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This essay provides a comparison of Moliere's comedy "Tartuffe" with Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man." The paper further demonstrates the values and concerns of the authors during their respective eras of absolute monarchy and the Age of Enlightenment.

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"During the life of Moliere, the foundation for the philosophical movement known as the Enlightenment or Age of Reason was set a time when men united on a vastly ambitious program of secularism, humanity, cosmopolitanism and freedom. (Gay) Part of the reason for this was the long and powerful rule of France's King Louis XIV who helped increase the influence and authority of Kingship while undermining the power of the Church and clergy. Nevertheless the period before the Enlightenment..."

Tags:Catholic Church, age of enlightenment, Louis XIV, France, reformation, protestants, science, nature, Pope, Tartuffe, Moliere

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This paper explores the significance of religious fanaticism in Moliere's 1664 play, "Tartuffe: or the Imposter." The paper explains that Moliere's comedy satirizes the zealous and spiritual, as protagonist Tartuffe, feigning religious zealotry, takes in the weak and the supposedly pious, who are easily fooled by anything they think is spiritual. The paper clarifies that Moliere is not critical of religion, so much as of the zealots and fanatics, and of those who put too much faith into religion without questioning the motives of the overly faithful. The paper concludes that "Tartuffe" sheds light on the way people react to religion and religious fanaticism, and shows that some people will use religion for their own gains, preying on the weak and the overly pious.

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"In the end, Orgon discovers Tartuffe attempting to seduce his wife, and then he learns, in a complex part of the plot, that Tartuffe has obtained ownership of Orgon's house, and he is going to force the family to leave, leaving them in financial and personal ruin. Tartuffe has denounced Orgon to the king, and Orgon is devastated. The man he trusted and gave so much to has betrayed him, and has shown himself to be nothing more than an evil manipulator. When it seems as if nothing can intervene, the police arrest Tartuffe and restore the home to Orgon and his family. The king, who is pure and good, saw the evil in Tartuffe's heart and knows that he has committed crimes in the past."

Tags:faithful, religion, fundamentalist, prejudice, Orgon, bias

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This essay presents an analysis on the topic of satire, focusing on Voltaire's "Candide" and Moliere's "Tartuffe", two works by French authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Both works critically present the social customs and the values of their age. Specifically, the paper argues that while Voltaire's "Candide" is concerned with making fun of some of the ideas of the enlightenment, Moliere's "Tartuffe" can largely be seen as a critique of the social customs of the aristocracy or the 'decadence' of the rich or wealthy, so to speak.

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"As satire demonstrates, humor can be one of the more functional literary devices toward a form of moral or social criticism. By and large, the themes and the narratives which are associated with this genre and style of writing, concern social customs, values or beliefs which are criticized through being satirized."

Tags:Enlightenment, Orgon, Elmire, Anatomy, of, Criticism

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This paper is on the topic of satire, and specifically, this paper will focus on Voltaire's 'Candide' and on Moliere's 'Tartuffe' . These are both by French author's of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and both works critically present the social customs and the values of their age. Specifically, it can be argued that while Voltaire's 'Candide' is concerned with making fun of some of the ideas of the enlightenment (which will be examined), it is the case that Moliere's 'Tartuffe' can largely be seen as a critique of the social customs of the aristocracy or the 'decadence' of the rich or wealthy.

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This paper explains that satire is a device that writers utilize to comment of the state of the human condition. The author points out that the character Orgon, in Jean Baptiste Moliere's play Tartuffe, illustrates man's gullibility; Swift, in his essay "A Modest Proposal", emphasizes how man has become insensitive to his fellow man by proposing a logical argument and Voltaire in "Candide" demonstrates the folly of philosophy. The paper states that each author shows how the readers can learn from their behavior if they stop being serious long enough to lighten up and learn to laugh.

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"In Voltaire's "Candide", Pangloss becomes the object of satire. He represents the so-called educated individuals that hold themselves in higher regard than everyone else. We are expected to believe that he is a high-minded philosopher. However, as we learn more about him and listen to what he has to say, we have to question just how intelligent he actually is. In fact, he does not seem to have any sense at all. We find out that he has contracted syphilis and through his dialogue, he traces this disease all the way back to Columbus' voyage. The absurdity does not stop there."

Tags:device, commentary, insensitive, laugh, philosophy

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This paper explores the theme of honesty in this play and how the characters convey Moliere's message that, while honesty is much appreciated everywhere, it is important to use tact while being honest or else we risk alienation from society.

