Week 4 Project Action Plan: Project Planning Week 4

Project Prompt:
From a piece of fiction, choose a female character on whom to focus, and create a project that discusses some of the following questions:
- What is the author's attitude towards her? (How can you tell?)
- What is your attitude towards her?
- How do. at least 2 other characters view her?
- How does she view herself?

Reading I will use to discuss the Project Prompt:
"Tartuffe," by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere)
Pages 144 - 197

I'm going to use this love story and focus on Mariane. I really enjoyed reading this play/story, and I think her character would be very interesting to write about. I would like to get more in depth about how the author, other characters (including Mariane), and myself all view her and how those views come about, because of the story and all of the twists within it. I'd also like to incorporate more about the author's view, and the time period of his time and how that might affect his writing as well as Mariane's character.

Some information I found about Moliere:
- French playwright and actor
- "considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature"
- Born into prosperous family
- 13 years as itinerant actor
- "Moliere's satires attracted criticism from moralists and the Catholic Church. Tartuffe and its attack on perceived religious hypocrisy rounded received condemnations from the Church."
- He's considered the creator of modern French comedy
- Many words/phrases used in Moliere's plays are still used in current French:
     - Tartuffe: a hypocrite, especially a hypocrite displaying affected morality or religious piety
     - Harpagon: named after the main character of The Miser, is an obsessively greedy and cheap man
     - The statue of the Commander from Don Juan is used as a model of implacable rigidly
* All information above I found on wikipedia

- "Although the sacred and secular authorities of 17th-century Franceoften combined against him, the genius of Molière finally emerged to win him acclaim. Comedy had a long history before Molière, who employed most of its traditional forms, but he succeeded in inventing a new style that was based on a double vision of normal and abnormal seen in relation to each other—the comedy of the true opposed to the specious, the intelligent seen alongside the pedantic. An actor himself, Molière seems to have been incapable of visualizing any situation without animating and dramatizing it, often beyond the limits of probability. Though living in an age of reason, he had the good sense not to proselytize but rather to animate the absurd, as in such masterpieces as Tartuffe, L’École des femmes, Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and many others. It is testimony to the freshness of his vision that the greatest comic artists working centuries later in other media, such as Charlie Chaplin, have been compared to Molière."
*Found on Britannica.com

Using the information above, I plan on incorporating it into my post for next week, and expanding a little bit and using more quotes on each of the prompt bulletpoints.