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    Reason In Tartuffe

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    wrote Tartuffe, which mocks the hypocrisy he frequently observed in people who put an act of piety. It contains even more intense ridicule of people who fall for such facades (Moliere notes).In his work Moliere, says “The King soon recognizes Tartuffe as one Notorious by another name, who’d done so many vicious crimes that one could fill ten volumes with them, and be writing still.” (Moliere) The quote symbolizes the fact on the hypocrisy of the ones who put forth an act of piety. Tartuffe evidently

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    Hypocrisy In Tartuffe

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    Hannah Moak Dr. Newman English 212 5 December 2014 The Use of Hypocrisy in Tartuffe Political theorist, Hannah Arendt, once stated, “The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core

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    Tartuffe Reflection

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    I also discussed the fact about how Fermina Daza gradually decays from strong headed young adult to conformant wife. In my opinion t felt to interpret a novel in front of my school and my class mates. We also had a talk about the role of women in Tartuffe; especially with the maid and the future spouse of Valere, Marianne. We talked about how Damis and Marianne were complete

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    Women In Tartuffe

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    and queens were ordinary mortals, and that conclusion implied new kinds of uncertainty. Society in this period worked by the means of well-defined codes of behavior. Religion during this period was still very important to many people. Moliere’s “Tartuffe” is a great illustration on how religion affected people at that time. Moliere was very brave to write this story based on how the Catholic Church was influencing and blinding people. Women also played a huge part of the enlightenment period and

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    Romanticism In Tartuffe

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    age is titled Tartuffe, by the Author Jean-Baptiste Moliere. This play has several characteristics pointing toward the Enlightenment period, including the desire for equality. On the other hand, you have the opposite of the Enlightenment, which is the Romanticism period. Indicated by The Norton Anthology, the duration

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    Reason In Tartuffe Essay

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    they know all too well. Molière bravely mocked the self-righteous people of the Church in his play, Tartuffe. He displays the battle between passion and reason. He saw the battle take place between his peers in the Enlightenment. They fought for reason while trying to fight against passion in themselves. Molière portrays the struggle between passion and reason in a comedic way during Tartuffe. During Act II, Orgon’s daughter struggles between being the daughter society approves of and following

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    Moliere’s Tartuffe is a piece of literature originating in France during the 17th century, which was the so called age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. Plato would most likely approve of the message that Moliere tries to push through Tartuffe. That is: rationality and reason trump all. Plato may not be the most supportive of art and literature but if it happens to be a medium that lends to his principles of reason, logic, rationality and above all the maintenance of the social order then he

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    Most likely no play in the theatre history has given rise to such a tempest of criticizing and controversy as has "Tartuffe" by Moliere. This is chiefly because it handles that question, always so sensitive and complicated to deal with - religion. Indeed, even today authors managing with subjects touching any specific race or statement of faith, find it difficult to please everyone. In each edge of the world, there are readers ready to take offense whether justified or not. In this way, it was in

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    world that are looking at one face instead of the other. In Moliere’s play "Tartuffe" shows that people will look at one face and ignore the other face of that person. Tartuffe was a character of these things, Tartuffe was a two -faced person and Oregon was the character that was blinded by the first face that Tartuffe showed orgon. Tartuffe was taken by Orgon and was taken care by organ as well. Moliere’s plays Tartuffe showed a few aspects of hypocrisy, deception and obsession. As the plat was

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    Sun King In Tartuffe

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    Moliere’s favor due to the King favoring Moliere. In fact, Moliere refers to the King as the “Sun King” in Tartuffe. Having the Kings support, Moliere was able to poke fun at French society and hypocrisy with very little if any hostility, however Moliere was always upping the ante and in 1664 he decided to take on the hypocrisy of religious zealots by writing the controversial Tartuffe. During this

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