Molière’s The Would-Be-Gentleman is a comical satire that reveals the various facets of human emotions and behaviour of seventeenth century Europe. Most of his comedies critique the pompous artificiality of French high society during the middle- and late seventeenth century. The characters portray farce to serious comedies of manners. France, during his time, had two distinct sections of society; the nobility or the rich, and the bourgeoisie; the middle class. Molière produced a number of satires that criticised the lifestyle of the rich and famous in France. In particular, Molière looked to tease the extravagant manner, style, and language of the French women who wanted to be distinguished from the rest, through their excessively refined taste…show more content… By including these statements in their dialogue, Molière was actually depicting the fallacy of the French society during the ancient régime. Despite being rich, Monsieur Jourdain had no knowledge on art, and because nobility mandated that people like him had to elicit such pompous attitude in society, he did so too. This point is further substantiated by Monsieur Jourdain in Scene II when he tells the…show more content… In Act II, Scene I, the distinction of class between the nobility and the bourgeoisie is portrayed by Molière explicitly, when, asked to show how to bow to salute a marchioness, he refuses his hand to the dancing master, who requests it. Dance master: How you must bow to salute a marchioness? Monsieur Jourdain: Yes, a marchioness named Dorimène. Dance master: Give me your hand. Monsieur Jourdain: No. You only have to do it, I'll remember it well. [Act II, Scene I] It would have been inappropriate for a noble person to even contemplate touching a bourgeoisie, leave alone his hand. In Act III, Scene IV, Monsieur Jourdain’s true identity is disclosed, when Madame Jourdain speaks about her husband’s affiliation toward Count Dorante; who uses his position to extract money from Jourdain. In Act IV, Scene II, Molière ridicules nobility when she tells Monsieur Jourdain that: I laugh at their quality In showing the follies of the upper class of society, and how they take advantage of the bourgeoisie for their own good, Molière exposes the insensitivity of the upper