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Discuss Orgon’s wealth and position in society by using quotes from the play (there are many references throughout). You must explain what the quotes tell us about Orgon and his family.

Tartuffe paper Fall 2020 Martin Puchner, “Money speaks, in Orgon’s society as in ours; possession of wealth implies total control over others [. . . .] Tartuffe’s monstrous lust, for women, money, power, genuinely endangers the social structure” (305). Artistotle believe that the ability to reason is a characteristic of humans and that true happiness […]