The viability of the image of Jourdain
Reading the comedy of Moliere, one involuntarily thinks that the great playwright somehow mystically saw our time – the modern Jourdens, when people who are uneducated, sometimes even semi-literate seek to gain both title and power. Jourdains will never die, while there are people who believe that you can buy something that is not given by nature. In some ways, the hero of Moliere even evokes sympathy – he wants to learn something! But the way he does it, only laughs. He does not have the most important thing – the natural mind, natural common sense, which even a simple peasant has. He makes friends with people who steal from him on the sly. He accepts adventurer Dorant, because he has a title and good manners, and repels honest Kumont, because he is not a nobleman. He wears expensive but ridiculous and ornate clothes… Well, not “new Russian”
But, however ridiculous Jourdain is with his claims to the nobility, he is still above his wife, who denies education in general. Another thing is that in the desire to imitate the nobility outwardly, he dresses in ridiculous outfits, and behaves absurdly. But back to our time. Does not it remind those who are “from dirt to princes”? Unfortunately, human stupidity knows no bounds. “It’s not a place that colors a person, but a person’s place”; “Know the cricket of your pole” – these and similar proverbs are very wise. Moliere tells us: the main thing is not in title and not in good manners, behind them can be hidden hopeless stupidity and ignorance.
Unfortunately, the Jourdins lived, live and will live. They will try to buy themselves a mind, manners, a pedigree or something of that kind. But Moliere more than three hundred years ago showed what this all leads to.
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