... eyes are finally opened at the end of the play while his mother is still held by the farce of Tartuffe. Orgon is so willing to entrust everything he has into the care of Tartuffe. He places Tartuffe above the well being of his family. When he returns from his trip and asks Cleante how the household ... he was gone, Cleante tells him that his wife had been very sick. Orgon demands that Mariane give up Valere and marry Tartuffe. Although Madame Pernelle is seen as gullible, she is consistent. At the beginning of the play she is ridicules her family and compares them to ... ." (I, I , 52). ...

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... Orgon's mother. She is a cynical woman who is very stubborn in her ways. Madame Pernell is very strong willed and this creates a problem for her character. Throughout the play Tartuffe fools her. Tartuffe plays on her weakness by making her believe he is a humble, trustworthy man. Her stubbornness leads to her own confusion and eventually embarrassment throughout the play. In Act I, Madame ... ) She is scolding them for being rude, when she is in fact interrupting the other characters and being impolite herself. Madame Pernell respects Tartuffe. She believes he is a good man. The other c...

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... Orgon to the point where Orgon goes back on his word to valare and in turn promises his daughter to Tartuffe. Orgon even throws his son out of the house when he tries to tell Orgon about Tartuffe's attempts to seduce his wife. Orgon wont hear any of it and tells Damis to leave. Orgon is completely ... better than his son and even his own wife. When Orgon returned from his trip he was more worried about Tartuffe than his ill wife. Then we begin to realize that Tartuffe's attitude is just a mask. In reality Tartuffe is trying to seduce Orgon's wife and wants to take over the household. He p...

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... accepted by mot of Orgon's family members, he continues to live in their house through Orgon's patronage. This indicates that Tartuffe already controls the household through Orgon's power. Tartuffe is not an example of a religious believer, but an example of a religious hypocrite. Moliere's Tartuffe is a play emphasizing stubbornness, deceit, reputation, integrity, and the ability to be blinded by something that we see as ... it can be deceiving. Simply making a positive judgment of a person's personality based on his or her outlook can also affect one's life deeply. This is what happen...

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