Molière

Moliere and Voltaire have several things in common. They both are French writers and passionate to write stories about religion. For example, Moliere wrote “Tartuffe or the Imposter” and Voltaire wrote “Candide or Optimism”. Those stories are related to the religion belief. Voltaire story stated that "As far as human concerned, God gave them reason and then left them free to use it". It has happened in the Moliere story (Tartuffe) if Orgon had faith in God he would not bring the deceiver into…

On Friday November 13, I had the pleasure of seeing one of Moliere’s most famous theatrical comedies, Tartuffe, performed at the University Theatre of Cal State San Bernardino Ronald E. Barnes Theatre. In the play, Orgon, a wealthy Parisian patriarch falls under the influence of a hypocrite named Tartuffe. Luckily, Tartuffe’s antics do not fool the rest of the family or friends. In order to show Orgon how terrible Tartuffe really is, his wife Elmire, takes matters into her own hands. She…

Orgon, the head of the household in the comedy Tartuffe: a respected man by his friends and family and righteously served the King; he is a rational, sane man but questions emerge when he becomes ludicrous and he is not the same man as he was before. He demonstrates a form of satire because of his strong-willed mind of Tartuffe and then being tricked into the fraudly innocence of Tartuffe. His actions lead to different conflicts within the family which leads us to believe that he is careless…

acceptable to openly condemn and express personal opinions about topics, such as, women rights, religion, and politics. However, during the enlightenment, in the seventeenth century, there was a slight change. Authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Moliere, deliberately expressed their concerns about this “controversial” topics, through their literary work. For one, Mary Wollstonecraft, in 1776 published, A vindication of the right of women. Wollstonecraft in her essay, integrates the idea of…

rapture he would bend and kiss the ground” (Moliere 32). Tartuffe is trying to gain Orgon’s benevolence by doing acts meant to impress: “When I rose to go, he’d run before/ To offer me holy-water at the door […] I gave him gifts, but in his humbleness/ He’d beg me every time to give him less” (Moliere 32). Tartuffe also gains Madame Pernelle’s sympathy: “He’s a fine man, and should be listened to./ I will not hear him mocked by fools like you” (Moliere…

The Frogs Debate The two playwrights I have chosen for the purpose of this essay are Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), known by his stage name as Molière, and Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906). Molière was born on January 15th in Paris, France and is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. I have chosen Molière as one of my two playwrights because I believe that one of the ways to ‘save society’ is through comedy. Ibsen was born on the March 20th in Skien,…

one of many factors that lead Molière to create the famous play Tartuffe. Throughout the play, there are various themes of religious hypocrisy and how religion can be used negatively. The first performance of the play was in 1664, and it was immediately censored by the catholic church. It did not reappear in theater until 5 years later in 1669. Even after the censorship the play was heavily criticized by the religious community because they believed that Molière was attacking their…

labeled as a comedy, it will have a happy ending that will leave the audience feeling content. In reality, while the contrived ending that Moliere has written and a direct interpretation of the text in the staging of the play will leave the audience feeling…

Literary works generally acknowledge their authors aspects on distinct social issues. Tartuffe a play by Moliere, and Candide an abstract satire by Voltaire, both deal with the question of religion in society. Tartuffe is a satire on the position of the middle class toward religion in seventeenth-century France. Moliere is strong on the belief in religious moderation and disapproves religious hypocrisy and hatred. On the other hand, Voltaire’s Candide satirizes eighteenth-century European…

his stage name, Moliere. In Tartuffe, the power of false teaching and habit of trusting the wrong sort of people is illuminated throughout the play. Moliere was greatly influenced by the historical conflicts that the Enlightenment era brought, specifically pertaining to the church’s response to the new age of thinking and reasoning. Even though Moliere seems to be mocking the Catholic faith, he is actually attacking “the misuse of faith” within Tartuffe (Martin Puchner 142). Moliere use Tartuffe…