Through the character of cantankerous truth-lover, Alceste, Molière discusses human helplessness to stand up to the great challenge of truth, questioning the place where misanthropy and sincerity meet, trying to determine the ultimate outcomes of personal consistency.

Torbica did not follow the original blindly, and the play gradually shifts from a comedy to a tragedy in which everybody ends up as a loser in a frantic finale. Alceste as a social idiot consistently disagreeing to a saving compromise, and Torbica, insisting on the impossibility of misanthropic position in the social environment impregnated with hypocrisy, takes his main hero to self-isolation. Distancing his direction of The Misanthrope from the casual social comedy, Torbica, in a refined way, takes it back to precise and current issues and the fullness of acting accomplishments.