1. Woman in Literature - The Perpetual Victims
She goes to any length to try and win his affections and in so doing unwittingly causes the death of her friend in the attempts to please him. ... She plays the victim in order to convince her husband of Tartuffe's trickery, she consorts with Tartuffe to secure her daughters marriage; she does whatever is in her power to do for the greater good regardless of how it may affect her or make her feel. ... Mariane plays the daughter of Elmire in Tartuffe; she is a submissive girl willing to do whatever it takes to please her father even if it breaks her heart. She reluctantly agrees to break o...
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