Imaginary Invalid

Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" is a play about a hypochondriac who is so obsessed with his health and money that he ends up neglecting his family's needs to better his own.
Moliere sets up the exposition of the play in Act I by the apothecary bills Argon is reading aloud. After Toinette, the maid, then enters the scene she sarcastically makes a comment about all of the bills lying on the table. Toinette lets the audience know that Argon is a hypochondriac by rebutting everything he says about his doctors and illnesses with sarcastic comments. For instance, when Argon says, "You leave my insides alone." She comes back with, "I wish you would. You'd be a different man." She also lets the audience know by saying, "Why, if it wasn't for him you wouldn't even know you were ill," speaking of the apothecary. The main conflict of the play is Argon's unwillingness to accept that he is not ill and he is, in fact, a very healthy man. This "illness" leads to......

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