Essays on Tartuffe

Tartuffe is a comic play written by french writer “Moliere”, who tells the story of a religious hypocrite attempt to the peace and harmony of a family, as the two heads of the house received him as a guest and a respectable gentleman. The reading...

The seventeenth century brought the era of the scientific revolution, perhaps the most important change in the history of science. The philosophers started to wonder how things happened. The ‘new method’, a new attitude towards science, consists in investigating nature with one’s own senses and...

Hypocrisy is a character trait, and to some it ‘s clear Tartuffe is called a hypocrite right from the start. In Molière’s Tartuffe, the central character, a man named Orgon, has been completely brainwashed and taken advantage of by the title character, a manipulative and...

“Tartuffe or The Impostor” is one of Moliere’s most famous plays, which premiered in 1664, but remains popular to this day. The name Tartuffe became a household name, denoting a deceiver, a prude, a hypocrite. Moliere is an outstanding satirist, a talented poet, but in...

In Candide, the main character, Candide, brutally murders men who played a powerful role in the Church, such as the Baron and the Inquisitor, because these men chose not to follow religious ideals. Religious positions, like the Inquisitor’s role, hold more power, which causes hardships...

During the Age of Enlightenment, many philosophers and great thinkers alike dwelled on the absurdity of the social norms of the time and criticized them through their literature and other works of art. Authors like Voltaire and Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière were considered to be integral...