Hypocrite In The Play Tartuffe

A hypocrite is a person, who pretends to have moral value, various religious beliefs, and principals, which do not show their true, character but rather whom they are pretending to portray. In 1664, a play writer Moliere wrote Tartuffe based on religious hypocrisy to showcase the hardship people faced with so much moral standard that they had to live up to. In 1660s religion played a key role in people's thoughts, values, and morals. In the play, Orgon, an extremely wealthy man, falls for the evil doings of a hypocrite named Tartuffe. Orgon becomes obsessed with Tartuffe’s values and what he stands for because he Tartuffe portrays himself as a man of high religious value. This is a key point because, at Moliere’s time, the Catholic Church had

The way that Moliere constructs the play symbolizes the overall lesson that he wants the audience to see. Moliere wants his audience to realize the importance of reasoning and thinking for yourself. He does this by incorporating our human nature with gullibility and religion. By incorporating these three aspects he allows his audience to question what they have so long believed: that a man of god is a man of good. By creating a character like Tartuffe who acts like a moral authority while doing immoral and unethical thing, Moliere showcases what he wants his audience to see. When the playwright created Orgon his goal was to create a character that ignores common sense and becomes infatuated with person who is a religious hypocrite. The relationship between Orgon and Tartuffe leads to Orgon’s breakdown of relationships with his son and wife, financial problems, and personal embarrassment that he was so foolish to put his trust into a person with such little moral value. Moliere themes in ‘Tartuffe’ teach us to be more open-minded as human beings, and to not devote trust in people who essentially are