Tartuffe

Topic

Tartuffe

Instructions

These are essentially reviews, asking you to assess 1) the intention of the author, 2) the intention of the director, and 3) how you feel the production is or is not relevant to 2017.

For part 1, you will be expected to provide evidence for your arguments cited directly from the play texts, and from whatever scholarship you can find on other plays written by the author or written about the author. For Part 2, you will be expected to provide evidence directly from the films seen in class, citing specific images of acting style, costumes, set, etc.

Answer preview

The author of Tartuffe intends to educate the readers on the various aspects of deception that can lead people to the wrong direction in life. The book provides an insight on the manner in which a single individual can ruin the life of other people due to their greed, and they only manage to achieve this through deception.  The author manages to portray this theme by looking in depth in the life of Tartuffe, who is an individual who changes his name severally in order to deceiving people by pretending to be so good.  However, with time people around him realize the kind of person that he is and eventually caught in his own deception.

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