ark Ages was in complete control of society. In order to live a life in the good graces of God, members of society needed to follow the dictates of whatever the Church deemed appropriate. The Church was able to use this great influence to control great wealth and command great power. Naturally, with such concentration of power, came elements of corruption, and its handmaid, hypocrisy. The upheaval of the Reformation with the blossoming of Renaissance ideas independent of the Church provided an environment where this hypocrisy was beginning to be exposed. The use of the stature of the Church for enrichment, through practices such as the sales of indulgences, and the disparate levels of wealth between the clergy who professed to honor poverty and the poverty of those they professed to serve were ripe subjects for Moliere's satire.
             Tartuffe plays his part of the hypocrisy of the Church in many facets. Members of the household lament his constant serm
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