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Slide 1: Moliere Jean Baptiste Poquelin 1622-1673
Slide 2: Farce Exaggerated personality traits Improbable comic situations Extreme behavior Slapstick Unbelievable resolution
Slide 3: A Study of Human Nature Although his characters are often mere types, Moliere’s plays investigate human nature. Are people by nature good and noble or greedy, small minded, and brutal?
Slide 4: Absolutist Theater Louis 14 fixes everything. Perhaps Moliere is suggesting that human nature is so corrupt that it needs a strong power– like an absolute monarch– to keep it in check. (Hobbes) Or maybe he is just showing Louis what he wants to see.



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