Essay about Orgon The Good, Or Orgon The B

Tartuffe initially comes off as a well put together religious man, who has nothing but good intentions in mind. However, Tartuffe is deviously disguising his harmful intentions through religion in which he puts on a front of smoke and mirrors hiding the fact that he is, in fact, the opposite of a devout, put together christian.  When Orgon first meets Tartuffe, he has great respect for him simply for the fact that Orgon believes that Tartuffe is a religious man.  Knowing this, Tartuffe believes that he now has the power to do whatever he wants within Orgon’s house.  Molière exposes Tartuffe’s hypocrisy and abuse of religious power through the way that Tartuffe communicates throughout the play.  The character Tartuffe does not appear in the play until the third act, once every other character has had the opportunity to describe their opinion.  Molière uses this as a way to expose tartuffe’s real character through the way tartuffe communicates with the other characters.  When Tartuffe speaks, he portrays a very confident superior being to everybody else with almost a divine presence. It fools the society that tartuffe is targeting and essentially gets what he wants.  He also takes religious passages and interprets them to fit into his

In Tartuffe, Moliere's use's plot to defend and oppose characters that symbolize and ridicule habitual behavior's that was imposed during the neo-classical time period. His work, known as a comedy of manners, consists of flat characters, with few and similar traits and that always restore some kind of peace in the end. He down plays society as a whole by creating a microseism, where everyone in the family has to be obedient, respectful, and mindful of the head of the home, which is played by the father Orgon. Mariane shows her obedience when she replies "To please you, sir, is what delights me best." (Moliere 324,11) Shortly afterwards, Orgon commands Mariane to take Tartuffe as her husband even though she is not interested in him at all.

Tartuffe is the ultimate hypocrite in this play due to his immoral actions that go against the Catholic ethics, which he preaches. Though he asserts to be religious, righteous, generous, he is in fact, deceitful, avaricious, and immoral (Cashman 80). Tartuffe hypocrisy is contagious, dangerous, and has a negative impact to those surrounding him; it affects Orgon by destabilizing his entire family and making them believe him as a supposedly spiritual man. Furthermore, those who result in believing him grow into pretenders. For example, Madame Pernelle who preaches Christian kindness, assaults her house help, whereas, Orgon commits wickedness against his household. Notably, some characters, such as Elmire, Dorine, and Cleante are strongly against Tartuffe’s hypocrisy. Both Dorine and Cleante employ rhetoric linguistic to attempt to contradict Tartuffe, and although their opinions are coherent, it is hard to triumph against him. Elmire notes, “You see him as a saint. I’m far less awed…in fact, I see right through him. He is fraud” (1.1.23). This aims to expose Tartuffe for what he truly is, by exploiting his lust for her to attest his insincerity to his spouse Orgon.

In the play Tartuffe written by french playwright Moliere, the main character, Orgon is duped by a hypocritical sham who calls himself Tartuffe. Orgon is portrayed as being very gullible. He trusts Tartuffe, who is deceitful and cunning. His wife, Elmire, his son, Damis, and his brother-in-law, Cleante see through Tartuffe's duplicity, but Orgon does not, continuing to trust Tartuffe completely. Because Orgon doesn't look beyond Tartuffe's act, he is easily made a fool. Those who easily trust others can just as easily be manipulated

In Tartuffe, Moliere's use's plot to defend and oppose characters that symbolize and ridicule habitual behavior's that was imposed during the neo-classical time period. His work, known as a comedy of manners, consists of flat characters, with few and similar traits, and that always restore some kind of peace in the end. He down plays society as a whole by creating a microseism, where everyone in the family has to be obedient, respectful, and mindful of the head of the home, which is played by the father Orgon. Mariane shows her obedience when she replies "To please you, sir, is what delights me best." (Moliere 324,11) Shortly afterwards, Orgon commands Mariane to take Tartuffe as her husband even though she is not interested in him at all. Orgon's command shows how men are dominate

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere's Tartuffe is an epic play of hypocrisy, betrayal, and the tale of a foolish mind. Moliere's choice of protagonist in this play happens to be the most blatantly ignorant character in the play. Orgon is naive to the villain Tartuffe's hypocritical ways, makes a complete dunce of himself by uplifting Tartuffe as holy, and failing to pick up the abundance of clues of Tartuffe being fake. Analyzing this character is rather interesting and at the same time frustrating to read of someone so ignorant that they fail to see the wolf hiding under the sheep clothing. A fool is a fool unless they open their eyes to see the truth, and it took Orgon the majority of the play to realize the truth.

