Similarities Between A Midsummer Night's Dream And Tartuffe

The two plays that will be compared and contrasted are Tartuffe by Jean Baptiste Moliere and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Both plays will be compared upon their characters and the themes that were demonstrated throughout the play. Along with these discussions, both plays will be compared upon their genres and social context. A brief summary of the plays will also be given in this discussion. The breakdown of Tartuffe and A Midsummer Night’s Dream will give a better understanding of how these plays are similar and different. The play Tartuffe by Jean Baptiste Moliere is about Tartuffe, a hypocrite, who acquires what he wants by deceiving Orgon. Since Orgon was ignorant to his son Damis, he ends up believing Tartuffe instead of his son. Orgon then disinherits his son’s wealth and gives this to Tartuffe the hypocrite. Although Mariane, Orgon’s

The similarities between the both is that Orgon from Tartuffe and Egues from A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream is that they live in wealthy lives. This is one reason why Tartuffe wanted Orgon’s riches. Egues on the other hand is showed to have close relations with the duke of Athens named Theseus. Only person of high rank would be able to communicate and have close relations to a duke. The women on both plays were very similar because of how the males had to choose for them on who they needed to love without having them the right to choose. Tartuffe is a comedy play because of the personalities of the characters and also A Midsummer’s Night Dream because of the confusion of the lovers by magic. The differences between the plays is that the authors were from different periods during the time. William Shakespeare would be an Elizabethan playwright and Jean Baptiste Moliere would be from the French Classical. Similarly, these authors were popular producers of plays during their