The importance of Jean-Baptiste Moliere in world literature is very difficult to exaggerate. He combined the best traditions of French folk theatre and advanced ideas of humanism in his work and created a new kind of drama — high Comedy, thus opening a new page in the history of not only French but also world theatre. Moliere outlined the ways for all the subsequent development of drama. His work served as a bridge between two great cultural epochs — the Revival and Enlightenment.
Comedy "Tartuffe" not only has not lost its relevance, today it is perhaps even more topical than ever: it is enough to pay attention to the high degree of credulity of people, which shamelessly abuse a variety of swindles and charlatans for material gain. Various sects are multiplying and flourishing, poisoning with their insane teachings the common sense of citizens, subjecting their will and consciousness again in order to take away their well-being. This issue was at the time of Moliere, it is now. Molière concentrated in his stage character all the distinctive features of the hypocrite, showed from close-up, threw a spotlight on them and made the audience remember them forever and then unmistakably recognize their speeches and actions of public figures in life, in the behavior of people around them, sometimes in their friends, maybe even in friends.
The value of the play lies in the fact that it boldly and vividly exposed the reactionary role of the clergy, created a generalized image of Tartuffe, which became a common expression of hypocrisy and hypocrisy.