French Enlightenment Drama - Moliere, Tartuffe Flashcards

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It’s as if you’d think you’d never find. Reason and the sacred intertwined

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Cleante

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He’s taught me to love nothing and no one! Mother, father, wife or daughter, son — they could die right now, I’d feel no pain

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Orgon

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He thinks things that a Christian would abhor / its from free thinking that all evils stem. / no wonder, then, at church, I don’t see him

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Orgon

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Each daughter much choose always to say yes / to what her father wants, no more and no less. / if he wants to give her an ape to marry, / then she must do it, without a query

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Dorine

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Q

But men like me burn with a silent flame, / our secrets safe, our loves we never name, / because our reputation are our wealth, / when we transgress, its with the utmost stealth

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Tartuffe

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Q

Our Prince of Reason sees things as they are, / so hypocrites will not get very far

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Said by the exempt

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