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Imaginary InvalidMolieres The Imaginary Invalid is a gyp about a hypochondriac who is so obsessed with his health and money that he ends up neglecting his familys needs to better his own.      Moliere sets up the exposition of the play in Act I by the p mischance roller bills Argon is reading aloud. After Toinette, the maid, then enters the scene she pungentally makes a comment about all of the bills lying on the table. Toinette lets the audience be intimate that Argon is a hypochondriac by rebutting everything he says about his furbish ups and illnesses with sarcastic comments. For instance, when Argon says, You leave my insides alone. She comes back with, I wish you would. Youd be a different man. She also lets the audience know by saying, Why, if it wasnt for him you wouldnt even know you were ill, oratory of the apothecary. The primary(prenominal) engagement of the play is Argons unwillingness to accept that he is not ill and he is, in fact, a very h ealthy man. This illness leads to the selfishness that he shows his family, especially his daughter Angelica. Later in Act I his illnesses show to have relevance to the conflict when she speaks of Cleante, the man she loves. Cleante is not a doctor therefore, Argon will not give his blessings for Angelica to marry him.     The conflict of the play was that Argon would not give his blessings for the marriage of his daughter, Angelica, and the man she loves, Cleante. The main characters tangled in the conflict besides Angelica and Cleante is Argon, the problem, Toinette and Argons brother, Beralde, which resolve the conflict in the end. Argon is involved, as stated earlier, because he will not give his blessings on the marriage. Toinette and Beralde were involved in the soundness to the conflict because they cared about Angelica and her happiness. I believe that Beralde was more involved in the resolution because he felt that his brother was going uttermost wit h his hypochondria, but still cared for Angelicas happiness. Argon seemed to over-step the line when he tried to ruin the lives of his daughter just for his mental well being. The step taken to see that Angelica does not have to marry a man that she simply does not want to marry lead up to the climax of the play. Argon finally realizes who cares about him and who doesnt when he overhears his wife, Beline, speaking of his death and then Angelica.