Linda Tran
Blaine
CPLT 325
22 July 2015
Dorine in Molière's Tartuffe
Dorine is a character in Molière’s Tartuffe that stands on the grounds of righteousness and loyalty. She is the shrewd and wise servant who sees through the pretense in the people around her. While she is the least person in terms of social status, she is the superior one in any wit contests that she inevitably finds herself in at her masters’ house. In this play, she is surrounded by the tyrannical and deluded Orgon, her housemaster, the hypocritical Tartuffe, the houseguest, and the ineffectual Mariane, Orgon’s daughter. The audience can relate to Dorine, the cunning, smart and action commentator, through her winning wholesomeness, directness and simple but brutal honesty. Dorine is in part a servant and partly a companion to Mariane whom she has developed fondness over. The account of her open and wise mannerism is not …show more content…
Dorine opens the act with a conversation that captures the audience’s attention with the kind of witty and practical sense of perspective. She knows that if there is to be any gossip about anything they must be from Daphne, the only person according to Dorine, who gossips about other people so as to feel good about her own self and life to hide her own flaws (Molière, 147). She tells Madame Pernelle that Daphne condemns people for the same vice she used to do, since those days she used to flirt around and attract a sizable following. She did not have a problem, but now that her beauty has faded she has a problem with those who are now getting the attention. In this act, Dorine is the source of most of the comedy, and the voice of sound and practical reasoning. She gets the best out of her superiors and does not waste a chance at sharing and giving a piece of her mind to anyone who cares to
Blaine
CPLT 325
22 July 2015
Dorine in Molière's Tartuffe
Dorine is a character in Molière’s Tartuffe that stands on the grounds of righteousness and loyalty. She is the shrewd and wise servant who sees through the pretense in the people around her. While she is the least person in terms of social status, she is the superior one in any wit contests that she inevitably finds herself in at her masters’ house. In this play, she is surrounded by the tyrannical and deluded Orgon, her housemaster, the hypocritical Tartuffe, the houseguest, and the ineffectual Mariane, Orgon’s daughter. The audience can relate to Dorine, the cunning, smart and action commentator, through her winning wholesomeness, directness and simple but brutal honesty. Dorine is in part a servant and partly a companion to Mariane whom she has developed fondness over. The account of her open and wise mannerism is not …show more content…
Dorine opens the act with a conversation that captures the audience’s attention with the kind of witty and practical sense of perspective. She knows that if there is to be any gossip about anything they must be from Daphne, the only person according to Dorine, who gossips about other people so as to feel good about her own self and life to hide her own flaws (Molière, 147). She tells Madame Pernelle that Daphne condemns people for the same vice she used to do, since those days she used to flirt around and attract a sizable following. She did not have a problem, but now that her beauty has faded she has a problem with those who are now getting the attention. In this act, Dorine is the source of most of the comedy, and the voice of sound and practical reasoning. She gets the best out of her superiors and does not waste a chance at sharing and giving a piece of her mind to anyone who cares to