Tuesdays post

Tartuffe 2.1 and 2.2

So Orgon decides to basically hand his daughter over to Tartuffe and break of her marriage with Valere. I understand this is the way of the time, but come on. I get that Orgon has his bro-mance with Tartuffe, but to marry him to his young sautéed when he is an old priest? That's kind of nasty. And, catholic priests I though didn't get married! I'm confused.

But thank god for Dorine. I feel like a reacuring theme in this play is that the servants have this better understanding of morals, and are better at calling out people's mistakes. I would have reacted exactly as Dorine did. It drove me insane that Mariane did nothing!! She barely spoke for all of 2.2, while she let Dorine hash it out with her dad. I get it's kind of disrespectful but say SOMETHING! does she really have no comment about marrying some 60-70 year old guy?? Obviously not, but she says nothing.doesn't fight for her marriage to someone who will make her happy or anything.

I'm wondering why Dorine chose to speak against Orgon so harshly. Why was she standing up against her "master"/employer? For her lady? Maybe she just sees it as wrong? I'm not sure, but I liked all the points she made, and it was almost comical when she would be sarcastic toward Orgon's demands to be quiet, she's the only person so far in this play to show that she has balls!

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Today I paid attention while we learned about comedia del arte. I actually found it interesting, more so than Shakespeare history, because I've never herd about comedia before now. And I enjoyed learning about the raked stage and dimensional set pieces. I also read Tartuffe, and thought of some thesis ideas for Fuente and Tartuffe.