Furthermore, both plays kind of fits into the concept of comedy. It’s the classic scenario of a comedy where the villain is carried off to jail, the lovers get married and justice is served. However, there is no renewal in society because the blocking force itself is not renewed. In “Tartuffe”, Orgon is the blocking force who separates Mariane and Valère from being together.
He says “Yes, Tartuffe shall be/Allied by marriage to this family/And he’s to be your husband is that clear? /It’s a father’s privilege (Molière Act 2, Scene 1, 28-31). Orgon has such a dominant and rash personality that he is so easily taken by Tartuffe’s actions that he does not seem to figure out Tartuffe’s true personality. Orgon exclaims “Just think of it: behind that fervent face/A …show more content…
/I took him in, a hungry beggar, and then…/ Enough, by God! I’m through with pious men/ Henceforth I’ll hate the whole false brotherhood. /And persecute them worse than Satan could (Molière Act 4, Scene 1, 29-34). Orgon learns Tartuffe is an imposter but he does not become a changed person, he remains the same. Orgon shows in this quote what led him to like Tartuffe. Yet, he decides that all religious men are imposters. In fact, Molière doesn’t simply revolve around the fact that his play attacks religion but mostly what is considered true. In “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Lady Bracknell is the blocking force of both potential marriages. She has a habit of getting in the way or acting as a blocking force at the least convenient times. When Jack states that he lost both his parents, Lady Bracknell refers to his parents as things: “Both? To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune — to lose both seems like carelessness” (Wilde 108). Also, her refusal to let Gwendolen “marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel?” is Lady Bracknell’s way of saying that she does not want her daughter to marry someone from the lower class. In act three, Lady Bracknell argues with Jack about
He says “Yes, Tartuffe shall be/Allied by marriage to this family/And he’s to be your husband is that clear? /It’s a father’s privilege (Molière Act 2, Scene 1, 28-31). Orgon has such a dominant and rash personality that he is so easily taken by Tartuffe’s actions that he does not seem to figure out Tartuffe’s true personality. Orgon exclaims “Just think of it: behind that fervent face/A …show more content…
/I took him in, a hungry beggar, and then…/ Enough, by God! I’m through with pious men/ Henceforth I’ll hate the whole false brotherhood. /And persecute them worse than Satan could (Molière Act 4, Scene 1, 29-34). Orgon learns Tartuffe is an imposter but he does not become a changed person, he remains the same. Orgon shows in this quote what led him to like Tartuffe. Yet, he decides that all religious men are imposters. In fact, Molière doesn’t simply revolve around the fact that his play attacks religion but mostly what is considered true. In “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Lady Bracknell is the blocking force of both potential marriages. She has a habit of getting in the way or acting as a blocking force at the least convenient times. When Jack states that he lost both his parents, Lady Bracknell refers to his parents as things: “Both? To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune — to lose both seems like carelessness” (Wilde 108). Also, her refusal to let Gwendolen “marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel?” is Lady Bracknell’s way of saying that she does not want her daughter to marry someone from the lower class. In act three, Lady Bracknell argues with Jack about