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In seven pages, this paper focuses on the theme of religious hypocrisy that is explored in Moliere’s (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) seventeenth-century satirical play. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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of man (Crocker 576). After the disorder and chaos of the previous century, individuals were ready for a return to an orderly existence. They looked to science for
answers and believed it would explain both the universe and mans place in it. This became known as "The Age of Enlightenment." A. Definition The European Enlightenment officially
lasted from 1687 until the French Revolution in 1789. It has been described as a period of "critical rationalism" in which its purpose was "freeing the world from a
morass of falsehood" (Crocker 575). Simply defined, the Age of Enlightenment was, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (qtd. in Crocker 575). B.
How Neoclassicism Spread throughout the World and the Different Effects It Had (France) Neoclassicism was not so much a new worldview as it was a return to the older,
classical values that had defined the great societies of Greece and Rome. At the time, the Roman Catholic Church exerted a powerful influence on French society, and were a
force with which the monarchy had to reckon with whether it wanted to or not. After a period of prolonged warfare between Catholics and Protestants (then called Huguenots by
the French), church and state were "imperfectly and precariously united" despite deep divisions in faith and governing (Cardullo 173). In French neoclassicism, order was restored by two separate factions
- the Catholic regime of Cardinal Richelieu (later Cardinal Mazarin) and the regime of Louis XIV, also known as "The Sun King." In his literary criticism of Tartuffe, Robert
Cardullo believes it should be categorized as a "(neo)classical comedy" because its conclusion "satisfies our sense of justice and restores order" (176). The antagonist and title character Tartuffe is
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