What an adventure I had. Loved going back to the 1600's seeing all the people and those plays. What incredible comedies Moliere produced. Thinking back, our plays today have some of the same aspects of Moliere's plays from way back then. My favorite play Fiddler on the Roof portrays a religious family slowly changing and adapting to the new age living realizing they no longer live in a tiny community filled with only people of Jewish faith. In Tartuffe we see a man, Orgon, bullying his family into following his orders since he believes it is what God wants. At many points in the story we see Demis try to convince Orgon to allow his daughter to marry Valere and not Tartuffe. In some ways he does change even though it is mainly due to the fact that Tartuffe is a religious hypocrite who tried to ruin the family; but, from seeing how the man he trusted and chose as a son-in-law was actually a horrible man I hope the character would realize that what he thinks is best is not always what is best.
Another way that Moliere's plays are similar to today's plays is how exaggerated he portrays his characters. In Les Precieuses Ridicules. In many comedy movies and plays today the writers create characters who are off the wall crazy or extravagant. The audience, however, still relates to these characters realizing that they can see themselves in the character. The exaggerated part of the character adds to the comedy making the audience member laugh about themselves even more. For example, during Les Precieuses Ridicules I could picture myself talking with my friends as a little girl about my dream boy, what they were going to do, how they would propose and so on. When I heard how detailed Magdelon was in her explanation to her father I could not stop laughing. All I could think about was myself as a little girl doing the same thing. In the musical Hairpsray almost all of the characters are exaggerated in some way. The mom is played by a man giving her a more masculine aura about her which heavyset moms can sometimes portray. Traci is rambunctious and her love for Link is so embellished that you just laugh thinking about the boys you may have had googly eyes for when you were young. The exaggerations make the characters and Moliere showed that in almost all of his comedies.
-Alyssa
Another way that Moliere's plays are similar to today's plays is how exaggerated he portrays his characters. In Les Precieuses Ridicules. In many comedy movies and plays today the writers create characters who are off the wall crazy or extravagant. The audience, however, still relates to these characters realizing that they can see themselves in the character. The exaggerated part of the character adds to the comedy making the audience member laugh about themselves even more. For example, during Les Precieuses Ridicules I could picture myself talking with my friends as a little girl about my dream boy, what they were going to do, how they would propose and so on. When I heard how detailed Magdelon was in her explanation to her father I could not stop laughing. All I could think about was myself as a little girl doing the same thing. In the musical Hairpsray almost all of the characters are exaggerated in some way. The mom is played by a man giving her a more masculine aura about her which heavyset moms can sometimes portray. Traci is rambunctious and her love for Link is so embellished that you just laugh thinking about the boys you may have had googly eyes for when you were young. The exaggerations make the characters and Moliere showed that in almost all of his comedies.
-Alyssa