How Does Tartuffe Receive His Name?

In Moliere's play Tartuffe, the main character's name is Tartuffe, which like the definition of his name is someone who is a hypocritical pretender to piety. Throughout the book we see many different sides of Tartuffe. We see him acting religious, angry, excited, and we see him acting as his true self. A pretender to piety. He is able to easily trick Orgon into disowning Damis his son and giving Tartuffe all of his foutune and land and tries to seduce Orgon's wife Elmire. At the end of the play, Orgon tries to kick Tartuffe out of the house, but since Tartuffe was able to take advantage of and trick Orgon, he now has total control over the property and attempt to kick Orgon and his family out. Luckily the King is able to see past Tartuffe's lies and hypocricy and returns the land back to Orgon. The author uses dialouge and actions between the characters to support his reason for giving Tartuffe his name in the play.

Tartuffe is said to be holy and deeply religious, but truly religious people to not brag or over exaggerate there love for god. Tartuffe over exaggerates his level of holiness and has always been deeply attracted to Elmire, but Orgon is blinded …show more content…
This backfires though and as soon as he tells Tartuffe to leave, Tartuffe immediatley refuses. Tartuffe says, “No, I’m the master,and you’re the one to go!/This house belongs to me, I’ll have you know,/And I shall show you that you can't hurt me/By this contemptible conspiracy,/That those who cross me know not what they do,/And that I’ve means to expose and punish you,/Avenge offended Heaven, and make you grieve/That ever you dared order me to leave(Moliere 131). Tartuffe speaks out to Orgon telling him that he now owns the property and that since he is supposidly very close to god and heaven, god will not be pleased by Orgon's actions and procced to punish him for his