Tartuffe

In Tartuffe, Molière satirizes religious fanaticism, false piety, and immoral, hypocritical con artists who present themselves a religious zealots. In The Misanthrope, Molière satirizes immorality,...

Tartuffe satirizes religious hypocrisy through its main character, Tartuffe, who pretends to be pious while engaging in deceitful and immoral behavior. Orgon's gullibility and fanaticism are also...

Tartuffe features complex characters, each representing different aspects of society and human nature. Tartuffe himself is a hypocritical conman, exploiting religious piety for personal gain. Orgon,...

King Louis XIV issued a ban against the public performance of Moliere's Tartuffe because of its depiction of a member of the clergy as an impostor and a hypocrite.

Molière wrote Tartuffe in rhyming couplets to conform to the strict standards of French neoclassicism dictated by the Académie française, which required plays to use alexandrine couplets. This form...

Molière's Tartuffe highlights gender inequality and contradicts expected gender roles through characters like Elmire and Mariane. Elmire defies traditional passive female roles by actively exposing...

Molière employs rhyming couplets and a twelve-syllable line structure (alexandrine) in "Tartuffe" to enhance its comedic pace and memorability. This rhyme scheme provides structure and aids both...

Molière reveals Tartuffe's hypocrisy through the opinions and descriptions of other characters, such as Dorine, Cléante, and Damis, who discuss Tartuffe's manipulative and deceitful nature....

In Molière's Tartuffe, women characters both challenge and support traditional power structures. Madame Pernelle supports the status quo by blindly following Tartuffe's religious pretense. Elmire and...

The satirical effect in Tartuffe, act 4, scene 5 is the exposure of Tartuffe’s deception through mocking his hidden patron. As Tartuffe tries to seduce Elmire, he does not know that Orgon is hiding...

Tartuffe reflects Enlightenment themes such as reason, individualism, and skepticism of authority, particularly religious hypocrisy. Contemporary objections included the play’s critical portrayal of...

In Moliere's Tartuffe, 'seeing', 'deception', and 'masks' are central themes. Tartuffe deceives Orgon by wearing a mask of piety and virtue, exploiting Orgon's refusal to see the truth. Despite...

Tartuffe constantly asserts how devout he is, and Orgon, in whose house he is a long-term guest, always believes him. Cleante and others are not readily convinced. Tartuffe continues to manifest his...

Although unsuccessful in his attempt to convince Orgon, Cleante makes an important point. Tartuffe uses religion and false piety as a means of perpetrating a fraud on Orgon. In Molière’s era, nothing...

In Tartuffe and The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and Alceste are alike in that they are both exaggerated explorations of a character type, but different in that one is evil and the other good. Other...

In Moliere's seventeenth-century farce Tartuffe, the playwright does not formally introduce the title character until the second scene of the third act. The delayed emergence of Tartuffe serves a...

In Tartuffe, Molière uses metaphors of seeing and blindness to illustrate Orgon's inability to perceive Tartuffe's deceit. Orgon is metaphorically "blind" to Tartuffe's hypocrisy, ignoring his...

The rhyming couplets aid the comedy in The Misanthrope and Tartuffe because their melodious tone belies the discordant narratives. Audience members might find the sharp contrast between form and...

"Tartuffe and the Golden Mean"

The characters in Moliere's Tartuffe contribute to the comic points the author makes by being entertaining. Those characters are Orgon, who is an idiot, and Tartuffe, who is a hypocritical hypocrite....

The conflict between Mariane and Valere arises primarily due to Orgon's actions in Tartuffe. Orgon breaks his promise of Mariane's marriage to Valere by insisting she marry Tartuffe instead. This...

In Molière's play, Tartuffe exemplifies religious hypocrisy by feigning piety to deceive Orgon and Madame Pernelle, while secretly pursuing a life of indulgence and attempting to seduce Orgon's wife,...

Tartuffe uses deception by posing as a devout and charitable man to manipulate others and advance his personal agenda of gaining wealth and social status. Despite his outward appearance of piety, he...

The first scene with Madame Pernelle in Molière's Tartuffe is humorous due to her over-the-top, self-righteous, and hypocritical nature. She criticizes everyone while defending Tartuffe, setting up...

In "Tartuffe," Tartuffe's primary flaw is his sociopathy; he manipulates and deceives others for personal gain, showing no remorse. This flaw leads to his temporary success in deceiving Orgon and...

The two women, Dorine in Tartuffe, and Sor Juana, were influenced by the Age of Enlightenment.

Cleante's speech in "Tartuffe" highlights human irrationality through Enlightened thinking by questioning Orgon's blind trust in Tartuffe. Cleante, embodying Enlightenment values, challenges Orgon to...

Tartuffe deceives Orgon by skillfully manipulating his character flaws, particularly through reverse psychology. Tartuffe presents himself as pious and humble, refusing Orgon’s charity to appear...

Dorine is the "wise servant" in Tartuffe, offering sharp insights into the foolishness of the upper classes and exposing Tartuffe's deceit. She serves as a voice of reason amidst the chaos,...

Orgon's description of Tartuffe in Act 1.5 highlights Tartuffe's ostentatious display of piety in church, which starkly contrasts with the biblical teaching in Matthew 6:6. While Tartuffe's public...

In Tartuffe, the relationship between convention and morality is dramatized through the characters' hypocrisy and deceit. Tartuffe, a fraud, exploits social conventions and pretends to be pious to...

In "Tartuffe: Play in A Theater Near You", Christopher Baker writes about the original production (1664) of Tartuffe. He explains Molière's choice of subject and how he integrated it with his own...