Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere's Tartuffe is an epic play of hypocrisy, betrayal, and the tale of a foolish mind. Moliere's choice of protagonist in this play happens to be the most blatantly ignorant character in the play. Orgon is naive to the villain Tartuffe's hypocritical ways, makes a complete dunce of himself by uplifting Tartuffe as holy, and failing to pick up the abundance of clues of Tartuffe being fake. Analyzing this character is rather interesting and at the same time frustrating to read of someone so ignorant that they fail to see the wolf hiding under the sheep clothing. A fool is a fool unless they open their eyes to see the truth, and it took Orgon the majority of the play to realize the truth.
Orgon's ignorance began to show when he arrived home to ask about his family "Dorine, Your wife two days ago had a bad fever, and a fierce headache which refused to leave her. Orgon Ah. And Tartuffe?"( Moliere (24). He didn't not care that his wife was sick but only worried about the holy Tartuffe and his well being. There was one character who wasn't even a main part of the play, but the Prince being "A prince who sees into our inmost hearts, and can't be fooled by any tricksters arts" (Moliere 66), persevered and came through for Orgon's mistakes and granted his property back to him and let him learn from his stupidity. Orgon was naive enough to think that Tartuffe was holy enough to see sins that no one could expect. Cleante was amazed at his brothers ignorance and ecided to try to state the obvious to try to take the shutters off of Organs eyes saying "There's a vast difference, so it seems to me, Between true piety and hypocrisy: How do you fail to see it, may I ask? Is not a face quite different from ...
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...ons weak traits were revealed and Tartuffe's haughtiness showed "You needn't try to provoke me; it's no use. Those who serve heaven must expect abuse"( Moliere 65). At this mere moment Orgon had nothing, and was going to jail. Orgon's character was directly portrayed as an dynamic character that had to learn through his ignorant mistakes. Orgon's naive views taught him a lesson about hypocrites, and believing in one person to view all of mankind's every worldly move to be a downfall in God's eyes. In the end he goes back and keeps his promise to his friend to marry his daughter, and thanks the Prince for seeing through the faced of the terrible Tartuffe.
Works Cited
Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. " Tartuffe." The Norton Anthology of Western Literature: The Enlightenment Through the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2, 8th ed. Gen. Ed. Sarah Lawall. 1664
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