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"The play revolves around four important characters, Alceste, Celimene, Philinte and Eliante. It is through the characters of Alceste and Celimene that the author conveys his views on honesty. Philinte serves the important purpose of balancing honesty and deceit by adopting a middle path, which is both sensible and practical. Alceste is the protagonist of the play who is a man of rather unfriendly disposition and t5his unfriendliness emerges from his desire to be complete and even bluntly honest about everything."

Tags:insensitive, deceit, conceit, corrupt, folly, hurt, evil, tolerant, shortcomings, rudeness

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This is an argumentative paper regarding the play "Tartuffe" written by Jean-Paul Moliere. The author has taken a unique stance equating the family, and their relationships to the military and its chain of command in the play. The author concentrates on how Orgon, the father in the play, failed as a commanding chief and father.

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"When Jean-Baptiste Moli're decided to write the play Tartuffe, he knew full well that this play would contain a story of religious hypocrisy that would be very controversial. But to make his point more clear Moli're was not attacking religion itself, but rather the hypocrites within it. In this same manner Moli're made a very strong statement about the structure of the family in his time. Moli're used the platform of a comedic play about religious hypocrisy to show a common fault of the family structure, a structure not all unlike that of the ranks in the military. He illustrates a conventional dissension among the very ranks of the family structure. He demonstrates how Orgon, the father, fails in his responsibilities as the commanding officer of his own unit/family. But before one can unquestionably state that Orgon failed, a good example of a commanding officer must be given."

Tags:century, orgon, seventeenth, father, family, commander, military, duty, deceit

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"Tartuffe" (Hypocrite) became public in the year 1664 for the first time as a three-act play that, when produced, attracted unfavorable denigration from religious factions. This paper discusses the hidden matter or the message of the play in addition to critical analysis from scholarly sources. In the play, one sees hypocrisy of the characters, especially hypocrisy of the main character in the play. However, it is not always clear that what one sees is true, and it is also true that seeing does not always leads to believing. In the play, the writer, Moliere, derided unnecessary godliness that he views as being a true from of hypocrisy; he did not condemn the actions of the pious people, but those who appear to be religious and, thus, are hypocrites.

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"Thus, the hypocrisy that is evidently ridiculed in the play is specifically related to religious hypocrites. In fact, the theme and message of the play is convened to the public by means of satire and comedy in the play. If we go in to the history of the play, the time and the situation when it was written, we come to know that the play was directed most probably at the Company of the Holy reparation. This was a furtive society that was instituted in the year 1627 and the main aims of the society was to oppress unorthodoxy and religious opposition, where other aims concerned with spreading the extreme religious faiths by means of charity as well as other missionary work, in addition to improvement of its well defined standards ethics and morals. In effect, the society was a sort of a representation of a pious police from whom the private lives of the people were no secret."

Tags:belief, seeing, beleiving

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This paper examines how, through readings of Molieres "Tartuffe", Voltaires "Candide" and Jonathan Swifts "Gulliver's Travels", their points of view on human nature can be argued on many different themes such as the function of religion, what might be good government and the concept of their own view of society. It also discusses how the main focus of these works is largely to point out follies of society in some sense or another and how they critically present the social customs and the values of their time.

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"Specific examples of this human nature theory found in Molieres' play "Tartuffe" would be the main character Orgon. By revealing the Human Nature of Orgon in this play, it clearly shows how desperately afraid of insult in his society and therefore he does everything to preserver his dignity and standing in upper French class life. Tartuffe is set in the realm of seventeenth-century Parisian high society during the reign of King Louis XIV. It could be said that although the play focuses on the issue of religious hypocrisy, it was more of a "kiss up" to King Louis XIV. Orgon was blind to the possibility that Tartuffe may be deceiving him in order to gain both financially and socially. That type of behavior was forbidden by the King."

Tags:tartuffe, gulliver's, travels, candide, society

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"The purpose of this research is to examine "The Miser" by Moliere. The plan of the research will be to set forth a short outline of the story, and to discuss the principal critical ideas that have arisen around the play.

The action of The Miser is built around the central character (comic hero), Harpagon, who has been consumed by his avarice, and whose enactment of that avarice on all the other characters in the play provides its central tension. Harpagon opposes the marital intentions of his son Cleante toward Mariane because he wants to marry her himself; and of his daughter Elise toward Valere because he wants to marry her off to his rich elderly friend Anselm. The greed of Harpagon, who indulges himself in jewelry and finery but denies ordinary comforts to his children and servants, has driven his children to deceit and his ... "