I plan on doing one of my projects about Molière's "Tartuffe" using the following prompt: What does the work reveal about the cultural behavior contemporary to it? The project would mainly focus on the deus ex machina ending and why that ending was written the way that it was. I believe the ending is the way that it is because Moliere had to have written it with his audience in mind. He was trying to create a play with an ending that the king would enjoy viewing. I chose this topic since I read "Tartuffe" before and the ending really bothered me due to how lazy it seemed. There's simply no build up or signs that this ending would have occurred, magically solving every problem the cast of characters had despite being backed into a corner with no foreseeable solution. I have found two sources that I feel might be helpful when working on this project since they address what audience Moliere had when the play debuted.
http://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/english287/sg-Moliere-Tartuffe-politics.htm
https://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides2/Tartuffe.html
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