Tartuffe is a masked character, putting on a false front. He is able to deceive Orgon into believing he is a holy man with all pure intentions. “He used to come into our church each day and humbly kneel nearby, and start to pray. He’d draw the eyes of everybody there by the deep fervor of his heartfelt prayer: He’d sigh and weep, and sometimes with a sound of rapture he would bend and kiss the ground,” (Muliére 283-288). However, in the end of play, he is fully unmasked to all characters, when the truth about who he truly is is revealed. “The man’s ingratitude is unparalleled. I save a wretched pauper from starvation, house him, and treat him like a blood relation, shower him every day with my largesse, give him my daughter, and all that I possess; and meanwhile the unconscionable knave tries to induce my wife to misbehave…now threatens me with my own liberality, and aims, by taking base advantage of the gifts I gave him out of Christian love,” (Muliére 74-82). Orgon, as well as Madam Pernelle, are unable to perceive the reality of Tartuffe. Therefore, they are constantly praising the hypocrite on the false image that Tartuffe is portraying to
Tartuffe is a masked character, putting on a false front. He is able to deceive Orgon into believing he is a holy man with all pure intentions. “He used to come into our church each day and humbly kneel nearby, and start to pray. He’d draw the eyes of everybody there by the deep fervor of his heartfelt prayer: He’d sigh and weep, and sometimes with a sound of rapture he would bend and kiss the ground,” (Muliére 283-288). However, in the end of play, he is fully unmasked to all characters, when the truth about who he truly is is revealed. “The man’s ingratitude is unparalleled. I save a wretched pauper from starvation, house him, and treat him like a blood relation, shower him every day with my largesse, give him my daughter, and all that I possess; and meanwhile the unconscionable knave tries to induce my wife to misbehave…now threatens me with my own liberality, and aims, by taking base advantage of the gifts I gave him out of Christian love,” (Muliére 74-82). Orgon, as well as Madam Pernelle, are unable to perceive the reality of Tartuffe. Therefore, they are constantly praising the hypocrite on the false image that Tartuffe is portraying to