Tartuffe

What set of values does Mme. Pernelle represent?

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Madame Pernelle is dead set on the values that are represented falsely by Tartuffe: namely, the humble service of the church. One of the main individual values is that of generosity, which even Pernelle eventually realizes is absent from Tartuffe's true character.