French Enlightenment Drama - Moliere, Tartuffe Flashcards
It’s as if you’d think you’d never find. Reason and the sacred intertwined
Cleante
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
Orgon
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
Orgon
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
Dorine
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
Tartuffe
Our Prince of Reason sees things as they are, / so hypocrites will not get very far
Said by the exempt