Describe the character of Orgon. Why do you think he’s so vulnerable to Tartuffe?
There are many denigrating traits that can be given to Orgon. After carefully thinking about the right way to describe him I would say that Orgon is a dreamer, unexperienced, ingenious and at the same time a strict dictator to those who don’t follow his beliefs. In most parts of the play we can see Orgon falling for Tartuffe’s lies. He rejected his own family just so Tartuffe would be in peace and unbothered. Orgon was willing to arrange a marriage between Tartuffe and his daughter Mariane with the purpose of making Tartuffe family, and Orgon also kicked out his son Damis accusing him of traitor for saying that Tartuffe was in love with his wife; which was true. I think Orgon is vulnerable to Tartuffe because he seems him as his salvation, as his keys to heaven. He believes Tartuffe will guide him to God and make all his suffering vanish.
Yet, at the end Orgon could see the real man Tartuffe was and that his family was always right about him, so, now he has experience with hypocrite people and will not fall into their lies again.
