Review of the Neoclassic, Romantic, Transcendental, and Modern Periods of Writing

<Tab/>Literature as we know it today is completely different than that of 400 years ago. During the time when Moliere was being criticized by the church for writing Tartuffe, nobody would have ever thought that such grotesque stories such as O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find would ever be socially accepted. Not only do people and societal views change over time, but literature as well.
<Tab/>Moliere's satirical play Tartuffe is an excellent example of Neoclassicism at its best. In the play, written entirely in couplets, the young hypocrite Tartuffe takes adv…