Molière in "The Miser" will takes very seriously in mind "shopkeeper" who rules the new bourgeois society. Harpagon, the miser has become the paragon of stingy since his name became common to refer to any stingy. Obsessed with wealth, endless enrichment, until death, a collector in the manner of a Don Juan to the soul drained, prefers gold to his children, his cassette to the life of his children. The portrait of this miser is dark, hopeless, terrible. Achieving laugh in, gracefully moreover, noted a talent worthy of being rediscovered for its beauty. Molière is a news man. The curmudgeonly are legion, like the character of Tartuffe that we must fight with the weapons of the spirit and laughter.
Molière is a man of Liberty.