Tartuffe the RAT.....

So I finished reading "Tartuffe" by Moliere for drama class, and all I can say is: What a SNAKE!!!! What could've occurred because of misleading foolish, blind Orgon is stopped in its tracks by the end of the story, but Tartuffe is an example of those "friends" who can't be trusted. He had turned Orgon against his entire family and gotten him to sign over his estate to him, as well as promise him the hand of his lovely daughter Mariane (who balks at the suggestion that she should marry Tartuffe, for she is in love with Valere and hopes to marry him instead). When Tartuffe makes a pass at Elmire, Orgon's wife, their son Damis angrily confronts Tartuffe and tells Orgon what has taken place. True to form, however, Orgon refuses to believe that his good friend--indeed, his spiritual brother--could do such a thing, and Damis is disinherited and dismissed.

Elmire talks with Orgon and tells him that Damis was telling the truth, and she gets Orgon to witness Tartuffe's treachery and deception firsthand. When Orgon angrily confronts Tartuffe, Tartuffe turns on him and tells him that there's really nothing that he can do about it, since he's just about signed his life away to him. Orgon, overcome with guilt and, no doubt, hurt, wonders how he could've been so easily duped by a character like Tartuffe. So what happens to Tartuffe in the end? Well, you'll just have to read the story, won't you? I can't give it ALL away, but let's just say that everyone gets what they deserve. ;)