In the first Act, the way Madame Pernelle criticizes the other members is really scary. She tries to use the tactic what most people do to others: gossip or tell all people's sins. She makes them look like sinners while making Tartuffe as a saint. She calls out Dorine for talking too much, Damis for bring a dunce, Mariane for pretending to be innocent and pure, Elmire for bad behavior, and Cléante for taking worldly advice (Act 1, lines 7-40). What I see is that she is just constantly confessing their sins rather than helping their sins. She refuses to listen to other people's opinions, conserving her own beliefs about Tartuffe. Instead of trying to figure out if Tartuffe is a good man, she accepts her own beliefs and become deceived of what…show more content… It relates to 21st-century Christianity or American Christianity for that matter. We try to claim we are Christians, but it becomes hypocrisy when the sins and deeds we do has not matched up with our words. When our words and deeds do not link together, it causes many problems for non-believers to even discover the believers’ intention to become godly. In any case about we are godly, I think we put our own definition of godliness that does not reflect God’s definition of godliness. Even for Orgon, he has been blinded due to Tartuffe’s impression of godliness that he cannot see through the lens of both his good side and bad side. When Orgon looked only on the good side, he had an incomplete representation of Tartuffe. However, it does not apply to the other characters (Dorine, Damis, Mariane, Ellmire, and Cléante) because they already know what kind of man Tartuffe is to…show more content… If a play wants to make judgments about religion or other stuff, would not God do the same? God sees all us, laughing when we try to fool him to think that our lives are “godly” and “holy”. What I think is that like Molière and Shakespeare, God will just one day open our lives to show how hypocritical we have become. In the end, Tartufee got arrested for making crimes that mostly people did not know, shedding light into a character who almost fooled them. In the same way, we cannot fool God that we are his people when we do not act like it. The truth comes out to spread light to those who seek the truth about a person or
