STEP ONE –
WHILE HEAD-OF-THE-HOUSEHOLD ORGON IS AWAY, HIS MOTHER MADAME PARNELLE TELLS THE HOUSEHOLD THEY ARE IMMORAL AND ARE GOING TO HELL…
UNLESS THEY LISTEN TO THEIR HOUSE-GUEST, TARTUFFE, AND REFORM AS HE SEES FIT.
STEP TWO.
ORGON RETURNS HOME. HIS ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD TRIES TO CONVINCE HIM THAT HIS HOUSE-GUEST IS A FRAUDULENT, HYPOCRITICAL FIEND WHO THROUGH FALSE PIETY HAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF ORGON AND HIS HOME.
ORGON REFUSES TO BELIEVE WHAT HE IS TOLD NO MATTER THE PROOF.
ORGON REMAINS IN TOTAL DENIAL.
STEP THREE.
ORGON RUINS HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS. HIS SON DAMIS – ORGON GIVES ALL THAT DAMIS IS TO INHERIT TO TARTUFFE. DAMIS WANTS TO KILL TARTUFFE.
VALERE – ORGON DECIDES HE WILL BREAK HIS WORD AND INSTEAD OF GIVING VALERE THE HAND OF HIS DAUGHTER MARIANE, OFFERS IT TO TARTUFFE. MARIANE – ORGON MAKES HER SWEAR TO HONOR HIS WISHES AND THEN TELLS HER SHE IS TO FORGET VALERE AND MARRY TARTUFFE.
STEP FOUR.
MARIANE AND VALERE ARE AT ODDS.
BOTH ARE HURT AND PRIDEFUL. NEITHER WANT THE OTHER TO MARRY SOMEONE ELSE, NOR DO THEY WANT TO CONFESS THEIR HEART’S DESIRES TO EACH OTHER. ENTER DORINE, MARIANE’S LADIES MAID. SHE MAKE’S THEM LISTEN TO HER
AND THE THREE OF THEM WORK OUT A PLAN TO DELAY THE WEDDING OF MARIANE AND TARTUFFE FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. MARIANE AND VALERE ARE NO LONGER AT ODDS.
DAMIS STILL WANTS TO KILL TARTUFFE.
STEP FIVE.
ORGON IGNORE’S HIS WIFE ELMIRE’S DECLARATION THAT TARTUFFE IS AFTER HER ROMANTICALLY. HOWEVER, ORGON ALLOWS HER TO SET UP A STING OPERATION TO HAVE ORGON CATCH TARTUFFE IN THE ACT.
ALL GOES ACCORDING TO ELMIRE’S PLAN. ORGON COMES TO GRIPS WITH REALITY…
BUT REALIZES TOO LATE THAT ALL HE OWNS INCLUDING HIS DAUGHTER NOW BELONGS TO THE RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITE, TARTUFFE.
TARTUFFE GOES TO THE KING TO DEMAND ORGON’S PROPERTY BE RELINQUISHED TO HIM, BUT THE KING SAVES THE DAY BY HAVING THE EXEMPT IMPRISON THE FRAUD AND THEREBY RESTORING ORDER TO ORGON AND HIS HOUSEHOLD. VALERE AND MARIANE ARE ALLOWED TO BE MARRIED.
ORGON IS NOW HAPPY AS A CLAM!
DAMIS PROBABLY STILL WANTS TO KILL TARTUFFE.
THE END
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