An incredible game, but starry seduction

This very famous play of seemed implausible at first sight. When reading the criticisms of Marivaux in the eighteenth, I discovered that this reproach had been thus avancé.C'est him an impression that has survived the centuries. Indeed, how can one believe that two people we wanted to marry each other have the same idea, that of cross-dressing. Dorante and Silvia therefore decide to change social conditions together posing as servants, but now the mind, education, elegance can not betray what they really are.

Despite this initial implausibility that put me a little about the subject, I loved this game of seduction played by the characters giving birth to the love and desire with their little comedy. The game is actually, if you think about it, the first source of enjoyment, one that brings out the flames of passion.Silvia itself admits to his father and explains that these preliminary lovers were essential to their happiness -which would have been without this fade- well: "If you knew how all this will make our friendly union, he can never remember our history without loving me (...) You founded our happiness for life. leaving me, this is a unique wedding. "

The writer, starring Admixture banter this game, seduction through language and theatricality - transports us into a playful world where freshness is mixed feelings. I still regret, however, that love does not rise to a crescendo, it is a foregone conclusion from the first lines: DORANTE was immediately snapped up by Silvia. Marivaux does not revolutionize the concepts that much of the time. Noble transvestites remain no less noble. It is not beyond social condition so easily. It is embedded in our ways, our words, our actions and our education.

The outcome, however, seemed far more successful than the exposure. Some quotes remain in our minds as the sentence DORANTE addressed to Silvia: "The merit worth birth." This triumph of love over the birth, although it has observed in a somewhat easy, is nice to look at and écouter.Un good entertainment and an essential dive into what the banter and drama of the man who coined the phrase remained so famous today of "falling in love", modeled on that of "getting sick". Love it not a disease you never heals?