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[SPEC] The Pious Flea and Molière's Tartuffe
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ajenteks
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 		[SPEC] The Pious Flea and Molière's Tartuffe
[spec]The Comedy: http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/952/974894/dlfiles/tartuffe.html

Quote:
Orgon, character in Tartuffe:
Ah! if you had only seen him when I first met him, you would feel for him the same love that I have. He came every day to church, and with gentle looks knelt down straight before me on both his knees. He attracted the attention of the whole congregation by the ardour with which, wrapped in saintly ecstasy, he sent up his prayer to Heaven. He sighed deeply, and every moment humbly kissed the ground. When I went out, he would steal quickly before me to offer me holy water at the door. Having heard through his servant, who imitates him in everything, of his poverty and who he is, I made him small presents, but he, with the greatest modesty, always returned part of it: "It is too much," he would say, "too much by half, I do not deserve your pity;" and when I refused to take it back again, he went, before my eyes, to distribute it to the poor. At last Heaven moved me to take him into my house, and since then everything has been prospering here. I see that he reproves everything, and, with regard to my wife, takes extreme care of my honour. He warns me of the people who cast loving eyes upon her, and is a dozen times more jealous of her than I am. You would never believe how far he carries his pious zeal. He accuses himself of sin for the slightest thing imaginable; a mere trifle is enough to shock him; so much so, that the other day he blamed himself for having caught a flea while at his prayers, and for having killed it with too much wrath.


The relationships between the characters in Tartuffe(Pious Flea & SP; Tartuffe & Mariane) & our story, and the themes of deception & truth seem to compliment each other quite well. [/spec]

Sorry if this is trout ;P
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 		No trout, but not obvious to me, either. Don't take 20 pages, but would you care to explain a little more than just quoting a fortuitous appearance of two words in a paragraph of prose?
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 		it seems like a good thought, and something worth looking into. But my personal experience says not to stretch too far for answers, and I feel this to somewhat be a stretch.
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 		Interesting spec, but I agree that it's likely a stretch. However, you got me thinking.

There's a Grimm's fairytale called, "The Abbot & the Flea". The flea impresses the abbot with his piety so much, that the abbot agrees to hear the "pious" flea's confession before killing him. The flea takes this opportunity to fly away.

Does this seem to connect in any way?

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