Examples Of The Obstacles Of Tartuffe

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Tartuffe creates most of the obstacles for himself, as opposed to Candide who runs into them parse. Tartuffe creates every obstacle he has for himself, from beginning to end. With that being said, he creates the obstacles for Elmire and Orgon and at the end of the play the obstacle creates itself for him from someone else and that’s where his optimism subsides. The obstacles that he doesn’t create at the beginning of the story are the characters who don’t believe him such as; Damis, Dorine, Elmire, and Cleante. They create a diversion for Tartuffe that ends up being useful in the long run. Tartuffe is more of a plan person, he creates plans and then uses them to get what he wants. That’s where his optimism subsides. He creates the plans in hopes of them succeeding. That’s what optimism is. That’s what Tartuffe’s optimism is. He chose the people who wanted to pick out and how he wanted to go about it and started from there. Tartuffe creating the obstacle of him admitting his feelings for Elmire, “I felt that I must hide from this temptation:/You. My feelings threatened my salvation” (41). This moment …show more content…

Tartuffe mentions the first time he shows up in the entire play, “Laurent, lock up my scourge and/hair shirt too” (39). He feels the need to even mention what he has while Dorine is around like it should matter to her or anyone. If he is going with this plan of being a priest, he shouldn’t have to scream what he has. With him being a priest, you see a sense of self-righteousness right off the bat. After Elmire pretends to admit she likes him back, he also gets some sort of

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