Tartuffe: Why You Can’t Trust Everyone Who Claims To Be Holy Tartuffe is a play filled with religious hypocrisy and the danger of trusting just anyone. The play centers around Orgon whose devout devotion to the supposed holy man Tartuffe almost cost him and his family everything. Orgon’s blind following of Tartuffe shows that he trust this virtual stranger more than he does his own family mainly because this man claims to be a man of God. The play also indicates that Orgon feels he is losing control of his own family and his devotion to Tartuffe is a way to regain it. In the opening of the play, Orgon’s family is discussing Tartuffe and all seem to be in agreement that he is not the man he claims to be. All that is with the exception of Orgon’s mother, Madame Pernelle, who believes her wayward family is in desperate need of the strict religious doctrines Tartuffe claims to bring. Madame Pernelle goes on to tell Orgon’s wife, Elmire that “Behavior such as yours leads straight to Hell. You spend money like it grows on trees.” (Lawall and Mack 145 line 28-29) Elmire isn’t the only one
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It’s a century old problem to have people claim to be holy and sent from God to swindle and use people who just want something to believe in. From Charles Manson who convinced men and women that he was Jesus and warped their minds with drugs to control them and use them to carry out his own devious plans. To Jim Jones whose doctrines convinced over 900 of his followers to commit the largest mass suicide know. It goes to show that we must guard ourselves against these false prophets. Orgon luckily saw the truth of who Tartuffe was in enough time to save his family and their riches with the help if the King. But his need to control his family and hold on to a man who gave him that power and something to believe in almost cost him everything
It’s a century old problem to have people claim to be holy and sent from God to swindle and use people who just want something to believe in. From Charles Manson who convinced men and women that he was Jesus and warped their minds with drugs to control them and use them to carry out his own devious plans. To Jim Jones whose doctrines convinced over 900 of his followers to commit the largest mass suicide know. It goes to show that we must guard ourselves against these false prophets. Orgon luckily saw the truth of who Tartuffe was in enough time to save his family and their riches with the help if the King. But his need to control his family and hold on to a man who gave him that power and something to believe in almost cost him everything