Jean-Baptiste Moliere was both an actor and director of the theater. But he is best known to us as a comedian. The repertoire of hunger forced Monsieur Poklen (family name) to take up the pen. The forty-two-year-old writer, having already become a famous and recognized royal court, ventured to present a caustic social pamphlet to the theatrical performance, parodying the hypocrisy of the sophistry of the French clergy.
Moliere's plot plot
An attempt to play a work in the theater failed only five years later. This article is its summary. “Tartuffe” has a rather prosaic plot: resolving circumstances that impede the wedding of Marianne, the daughter of the owner of the house (Orgon), and her beloved Valera. (The brother of Marianne Damis, in turn, is in love with Valera’s sister). The whole intrigue is “twisted” around the main character - Tartuffe, who is staying in the house. Outwardly, he is a young, educated, pious person, prone to high deeds. In reality, having a criminal past, Tartuffe has a whole bunch of “virtues”: chronic deceit, the rare ability to weave an unbroken chain of fraud. But the highlight of the image of a fraudster is professional mimicry - imitation of the sermons of a clergyman. Moliere brilliantly presented the audience with this “explosive cocktail”. Only theatrical performance can give a full picture of comedy, for a bad mirror for the irony of the great Frenchman is a summary without emotion. "Tartuffe" Moliere for more than 350 years led the hits of theater seasons.
The dodger manages to twist Orgon to such an extent that he decides to cancel the wedding with Valera and marry his daughter to Tartuffe. But the fraudster’s goal is to take over the whole house and fortune. He also has influence over Ms. Pernell, the mother of the landlord.
Moliere shows the deceiver, deliberately without resorting to a tricky lace of lies. He is so sure of the failure-free effect of his prudish pseudo-moral on simpletons, which often acts simply “in the clumsy”.
Comedy characters
Summary of "Tartuffe" tells not only about the villains and the fooled. The wife of Oregon, Elmira Dorin - quite sober-minded lady, characterized by a calm disposition and self-control. However, she is flirty and secular. Tartuffe openly drags after her, at the opportunity, inviting a pretty housewife to make love to him. She refuses, threatening to betray a hypocrite, and then tries to beat the fraudster by offering him his silence in exchange for his refusal to marry Marianna.
The idea of the mother is inadvertently destroyed by the young and hot son Damis, overhearing and passing its contents to his father - Oregon. Naive! Tartuffe does not cost anything to convince the owner of the house, a simpleton, in the elevation of his feelings and actions. He, fooled, drives out his son in anger, having promised all the property due to him to a fraudster.
Minor images also add their emphasis to the summary of Tartuffe. Acute antipathy to a scammer distinguishes the maid Dorin. Moliere attributes to her one of the most pointed statements. Cleant, Elmira’s brother, according to Moliere’s plan, presents with his decency a contrast to the fraudster Tartuffe. He first tries to persuade Tartuffe to abandon the marriage with Marianne, then convinces Damis not to beat the fraudster, since it is preferable to follow the mind.
However, despite all the antipathy and opposition accompanying it, Tartuffe’s plan moves “as if by notes”. It's about the wedding. Even if something is upset, the fooled Oregon copied all his property to him. In addition, he has compromising evidence in his hands - a secret chest with sensitive letters for him that was handed over to him by the free will of the host of the house. In addition, he bribed the bailiff Loyal (Moliere’s irony is clear here: “loyal” is translated from French as “justice”).
Climax
Summary of Tartuffe is approaching its climax. Under the circumstances, Elmira has to go all-in. She convinces the fooled spouse to hide under the table during her conversation with Tartuffe. He is convinced of the sanctity and decency of the latter, but agrees with his wife.
Elmira, however, pretended to confess his love, but the villain as a guarantee of refusal from the wedding with his daughter wishes closeness with his stepmother. This finally opens the eyes of Oregon, and he kicks the trickster out of the house.
But according to the documents, the house is already in the ownership of Tartuffe. To Mr. Oregon is the bailiff Loyal with a prescription containing a requirement - to vacate housing by tomorrow. However, to ruin, the scoundrel seemed a little, wanting to finally destroy the owner of the house, he sends the secret casket to the king with letters testifying to the help of the rebel brother. The monarch acts wisely, first determining the identity of the complainant. The amazed Tartuffe, who had come gloatingly with the royal officer to enjoy the arrest of Oregon, was arrested himself.
Conclusion
Thus, the comedy Moliere "Tartuffe", called by our classic Alexander Pushkin brilliant, ends with the traditional happy ending, and even exaltation of the king’s wisdom. Like Shakespeare, the power of the writer’s talent combined in this man with devotion and service to the Theater. Contemporaries believed that Moliere’s talent blossomed because he had the Gift - to see “something extraordinary” in every person.