La femme savante

"La Femme Savante" is a comedy by the French playwright Molière that satirizes the obsession with learning and intellectual pretension among the 17th-century upper class. The play humorously depicts a woman, healthily proud of her education, whose exaggerated self-importance and misleading knowledge lead to chaos and comic misunderstandings. It highlights the absurdity of valuing superficial knowledge over genuine understanding and questions societal attitudes toward education and pretension. Overall, it’s a witty critique of vanity and the social dynamics surrounding education during Molière’s time.