in Moliere’s‚ Tartuffe‚ exemplifies the idea of ignorance‚ due to the fact he is ignorant of Tartuffe’s true character. DORINE: “There was that headache Madame had the day you left. Well‚ it got really bad. She had a fever”. ORGON: “And Tartuffe?" DORINE: “He’s fine- Rosy nose and red cheeked‚ drinking your wine.” ORGON: “Poor Man!”(1.4.8-14). Although Orgon hears news about his ill wife‚ he only shows his care towards Tartuffe. He also fails to recognize that Tartuffe is tricking them
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religious leaders fit this bill. The Shankaracharya case in Tamilnadu‚ the Abhaya case in Kerala is all examples of the moral and spiritual bankruptcy of religious leaders. Bangladeshi writer‚ Taslima Nasreen has also accused the Muslim clergy of hypocrisy. Then there are the people who abuse women and children‚ the most vulnerable sections of society. Husbands drink and abuse their wives. Sometimes they kill them for dowry. Fathers abuse their minor daughters. Teachers abuse their innocent students
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Well‚ one of my biggest pet peeves is double standards or hypocrites. It really bothers me when people say one thing and with their actions do the exact opposite. In the book King Leopold’s Ghost‚ there are three characters that display the most hypocrisy‚ King Leopold‚ Henry Morton Stanley and Colonel George Washington Williams. The biggest hypocrite of the three was King Leopold himself in the colonization of the Congo. One would think that a newly formed country that was once under rule of many
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learned to accept and cope with it in ways that most teenagers do not understand. Holden and Christopher also know and understand the importance of independence‚ and have had to learn to care for themselves and make wise choices from a young age. Hypocrisy is also a common theme between both Holden and Christopher‚ and due to this they have gotten themselves into stressful situations causing them to make rash and bad decisions. Due to their pasts‚ both boys experience rebellion as an everyday event
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“The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart‚ gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.” – David Foster Wallace. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini‚ included lessons that gave readers a glimpse of what life is like as one grows older. As we progress through the book‚ we see how the relationship between servant and masters looks like. The relationship between Baba and Ali‚ and‚ Amir and Hassan‚ really captures the essence of how hypocritical and ironic
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controversial in his extreme religious settings. Tartuffe was written in mid-17th century France‚ a time where the Catholic Church and royalty were the only true deciding factors in creativity presented to the public. Tartuffe presented characters that were outside the norm and created hypocrisy against the church. The only thing that truly saved him was the king who fought for him and protected Molière on more than one occasion. Thorough out Tartuffe‚ Moliere has presented us with characters that
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Holden and Society J. D. Salinger’s notable and esteemed novel‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ reflects the hypercritical views of a troubled teenager‚ Holden Caulfield‚ towards everyone around him and society itself. This character has a distinguished vision of a world where morality‚ principles‚ intelligence‚ purity‚ and naivety should override money‚ sex‚ and power‚ but clearly in the world he inhabits these qualities have been exiled. Holder desperately clings to and regards innocence as one of the most
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difference in and is able to touch the life of other leading to a positive outcome. When it comes to Tartuffe‚ the true heroes were the king‚ Dorine‚ Elmire‚ Damis‚ and Cleante. They are my heroes in this literary work because they see right through the hypocrite‚ false Tartuffe and expose him. Thus Dorine says‚ “You see him as a saint. I’m far less awed; In fact‚ I see right through him. He’s a fraud.” (Tartuffe‚ 1.1.23). Unlike Madam Pernell and Orgon‚ the others were never quite fooled. “Good God! Do you
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1st Quarter Writing Performance Assessment: Narrative Composition DUE ON OCTOBER 21ST. BRING IT SAVED ON A FLASH DRIVE OR SAVE IT ON Google Drive. Writing a Narrative composition appeals to one of humankind’s basic instincts‚ the impulse to share stories. Sometimes the aim of the story-teller is simply to entertain‚ to provide a moment of escape from the business of the day or the horrors of the night‚ but sometimes the aim of the story-teller is to instruct‚ to help others in their understanding
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horrible portrayal of jealousy‚ using horrid language. It is contradictory of his jealousy when he attempts to sell his wife to Volpone. WOB- she says her husbands are jealous of her and she pretends that she is jealous of them to please them. Hypocrisy Volpone- saying one thing for effect and feeling another. Corvino goes on about his honour but is then prepared to prostitute his wife for money. His underlying greed
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