So you’ve decided to audition for a theater conservatory? Well, first off, congratulations on taking a very wise and professional step for your future. However, just deciding to go to a conservatory is one thing, but actually auditioning for one, well, that’s something completely different. Every conservatory has a unique admissions policy, however, they all ...
In Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere’s play, “Tartuffe,” the character Dorine signifies closely with the ideas and actions of the Enlightenment era. There are several specific instances which support this, and the overall demeanor of the character throughout the play also shows how aligned with the Enlightenment the character was written. In the first act and scene ...
In the novel Don Quixote and the play Tartuffe neither Don Quixote nor Orgon feared women. Don Quixote thought himself a romantic and loved women, specifically his lady, Aldonza Lorenzo, whom he called “Dulcinea del Toboso” (1531). Orgon was anything but a romantic. He paid no attention to his wife, Elmire, and treated his daughter, ...
Over the centuries, poetry has been the genre of literature with the least audience. One can commonly see people reading through novels and drama/plays but not always the poems. It is like a bullet which though small in size but is mighty indeed. Among all genres of literature, it is the most subjective; perhaps, this ...
The idea of belief in Molière’s Tartuffe is mainly addressed in the interactions among Orgon, the father, and the other members of his family. The overall intention of the play is to show the repercussions of believing too steadfastly in something, or in this case someone. This warning against dogmatic belief is portrayed by showing ...
In Molière’s Tartuffe, Cléante, a rational, moral, prudent man, faces turmoil in the house of Orgon: a menagerie of unwarranted passions, mistaken ideas, willful self-deception, and the deceitful manipulations of Tartuffe the imposter. Molière uses Cléante as a harmonizing influence on those embroiled in the chaos; Cléante serves as the paragon of rational morality, the ...
It is clear to anyone that reads Tartuffe, that the speech given by the Officer in Act 5, Scene 7 toward the end of the play is a deus ex machina mechanism. Simply put, the speech is there to resolve the complications in the plot. There can be little doubt of this since the passage ...