Tartuffe was a play written by Molière. A play both revealing and comical that highlights the flaws of people and society that had supremacies, using visual jokes and other types of humor that reveal the absurdity of powerful people and French society. It was censored by King Louis XIV due to possible damage to the religious sector, but eventually, upon presentation of Molière's explanations, the play Tartuffe was performed. He did not directly make a play that offends religious sectors because he could be arrested or worse excommunicated from the Catholic Church for defying the powerful religious hierarchy. ComparisonThe 17th century of French literature was a replication of a new literary concept ranging from the noble impolite to a product of sophisticated writers with religious and legal training. Molière was a sophisticated and well-known writer who had a legal background, who studied law but devoted himself to playwriting and theater. During the transformation in the 17th century, the schools of literature, the support of the nobility, the social development of noble men, the growth of ...