Don Juan de Molière
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The hypocrisy of others:
What is hypocrisy in general? A hypocrite is a man who intentionally appears to be what he is not in
reality.
What does it mean for a virtuous man to be a hypocrite? It means that the love that this man is
supposed to have for the beautiful and the good isn’t the sole or prime motive of his “virtuous” actions.
The virtue of most men is the result of their fear or cowardice.
It is not truly virtue.
Are fear and cowardice motives able to make a man virtuous? No.
E.g.
Tiger Woods.
A man who is
fearful coward will fail to be either virtuous or vicious.
He won’t be anything.
Don Juan’s sincerity:
Is Don Juan a hypocrite? No.
He lies, but he is not a hypocrite, … until the very end of the play.
He is
not a hypocrite because
He do e s n’t mind h aving a b a d reput ation a s long a s his b a d reput ation do e s not pr ev ent him from
e njoying wh at h e e njoys mo st: phy sic al b e a uty.
He h a s th e cour ag e th e fac e th e terrible truth a b o ut hum a n exist e nc e a n d live a c c ording to it.
What is the terrible truth about human existence that Don Juan thinks he has the courage to face
up to and that other men run away from? The fact that, in reality, there is no true love, nothing on the
surface of this planet that can be loved eternally.
The question raised by Molière in Don Juan is the following: Is Don Juan a man to be envied? Is he
right in his evaluation of human existence or is he wrong?
Don Juan as an erotic man:
What is a life to be envied? What is a happy life? A life of freedom, the life of the free man who feels
comfortable doing only what he wants to do, who has no regrets and no remorse, and who doesn’t do
anything because he has to, because it is his duty.
In other words? The most enviable life that we can think of is the life of an erotic man, i.e.
the life of a
man who is driven exclusively by desires for good things, who never acts out of cowardice or fear or
dread of bad things.
Is Don Juan the erotic man par excellence? Is he a man to be envied? To know if Don Juan is the
erotic man par excellence, we have to answer the following question: Based on what you’ve read so
far, where does Don Juan get his pleasures from? What are his motives? Does Don Juan sometimes
act out of fear or cowardice or regret? Or is he always acting out of some positive desire for
something?
Don Juan’s motives:
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Liens utiles
- comment le poète Charles Baudelaire, tout en gardant les principales caractéristiques du personnage de Don Juan de Molière, lui confère une dimension romantique.
- Don Juan, Acte IV Scène 7Introduction : Après l’interdiction de représentation de sa pièce Tartuffe, en 1664, Molière doit monter rapidement une pièce pour faire vivre ses comédiens.
- «Titre», Dans deux mois notre troupe de théâtre jouera Don Juan de Molière.
- Molière- Don Juan
- don juan de molière