Satire in Moliere’s Tartuffe, Voltaire’s Candide, and Swift’s A Modest

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines caustic remark as literary work retentiveness up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn. Besides this definition satire can also be seen as the particular literary carriage of making possible the improvement of humanity and its institutions. In the three plant Molieres Tartuffe, Voltaires Candide, and Swifts A Modest project the authors indirectly criticize and ridicule human behavior and guinea pigistics except with the oddment for improving these faults rather than just demolishing them.In Molieres Tartuffe, although numerous things and behaviors are satirized, the play focuses mainly on the issue of religious hypocrisy. Whereas Tartuffe is the writ large hypocrite and antagonist who represents those members of decree who preach religious piety but do not themselves live by the morals they try to event upon others, Orgon is the complex character through whom this religious hypocrisy is channeled. In the etymon of the play it is hinted that Orgon is perceived as an honorable and respected man by his family and friends, but then through out the play the question raises wherefore he has become such an absurd and unusual person. It seems that Orgon is the type of character who can no longer participate successfully in society and who then retires from society and attacks it. This can also be seen in his mother, Madame Pernelle. Orgon, having reached slowly middle age, needs to attach himself to a religious person, who beli...