Tartuffe: Gullible And Naïve Toward His Family

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In the story, Tartuffe a man by the name of Orgon is very gullible and naïve towards his family. He is wrapped around Tartuffe’s finger and does whatever he demands. Tartuffe is a hypocrite that uses people to get what he wants. He has a way of getting inside people’s mind and making them believe his every word. However, Orgon’s family knows the kind of man he is and tries to warn Orgon about him, but he does not listen. It is not long after Orgon finds out the kind of man Tartuffe is when he hears him hitting on his wife. Tartuffe has power over Orgon, because he is easily convinced to do whatever he want.
Orgon believed that if he followed Tartuffe instructions, he would get him into heaven. Orgon was not always this gullible it was something that made him become this way. Orgon states, “Yes, I was changed after I talked …show more content…

Tartuffe was more focused on his lifestyle and not the kind of man he was. Perhaps if Tartuffe was not such a hypocrite he could have asked Orgon to show him how to take care of a family or how to get rich and make money of his own. Greedy people only act on stupidity instead of actually thinking things out. Orgon could have made Tartuffe into a rich man, but Tartuffe wanted to manipulate Orgon instead.
Tartuffe grew up differently from Orgon so morals were something he lacked. He does not know how to love, trust, or to be genuine to people. He has to get everything out of life on his own and by himself. This says a lot about his family and how he was raised. One could guess that he did not grow up with his parents or did not have a close relationship with them.
If Tartuffe was open and honest about the person he was Orgon would have still help him and it would have eliminated the tension between Orgon and his family. Instead, Tartuffe lied and got into Orgon’s head. Tartuffe would have had an honest friend if only he could tell the

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