Tartuffe By Molière Study Help Essay Questions

1. What factors account for Orgon's devotion to Tartuffe?

2. What is gained by having Tartuffe appear for the first time in the third act?

3. Why do Orgon's comments on religion create such a sense of absurdity?

4. How is Dorine indispensable to the plot of the play? How would the play be affected if her part were omitted?

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Upon leaving Orgon’s house, Madame Pernelle