Word: argan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1895-1895
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Beline, Argan's second wife, assists in deluding him, by her mock anxiety and feigned affection. In reality she hopes for his death, that she may inherit his fortune...
...central character of the piece is Argan, a middle-aged man, whose ruling passion is his selfish fear of death. Though in robust health, in "insultingly robust health," as one critic has said, Argan has always some imaginary ill, for which he consults quack physicians. The chief of these, M. Purgon, holds his cowardly patient in perfect subjection, threatening him with the most horrible maladies if he neglects to take the various doses prescribed...
Angelique falls in love with Cleante, a handsome young fellow, but is dismayed to learn that her father has promised her hand to a young doctor, Diafoirus. Argan is bent upon getting a doctor into the family, as it would be so economical and convenient, but the stepmother, Beline, naturally opposes any marriage, with a sharp eye for Argan's money...
...Argan, H. Schurz...
...Argan, H. Schurz...