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Le Misanthrope All Quotes Flashcards

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Alceste - exaggeration but also honesty. He’d hang himself if he wasn’t sincere. (I)

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Je m’irais, de regret, pendre tout à l’instant

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Alceste - describing how he wants to get angry and not listen (I)

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Je veux me fâcher et ne veux point entendre

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Alceste on honesty and ‘homme d’honneur’ (I)

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Je veux qu’on… on ne lâche aucun mot qui ne parte du cœur

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Alceste’s vanity (I)

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Je veux qu’on me distingue

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Alceste says people always just express their feelings as… (society, honesty) (I)

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Vains compliments

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Philinte’s opposition to Alceste, shows his conforming nature (raisonneur) but recognition of society’s imperfection (I)

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Quand on est du monde, il faut bien qu’on le rende quelques dehors civils que l’usage demande

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Alceste’s vanity and hatred of society (I)

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Que je serais fâché d’être sage à leurs yeux

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Alceste’s miasantrhopy (I)

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Je hais tous les hommes

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Philinte’s opposition to Alceste about human nature (I)

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Faisons un peu grâce à la nature humaine

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Alceste to Oronte, friendship and that we should only say we’re friends when we mean it (I)

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Profaner le nom que de vouloir le mettre à toute occasion

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Oronte wants Alceste’s truthfulness… (I)

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C’est que je demande

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Alceste not fully committing to the truth when dealing with Oronte - hypocrisy. Repetition three times for comedy. (I)

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Je ne dis pas cela

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Finally Alceste tells Oronte what he thinks of the sonnet (I)

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Il est bon à mettre au cabinet

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Alceste asking C to give a show of love (II)

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Faire expliquer votre âme

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Célimène needs to impress Acaste and Clitandre for her court case (II)

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Il m’a promis, il peut intéresser tout ce qu’il a d’amis

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Célimène identifies Alceste’s jealousy (II)

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De tous l’univers vous devenez jaloux

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Alceste complains that she sees too many men (II)

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C’est que tous l’univers est bien reçu de vous

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Alceste doesn’t want to love Célimène (against his nature) (II)

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Faut-il que je vous aime?

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Alceste swearing, crude

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Parbleu; non, madame, non; O Ciel

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C snappy to Alceste (II)

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Taisez-vous

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Clitandre encourages Celimene in the Scène de Portraits (II)

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Timante encor, Madame, est un bon caractère

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Celimene’s portrait of Alceste - accurate. She’s canny (II)

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Il prend toujours en main l’opinion contraire

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C says that Alceste is a contrarian in her portrait - childish

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L’esprit contrariant

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Alceste: Love is being truthful (II)

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Plus on aime quelqu’un, moins il faut qu’on le flatte

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Éliante: Love is loving other’s imperfections

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Dans l’objet aimé tout devient aimable

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Alceste won’t leave until C+A have - childish, controlling, obnoxious (II)

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Je ne sors qu’après que vous serez sortis

27
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Acaste is arrogant and in a high position (III)

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Fort aimé du beau sexe, et bien auprès du maître

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Exaggeration, contrasts Acaste’s arrogance and happiness. About Celimene’s rejection. (III)

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Il faut que je me pende

29
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C on Arsinoe (III)

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Abandonné de tous

30
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Comic bathos in Arsinoe’s entrance from C (III)

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Elle est impertinente au suprême degré (Enter Arsionoe) Quel heureux sort en ce lieu vous amène

31
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Arsinoe attacking Celimene in a passive aggressive way (III)

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Il est des choses dans la vie qu’on ne peut excuser

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Arsinoe attacking Celimene in a passive aggressive way (III)

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Il est des choses dans la vie qu’on ne peut excuser

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Celimene responds to Arsinoe, being truthful - like Alceste? (III)

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Votre pruderie et vos éclats de zéle

33
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Alceste has secret charms according to Arsinoe (as a result of his sincerity?) (III)

