Moliere
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The major characters in Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid and Tartuffe suffer from delusions and associated symptoms that determine their frantic behavior, exaggerated misconceptions, and distorted perspectives. Their delusions subordinate intelligence, rationality, and will power and turn them into social stereotypes that satirize in comedy the excesses and compulsions of French society. Readers should discriminate, as Arthur Reber cautions, illusions, delusions, and hallucinations. Misperceptions may be merely mistakes; hallucinations are often a symptom of schizophrenia, organic lesions, or chemical distortion. Delusions, on the other hand, may be both irrational but in some ways self-serving. Thus, a person or a whole family may stand deluded against self-evident truth because they do not want to have their opinions and egos mussed up.Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" is a hypochondriac so obsessed with his real and delusory health and money difficulties that
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