The Misanthrope Essay

The Complex Alceste of The Misanthrope "I cannot improve on it, and assuredly never shall," said Molière of his satire The Misanthrope, {1} and the critic Nicholas Boileau-Despréaux concurred by accounting it one of Molière's best plays.{2} But the French public did not like it much, preferring the dramatist's more farcical The Doctor in Spite of Himself--a play that, according to tradition, was written two months after The Misanthrope's premiere to make up for the latter's lack of success.{3}

I'm proud to be a misanthrope, I feel it's an enlightening, motivating, and positive state of mind; I hate humans with a passion. I'm fed up and disgusted with humanity ever since I was young and I have witnessed how humans really are. When I was younger I was surprised with humanity, their wars over nothing, the ignorance, the questionable things they would do to others, themselves, and even their own family, this made me aware of how they really are. The older I got, the more I understood them

Glass Ball An idealist is a person who is guided more by ideals than by practical consideration; In other word, an idealist realizes that he or she can create there own world. Perception, ideals, and beliefs are what make people “failures” or “successful”; coincidentally, the definition of success and failure is also a perception. Diving deeper into this mysterious theory or fact, beliefs people have ultimately control what actions they take on a daily basis. An example of this, using a common fear

The Satirical Transformation of Gulliver Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is difficult to come to terms with for a multitude of reasons. The most immediate problem is that of genre. How may Gulliver’s Travels be categorized? It’s a fiction; it’s written in prose; it’s a children’s tale; it’s a comedy; it’s a tragedy; however, to say this is to say very little. Clearly it’s satirical, but that is not to say it’s a satire. Arther E. Case, for example, thinks that it’s not a satire: “it would be more accurate

From Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, it features a mean, green creature who lived atop a mountain next to Whoville; who cannot simply stand and abide by Christmas. While Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol features the nasty, dismal misanthrope who lived in London and thought Christmas was a waste of time. Therefore, this evidence proves that the Grinch is the meanest of them all. Scrooge is a rude, dismal man who hates mankind, and Christmas. During Christmastime there is a lot of charity

After Monsieur D’Alembert proposes a theatre in republican Geneva, where Rousseau hails from, Rousseau argues that the theatre would destroy the city’s morality. In his Letter to M. D’Alembert on the Theatre, Rousseau argues that because of how a theatre focuses on providing entertainment, there would be nothing decent that would arise from it. In addition, Rousseau claims that while the theatre has productions that have morally sound endings, as D’Alembert suggests, the fact that there would be

village of Concord, the author seemingly self aware of his situation. Schultz criticism is overly literal, arguing that “Thoreau’s retreat at Walden was a desperate compromise.” The problem is that Walden is not a desperate attempt by a narcissistic misanthrope to distance himself from society, but rather an attempt by Thoreau to balance his own

different aspects of society during that time. During the Restoration period, there is one author who stands out from the rest and is known as the father of comedy of manners and that author is Molliere. One of his most notable pieces of work was the Misanthrope; thats core principles are based on the comedy of manners.The fundamentals of the comedy of manners often have a multiple consistencies that are true to most plays written during that time. It’s sole purpose is to get a satirical perspective at

Schulz, a staff writer at The New Yorker, wrote “Pond Scum,” a fiery indictment against Thoreau and his novel Walden. Schulz uses her prodigious talent for wordplay and literary deconstruction to make her case that Thoreau was a hypocrite and a misanthrope. Yet, Schulz’s argument falls flat by focusing heavily on oversimplification. “Pond Scum” provides a fresh opportunity to replace the common idea of Thoreau as a wilderness hermit, with an image of a more complex and contradictory person to be admired

Molière: The Satirist In a quote widely attributed to Molière, he claims to have suffered from “the fault of being a little more sincere than proper,” a flaw that led him to write satirical plays that have stood the test of time. Works like The Misanthrope, The Imaginary Invalid, and Tartuffe still enchant audiences four hundred years after their creation. The reason these plays have survived the rise and fall of the French enlightenment, when they were written, as well as the trials of numerous translations