If you could take a time machine back as a visitor to one of the countries orempires described in Chapter 21 during their days of absolute rule, which one would you choose? Why? What would you want to see and learn on your visit?
1. Moliere’s play Le Bourgeois Gentilhommeis a satire. It pokes fun at the weaknesses and foibles of the aristocracy and of the middle class social climbers such as Mr. Jourdain who want to become aristocrats. Your textbook author points out, however, that the presentation of human nature in this, as in all of Moliere’s plays, is […]
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Date: February 21st, 2015