Tartuffe Character Analysis

Factors to Shape one’s Personality That Led to Its Fate We know that one’s fate depends on one’s personality because personality will determine people’s choice. Then choices affect one’s surroundings people are living in. Eventually, surroundings is closely linked with one’s fate. At this point, we might be wondering what factors are shaping one’s personality. As I make a comparison and contrast with two characters who are Sensuous Woman and Mariane, I know that One’s personality is determined by a variety of aspects such as political system, economic possession and cultural influence, then personality drive people to make up their decision, therefore affects people’s fate.
One of the factors to shape one’s personality is political system, which will affect one’s choices leaded

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin known by his stage name Moliere who is the author of Tartuffe, was born in 1622 and died in 1673. At that time, France was led by the powerful Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister Louis XIV, and where Catholic Church still wielded strong power. Power and rights are distributed unequally at that time. Women must follow what their fathers and husband said and had such little power that hard to resist. With this political background, Tartuffe was created. In this play, a stubborn father blocks the course of young love and even try to let his daughter marry Tartuffe who is a hypocrisy of piety. Mariane is the daughter asked for marrying with a hypocrisy. In play 2.1, Mariane said to her father, “Then, Father, I will say what you allow.” Also in the play 2.3, Mariane said to her maid, “You know that fathers have such sway over our lives that I’ve nothing to say. I’ve never had the strength.” At first, Mariane had no choice but to follow her father’s words since fathers have wielded considerable power that they can make a decision on their daughters’ marriage at that society. From those words, it is shown