512 reviews for:

Tartuffe

Molière

3.55 AVERAGE

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Thanks deux ex machina
funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Notes from a class in 1994 where I read this:

A high comedy or Comedy of Maners - which began in the 17th Century. 1st age to produce a society of cultivated, educated people who had leisure time, human relations and to the forms and manners that make a society possible.

Presents social pattern of a correct world. There is reason, control and conformity on society and not on the individual. Plots are highly ordered and controlled.

Theme: Degree to which people are driven by their own obsessions to be blind to the needs of others.

Social Conventions: Father would have absolute power over daughters marriages. Deus ex Machina = God of the machine - King sets things right.

Interesting to see my old notes.

Interesting story. I really felt the frustration of the family.

4 stars but maybe it should be more?

Accessible and yet so genius. Moliére is the king of insulting you with compliments
funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes