The School for Wives is another play by Moliere. The play is about how a man, Arnolphe, tries to create the perfect wife for himself and how his grand scheme goes into complete disarray. Arnolphe is overly obssessed with the “evil” of woman, on how they trick men, manipulate men, and commit sins to further their own happiness even if it meant dishonoring their husbands, and how the smarter woman are the worse off for the man. Arnolphe buys a four year old girl, Agnes, from a poor  woman. Arnolphe has the girl raised to be as dumb as possible due to a strict (non)learning regimen that makes her ignorant of worldy happenings and possessions, and hides her away, so that she would ultimately only love him and be his wife. Arnolphe goes away for a trip, and another man, Horace, causes Agnes to fall in love with him, after an incidental meeting and scheming of his own. Due to Horace’s ignorance, Horace confides in Arnolphe that he is in love with Agnes and that she is being locked up by a despicable man. Arnolphe, with knowledge of the happenings between Agnes and Horace, try to thwart the love affair between Agnes and Horace, without Horace knowing that Arnolphe is the man holding Agnes captive. Arnolphe’s schemes all backfire, and he is in disarray. Unfortunately, the most I could get out of the ending of play is that Arnolphe commands Agnes to go to a room and there is no complete ending, as far as I was able to find.                                                                                                                There are some similarities between Tartuffe and The School for Wives. Both plays go about with this level of absurdity. In The School for Wives, Arnolphe is being completely absurd with his scheme to create this perfect wife and how all woman are “evil” in some way, and in Tartuffe, the way Madame Pernelle and Orgon are obssessed about Tartuffe. Chrysalde reminds me of Cleante, full of proper and wise words. Alain and Georgette remind me of Dorine, rather free willed and impudent at times.Also, when they are about to be punished, they finally do what is proper, when comparing Arnolphe threatening not to feed one of them for four days compared to Orgon theatening to slap Dorine. Arnolphe gives off the feel of Orgon, according to the anthology, in that he is trying to have full control over Agnes, with the way she is raised and the maxims that he wants her to follow. Some of the maxims reminded me of the first scene in Tartuffe, where Madame Pernelle complains of the affairs of Elmire, in a social setting. Both plays feature the main male character as wealthy individuals whose plans for a marriage goes into disarray.