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…showed last 75 words of 796 total…moderate and against excess and obsession in all things. In Tartuffe, he has used Orgon as an example of how the obsessive need to believe can cause man to be taken in by those who would cloak themselves in, and manipulate with, those beliefs. The play is comic because Moliere shows how silly and foolish Orgon looks, when his sincere belief is contrasted with the truth, which is seen by all but his blind self.