The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Assignment

How is Argan set up as a kind of Pantalone figure? What would you call the kind of laughter he evokes?
And the association of money and excrement?
How does he use his stick?
How is Toinette set up as a female Harlequin?
How is she different from Goldoni’s Truffaldino?
How does Beline fit in with the Master-Servant duo?
And with the theme of retaining and releasing money?
What does the plot hinge on? And what is the misunderstanding that at first complicates the plot?
What other interests complicate the plot?
What kind of character is Angelique?
What does Toinette represent in terms of Angelique?
Who is the Notary in the scheme of things?
What is Cleante’s mask?
And how does the masking move the play along – look at the play within the play structure
How does Molière make fun of the Drs. Diafoirus?
Choose some of Thomas’s lines and analyze them: what kind of language does he use? What kind of images? How sure is he of himself, in fact?