te correct, for example, in his estimation of the fatuousness of prevailing higher society where marriage is concerned. The fact that he turns his preoccupation into what might be termed an excess of virtue does not prevent Moliere from putting an observation of the hypocrisy of aristocratic courtship his mouth.
Don't imitate all those flirtatious jakes
Who make the town ring with their escapades;
And guard against the Evil One's attacks,
Who uses handsome fops to make girls lax.
Even Moliere's Don Juan has moments of clarity about how the world works. Typically, the most valuable of his insights have little to do with love and sex, but he is not a stupid anti hero where other issues are concerned, as when he holds forth regarding the medical profession and Sgnarelle's fraudulent practice of it. Anyone who has paid for a physician's holiday in Fiji with unnecessary tests or surgery will recognize the sentiment.
Just why shouldn't you have the same privileges as all the
other doctors? They have nothing more to
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