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Tartuffe by Molière

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Tartuffe is about a fraud named Tartuffe who pretends to have divine authority. He insinuates into the household of Orgon and cause chaos. Tartuffe’s influence on Orgon is clearly depicted when he influences Orgon to make the decision that her daughter Mariane will marry him. The main aim of Tartuffe is to seduce Orgon’s wife Elmire but he is finally busted and thrown out of the house by Orgon. Tartuffe returns and orders eviction of the family since Orgon has already transferred the ownership of his house. Things end happily where Tartuffe is discovered to be a criminal just before eviction. He is, therefore, arrested and Orgon’s property is given back to him. Moliere has used his writing talent to describe the flows of humanity through this book. Tartuffe presents a character he has created who is hypocrite. With this, he intends to educate people on the importance of having good morals. His main intention in producing this book is to educate people in a way that amuses. This makes it easy to deliver the content successfully as opposed to attacking people. Through this book, the playwright develops numerous themes like religion, sex, ambition, family, loyalty, and marriage. It is, therefore, demonstrates composure of Moliere in developing and coming with up with great art. Since this book by Moliere addressed religion hypocrisy, it was highly rejected and was banned from public performance. Despite that it had an exemplary teaching on those people who preach morals but cannot live to demonstrate the morals, it appeared controversial. I think the playwright had a great intention in developing the book. He uses excellent and realistic experience in order to express the theme of hypocrisy. It is a high quality book that demonstrates exemplary development of script, choice of characters, and use of writing skills. It is a book that provides amusement to the audience and also moral teachings regarding how to avoid a wicked way of l

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