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Des charmes secrets

34
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Alceste dismisses Arsinoe’s offers saying he won’t be good in court since his greatest talent is being sincere and frank (III)

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Être franc et sincère est mon plus grand talent

35
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Arsinoe claims to have evidence of Celimene’s infidelity (III)

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Je vous ferai voir une preuve fidèle de l’infidélité

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Alceste’s honesty is noble and heroic for Eliante. She also has feelings for him. (IV)

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De noble et d’héroïque

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Eliante tells Philinte that she is interested in Alceste (IV)

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Mon coeur pour elle [his ‘tendresse’] s’intéresse

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Philinte tells Eliante that he’s interested in her and would want her if he gets with Celimene (IV)

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J’attends l’occasion de m’offrir

39
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Alceste’s exaggeration at reading Celimene’s letter (IV)

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Je suis assassiné

40
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Alceste offers to marry Eliante as revenge for Celimene (IV)

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Je peux prendre vengeance d’elle

41
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Following Alceste’s tirade of insults Celiemene’s witty (IV)

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Voilà certainement des douceurs que j’admire

42
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The fact that Celimene kept pretending to be inerested in Alceste makes the letter to Oronte worse - if she’d just rejected him straight off it would have been better. (IV)

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Mais d’un aveu trompeur voir ma flamme applaudie, c’est une trahison, c’est une perfidie

43
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C’s honesty to Alceste (similar to him). Also turns his anger against him. (IV)

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Vous êtes, sans mentir, un grand extravagant

44
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Alceste wants to stop loving Celimene but can’t (IV)

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[My heart is too cowardly] pour ne pouvoir briser la chaîne qui l’attache

45
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Alceste wishes Celimene was ugly and hated so he could redeem her (IV)

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Afin que de mon coeur l’éclatant sacrifice vous pût d’un pareil sort réparer l’injustice

46
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Oronte is Alceste’s enemy. (V)

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Mon plus grand adversaire

47
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Philinte appreciates society’s corruption but gives a positive solution to it - raisonneur. (V)

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Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent dans la vie des moyens d’exercer notre philosophie

48
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Alceste compares society to wolves - Hobbesian idea. (V)

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(Live) en vrais loups

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Oronte mirrors Alceste in his complaints to C - are they therefore justified? (V)

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Il me faut de votre âme une pleine assurance

50
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Celimene is vain and diplomatic when they demand a confession of her love (V)

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[Expressions of love] Ne se doivent point dire en présence des gens

51
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Eliante likes honest people - is she conforming to Alceste or is she just agreeing with him. (V)

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Je suis pour les gens qui disent leur pensée

52
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Celimene finds Alceste amusing but irritating a lot of the time. (V)

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Il me divertit quelquefois avec ses brusqueries… (but often) je le trouve le plus fâcheux du monde

53
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Acaste and Clitandre are upset and will ruin Celimene’s reputation (Clitandre’s line) (V)

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[Go everywhere and] montrer de votre coeur le portrait glorieux

54
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Oronte, Acaste and Clitandre all give up Celimene. Even a hint of camaraderie among them? (Oronte’s line) (V)

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Je ne fais plus d’obstacle à votre flamme

55
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Celimene accepts she’s wrong and is humbled - contrast to when Oronte’s letter is revealed (V)

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J’ai tort, je le confesse… vous avez sujet de me haïr

56
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Alceste is willing to blame her actions on the vice of the day and her youth (perhaps she was indoctrinated?) (V)

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Le vice du temps porte votre jeunesse

57
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Celimene rejects Alceste’s offer to go to the desert but offers her hand in marriage (V)

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La solitude effraye une âme de vingt ans… si le don de ma main peut contenter vos voeux

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Alceste rejects Celimene (V)

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Je vous refuse

59
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Eliante asks for Philinte (V)

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[Philinte] la pourrait accepter [hand in marriage]

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