Explain that integrity in the face of hypocrisy represents the main moral issue in Act 1. First, understand the meaning of integrity and hypocrisy. Then proceed with your answer.

Interestingly, Dorine is established as the arguably strongest character even in this first scene. Though she is a servant, she is the only one who is able to speak in full sentences to Madame Pernelle. All the others are interrupted before they can express an entire thought. She delivers the first attacks on Tartuffe that the family hears - she calls him a "hypocrite" guilty of engineering a "ruse" (5).

When Orgon enters the scene, the potency of Tartuffe's spell becomes immediately apparent. The exchange between him and Dorine is hilarious in performance, as he continues to ask the same question about Tartuffe and them laments the man's minor sufferings with the same exclamation. Further, the way Orgon speaks of meeting Tartuffe reveals the level of his infatuation. It is almost as though he has been seduced by the man's piety, and it is easy to imagine an actor growing starry-eyed in these long speeches of admiration.