The Misanthrope and Tartuffe by Richard Wilbur

The Misanthrope and Tartuffe by Richard Wilbur

Author:Richard Wilbur [Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin De]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2016-09-03T04:00:00+00:00


He pets and pampers him with love more tender

Than any pretty mistress could engender....

It also involves, in the strict sense of the word, idolatry: Orgon's febrile religious emotions are all related to Tartuffe and appear to terminate in him. Finally, and least consciously, Orgon cherishes Tartuffe because, with the sanction of the latter's austere precepts, he can tyrannize over his family and punish them for possessing what he feels himself to be losing: youth, gaiety, strong natural desires. This punitive motive comes to the surface, looking like plain sadism, when Orgon orders his daughter to



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