People view the church as if it is being hypocritical of its people. Ultimately there was a distrust of institutional religion. The story begins with the characters divided among the house. Orgon and Madame Pernelle, who is Orgon’s mother, are sided with Tartuffe, who is the hypocrite. The opposing view is everyone else in the house that dislikes Tartuffe and wants him to leave for good. The church is represented by Tartuffe, the people who like the church are symbolized by Orgon and his mother, and everyone who is oppose are embodied in he remaining characters. It can be seen that Orgon only cares about Tartuffe when he says, “[…] Has all been well, these two days I’ve been gone?/ How are the family? What’s been going on?” Dorine replies with facts of the house and all Orgon can say is, “Ah. And Tartuffe.” Even when the news about Tartuffe is good yet the family is ill and all Orgon can utter is, “Poor fellow!” This shows how much the church has corrupted its people (Molière

Tartuffe’s reputation and actions precede his words and how he says he acts. Orgon is left with nothing but being in awe of Tartuffe thus even forgetting his own family. It is easier to be persuaded by people than it actually seems, especially for Orgon who has a lack of self-confidence. Orgon is totally and completely blinded by his own admiration for

But once Tartuffe is unmasked and his hypocrisy discovered, Orgon reverses himself and determines to hate and persecute all pious men. Orgon in the play seems to represent man's extravagant and uncontrollable nature, which never takes the right and rational direction, but instead, constantly shifts between absurd extremes.

In the play Tartuffe, Orgon is irrationally extravagant in his beliefs and that sort of extreme thinking is still seen in today’s culture. Orgon subscribes so strongly with Tartuffe’s religious manipulations that he proclaims, “The real world – that’s just some spell we’re under! He’s taught me to love nothing and no one!” (Moliere 22). Throwing away any love for people or reality is quite extreme, and Orgon shows his especially one-sided notion when he says, “Mother, father, wife, daughter, son – they could die right now, I’d feel no pain”(Moliere 22). I believe that irrational, extravagant types exist in 21st century culture in the forms of religious, political, and social fanatics, but glaringly so in politics. Similarly to Orgon’s infatuation with Tartuffe’s philosophy, I have seen people become so enamored with talk show hosts touting extravagant political ideals that they align their beliefs

At this moment, we see that Tartuffe is two-faced and he knows that Orgon will believe what he has to say considering he is a saint. Orgon confronts Tartuffe and in disbelief Tartuffe admits what he has said and continues to tell Orgon what a bad person he is. Orgon then is disappointed with Damis for telling a "lie" and questioning Tartuffe's purity. Orgon is too blind to see that Damis is telling the truth, because he is so sure that Tartuffe could not commit such a sin. As the play continues, in Act IV Scene III, Elmire offers for Orgon to hear for himself.

He is at the beginning of the play seen as a God like figure, particularly to Orgon and Madame Pernelle, by this he is strong and inspirational, however, when he does realises he has been found out for being in the wrong, his persona changes to guilty and even vulnerable. This is shown in Act III scene 6 when Damis accuses Tartuffe of trying to seduce Elmire, Tartuffe uses reverse psychology to win Orgon over by confessing the all things awful, to an extent in which Orgon begins to sympathise with him. It is clearly shown that Tartuffe goes to the absolute extreme when he apologises to Orgon;

Moliere takes the time to explain that Orgon is no fool, but rather an intelligent man whose current behavior is influenced by his infatuation with Tartuffe. While Orgon is apparently wise, he lacks control in his life and seeks

Since Orgon was blinded by Tartuffe’s spiritual stature, Orgon did not notice that Tartuffe was actually coveting his wife; dramatic irony was used here in that Orgon’s family and the audience already know that Tartuffe is a blackguard. Later in the story, Orgon finally changes his mind about Tartuffe when he sees Tartuffe trying to seduce his wife, but it was too late to make Tartuffe leave the house because by then, Tartuffe owned it.

He also should not be so blind and stubborn as to allow Tartuffe to spend so much time alone with his wife. Furthermore, heroes do not typically need saving, even if his savior is the King. This audience would have immediately experienced cognitive dissonance when a figure typically imagined as embodying security and intelligence becomes the object of laughter and cause of trouble in the play. I believe this was Moliere’s intent. Usually we as the audience try to identify with the protagonist. The audience would have been prepared to do so in “Tartuffe” as well. When they automatically put themselves into Orgon’s shoes, they imagine that they, too, are generally good, intelligent people. They see themselves as the protagonist of their own life. However, when Orgon begins to embody this idea of being deceived, the audience may start to examine their own lives and search for the hypocrisy within it. This identity crisis come full circle during the scene in which Tartuffe’s true intentions are revealed to Orgon. The audience then translates Orgon’s reactions to Tartuffe’s hypocrisy into reactions to the hypocrisy in their own lives.