moliere

At the beginning of the 17th century, enthusiasm individualism, skepticism, and emotionalism began to be extinguished and all the conventional things, orthodoxy, rationalism, conformity, order, refinement and eloquence, and etiquette are the new traits sought to be obtained. And a key influence of which is the rationalism of the famous Rene Descartes where he rejects all date except those supplied with observation and experience through the use of inferential learning where concluding one thing comes from experiencing it hand in hand. Another key influence why the said traits flourished in the 7th century is the church. The church in the 7th century is an equally big player together with King Louis the XIV, the Sun King. The be involved in the proceedings of the church is considered as a huge honor for them, and being a priest that time is like including yourself to an another class of individuals alongside with aristocrats and royalties where serving under the King will do any person a big honor.

But there was one who became controversial in the church because of the way he writes and makes his theatre. Jean Baptiste Poquelin or Moliere, known for his wits and satire. He is known as the enemy of the hypocrites, quacks, and snobs who uplifts themselves in the society by presenting themselves to others in an falsely elegant manners. He is also famous for his writing “Tartuffe”. In the setting of Tartuffe, it is a about a rich people with rich people problems where Orgon and his family tries so hard to learn everything all at once, singing, acting, painting, dancing, acting, just everything. Because the 17th century is also the time where art flourished so much after the renaissance period and the aristocrats, for maintaining thei...

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...d and made her husband to hide under the table. Then Elmire kissed Mr. Tartuffe made him go away. And their affair continued eventually. This part of the story may be connected to the gullibility of the religious persons that time. Taking the name of the Catholic Church to get the thing that priest want and that it is why it is controversial to the Church. Another thing why Moliere was called the enemy of the hypocrites is may be for the reason when Moliere had put in the story where Tartuffe revealed to Orgon inside the Salon that the woman the Orgon admires doesn't really looks up unto him and tha Orgon’s friend is only fooling him to loot money and jewelries from Orgon. In here, Moliere tries to reveal the pretentious person in the society of the 17th century as many are pretending to be somebody they are not to get the sympathy and admiration from other people.