"La Dispute" is a French play that explores the nature of love and fidelity through an 18th-century social experiment orchestrated by a prince and his court. The experiment involves raising four children — two boys and two girls — in isolation from the world and each other until adolescence, after which they are introduced to one another for the first time to determine whether infidelity is an innate human trait. The play unfolds as a comedy of manners, with the characters falling in and out of love while the observers debate and analyze their behaviors, ultimately leaving the audience to ponder the complexities of human relationships and the eternal question of whether infidelity is a product of nature or nurture.

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