By comparing and contrasting the two stories, "Journey to the West" and "Tartuffe", this essay will attempt to compare and contrast the function of the endings of these two works. "Journey to the West" is a story composed of one hundred chapters that explains how a Tripitaka, a monk, with three disciplines travels to India to recover sacred sculptures and seek enlightenment, while "Tartuffe" is a short comedy about Orgon, head of the family. , being manipulated by Tartuffe, a religious hypocrite, and Orgon was eventually enlightened. This essay will further show how both stories shared similar endings, while also highlighting their unique differences. Enlightenment may be able to explain through text or words, but being able to truly receive or understand it, we must learn our path into it. . “Journey to the West” and “Tartuffe”, were both created in two different times and in different regions, but both stories shared a similar ending and moral that are receiving enlightenment first hand. "The Journey to the West" was written around 1500 to 1582 in Asia, while "Tartuffe" was written around 1622 to 1673 in Europe. In "Journey to the West", Tripitaka, and three of his disciplines were sent to India to retrieve the sacred sculptures and help them become Buddha, known as enlightenment. During their journey, they had experienced different situations and supposedly each situation was supposed to help them improve, which they were all enlightened to in the end. In "Tartuffe", Orgon was manipulated by Tartuffe, a religious hypocrite, to whom Orgon had offered all of his possessions to Tartuffe. Elmire, wife of Orgon, had seduced Tartuffe for... half of the paper... h the stories, in these ways, share endings and moral, religious purposes, are distinct and individual: "The Journey to the West" and " Tartuffe,” were both created in two different times and in different regions, but both stories shared similar endings and morals that are receiving first-person enlightenment. But they had different ways of conveying their messages and also different intentions for writing their stories. Both stories end on highly emotional, albeit different, notes. Wu Cheng'en used the third-person view to give a general idea of ​​each situation in the story, yet Moliere used the technique of prosody to control the words so that the sound of the work complements its expression of emotions and ideas. This essay had shown the similarity and difference of the endings of these two masterpieces and how they shared the moral.