Vol. 12 No. 2 (2010)
Iuvenilia

La servante moliéresque. Toinette du Malade imaginaire: servante sensée ou Scapin au féminin?

Zsófia Mussó
Université Eötvös Loránd

Published 18-04-2011

Keywords

  • comedy,
  • Molière,
  • servant,
  • type,
  • Toinette

How to Cite

Mussó, Z. (2011). La servante moliéresque. Toinette du Malade imaginaire: servante sensée ou Scapin au féminin?. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 12(2), 449–459. https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.12.2010.2.15

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to point out that Toinette, the last servant of Molière in Le Malade Imaginaire, "The Hypochondriac", is a more complex, more unique, and less typified character than servants in his other works. During his authorship, Molière employed many different methods which can be recognized in the role of Toinette, however, inseparably. Even if her role is composed of the elements of several types, these components constitute a perfect totality.