. His family consist of Elmire, his wife, daughter Marine, and son Damis. Also presiding in the house are Mada...
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Religious Leaders Orgon Property Tartuffe
1,053 wordsMoliere (whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) rocked the 17 th century French world with his comedy "Tartuffe" in 1664. Although, religious factions kept the play banned from theatres from 1664 - 1669, "Tartuffe" emerged from the controversy as one of the all-time great comedies. Tartuffe is a convincing religious hypocrite. He is a parasite who is sucking Orgon, the rich trusting father, for all he is worth. Orgon does not realize that Tartuffe is a phony, and caters to his every whim. F...
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Church For The Rest Play Tartuffe Moliere
1,014 words... he had the support of Louis XIV. Despite the support of the king, the play was banned. This is testimony to just how much power the religious officials had. The French had been deeply split over matters of religion in the years preceeding the play. This had led to a war between the Catholics and Protestants. Religious groups sided with various noblemen who were struggling for power. This became known as the Battle of the "Fronde's." After this war concluded, there emerged a belief that the m...
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One Day From Jean Baptist Part 1
1,577 wordsOne Day from Jean Baptist Moliere's Life Imagine you could travel in time. Which epoch would you choose? Where would you go? Perhaps most of historians have such dreams. However, until the machine for traveling in time is not built, we have to use our imagination and those fractions of facts left to us by time. The 17 -th century has some more interest for me than all other epochs. It was the century of the theaters flourishing. The Golden Age of the theater was coming. France was living through...
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Burry My Husband Church Of Saint Eustachian Moliere
1,576 words... the theater. Baron who was not occupied in the play came to see Moliere when he was changing his clothes. You felt bad on the stage? asked Baron. How did the audience receive the play? answered Moliere. Very well. But you look ill, master. I look great but somehow I felt cold for a moment said Moliere. And he started chattering with his teeth. Baron looked intently at Moliere and then turned pale and fussed. He opened the door of the actors dressing room and cried: Hey, is anybody there? Tel...
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The Fates Of Young Women
1,648 wordsThe fates of young women Jocasta's destiny is really cruel in play Oedipus. Jocasta is an integral part of the play, Oedipus the King, by Sophocles. Her actions and thoughts are important to the reader as well as the characters within the play. In this passage there are several themes and significant items that she is addressing. Jocasta is trying to help relieve Oedipus of his fears that come from the oracles. Jocasta states at the beginning of her speech to Oedipus (977 - 984), that since chan...
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Inhumanities Of Man Candide Meets Tartuffe
1,307 wordsSatire and Comedy in Boccaccio, Moliere and Voltaire The novel Candide by Voltaire is a great piece of literary satire that makes fun of the way people in medieval times thought. The book is about a man, Candide, and his misfortunes. Throughout the book, Candide has countless things go wrong to show that this is not the best of all possible worlds. In Candide, Voltaire tries to stress a point through the exaggeration of the inhumanities of man in a humorous way. The story begins in a castle in W...
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Imaginary Invalid French Neoclassicism Moliere
536 wordsThe French Neoclassicism FRENCH NEOCLASSICISM The 17 th century in France, the age of the sun-king LOUIS XIV, witnessed the rise of the neoclassical ideal and, with it, Frances three greatest masters of the drama: Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. Following the decline of religious drama in the mid- 16 th century, the French theater had been slow to develop. The French Renaissance began in 1630 and ended in 1700. It was Pierre Corneille's enormously popular tragedy Le Cid (1636) and the controvers...
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Trials And Tribulations State Of Mind
1,712 wordsEssay 1 02 / 08 / 99 Page 01 Two popular writing techniques used by many of the enlightenment's great were irony and humor. Great writers such as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere and Francois-Marie About De Voltaire made excellent use of these techniques. With humor, both writers wrote stories which kept their audience involved in funny situations, while with irony the writers were able to explain their underlying messages. Born seventy-two years apart, they are a superb example of how these techn...
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End Of The Play Driving Force
827 wordsHuman Flaws of Orgon In Tartuffe The play Tartuffe, by Moliere, is a work that was created to show People a flaw, in their own human nature. There are two characters who portray, the Main flaw, presented in the play. Both Madame Pernelle and Orgon are blinded by The farces of Tartuffe and must be coaxed into believing the truth. The fact That Orgon and Madame Pernelle are too weak to see the truth is the main driving Force throughout the play. The most obvious weakness shared between Orgon and M...
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One Of The Greatest Greatly Influenced
522 wordsJean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere was born in 1622 in Paris. Later in life, Moliere graduated with a law degree but then the twenty-one year old Jean Baptiste got caught up in the theatre. His acting company toured for fifteen years through the provinces where Moliere was exposed, and greatly influenced by, the Italian Commedia. In the course of his fifty-one years, Moliere wrote some thirty-two plays been assimilated into every form of comic drama that we know, be it the simple character sketch...
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Rise To Power Cardinal Richelieu
2,061 wordsMoliere (whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) rocked the 17 th century French world with his comedy Tartuffe in 1664. Although, religious factions kept the play banned from theatres from 1664 - 1669, Tartuffe emerged from the controversy as one of the all-time great comedies. Tartuffe is a convincing religious hypocrite. He is a parasite who is sucking Orgon, the rich trusting father, for all he is worth. Orgon does not realize that Tartuffe is a phony, and caters to his every whim. For i...
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