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    ignorant and self-centered in the second half of the third book of Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel. Montaigne not only indicates similar possible problems of the authority as Rabelais does, but also provides corresponding solutions to such problems in his On Educating Children. I will argue that, basing on Montaigne’s solutions, one can convert unhelpful, ignorant and self-centered authorities in Gargantua and Pantagruel into ones that are so beneficial and significant that can effectively promote

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    Learning Knowledge by Understanding Yingfeng Xia In Francois Rabelais’ book Gargantua and Pantagruel, Pantagruel invites a theologian, a doctor of medicine, a philosopher, and a lawyer to give his friend, Panurge, advices on marriage. These professionals approach to discovering the truth by using their field of knowledge respectively. However, their way of utilizing knowledge is contradicting to Montaigne’s idea on discovering truth. In Montaigne’s essay On educating children, he implies that

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    acquiring knowledge Cicero said, “What you know is of no use, what you do not know does great harm.” Montaigne would and Rabelais would agree with Cicero’s quote. In their views on education through Montaigne’s The Essays, and Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, we would be able to tell how the similarities of their ideas on acquiring knowledge in students’ perspectives. Montaigne’s major argument on education was that as a student, he/she would have to learn and think in a positive and active

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    Education from Rabelais’ Perspective The Renaissance altered centuries of thought in Europe. One figured who contributed to revolutionizing though was the author Francois Rabelais who wrote comedic critiques of his world. In his stories of Gargantua and Pantagruel the author critiques many aspects of sixteenth century life– especially the education system. He examines previous educational attitudes, as well as those during his time. As a humanist thinker, Rabelais values education and reform. The author

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    Authority of tutors and learning process of student intermingle in the acquirement of knowledge and experience. Rabelais portrays authority in Gargantua and Pantagruel as several reflective and thought-provoking learning processes in regard of Panurge’s inquiry. Pantagruel and various experts in their own fields, including theologian, physician, and philosopher, provide their own comprehensions with the topics Panurge concerns. Similarly, Montaigne depicts tutor in the Essays as a role to offer guidance

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    In Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, his character Friar John seems, in a sense, the embodiment of many of the controversial ideas presented in the book. Rabelais was a monk, but he was also a writer, a physician, and a scholar whose interests and studies ranged widely, and his characters and ideas often seem more humanist and innovative--and sometimes even shocking--than pious and orthodox. Humanism emphasizes man’s inherent goodness, as well as a positive outlook on human potential, worth, and

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    have successfully carried the principles and functions of it. Chapter 1 presents an overview of the fundamental notions, characteristics and functions that Mikthail Bakhtin derives to be the Carnivalesque Grotesque from Francois Rabelais’s ‘Gargantua and Pantagruel’. Chapter 2 examines the link between the Carnivalesque Grotesque - specifically Grotesque Realism - and Georges Bataille’s ‘Base Materialism. Chapter 3 will introduce Jean Baudrillard’s ‘The system of Objects’ and the functions of advertising

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    Being a fan of political satire and comics, I was naturally drawn to the subject matter and unique aesthetics of the caricatures from the movie Conflict and Resistance. Garqantua in particular, made by Honore Daumier in 1831, it depicts the French King Louis Phillippe as this enormous beast of a man, to whom the people must constantly feed in order to please. The name Garqantua comes from a book published by the author Rabelais, which tells a tale of a giant king with an insatiable appetite and who

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    In the title of her poem “Guys like Gauguin” Marsh refers to Gauguin as a ‘guy’ which is closely followed by a sarcastic ‘thanks Bougainville’ without capitalising the thanks. Together the techniques of anaphora and informal language create a compounding effect, by referring to these colonisers and the direct address towards Gauguin diminishing his achievements and many other celebrated European ‘discovers’ who have exploited foreign countries through invasion. marsh being a tuvaluan and samoan

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    (Francois) Rabelais published his satirical novels Gargantua and Pantagruel (between 1532 and 1564) to criticize the French Catholic Church on social hypocrisy; about forty years later, Miguel de Cervantes completed his satirical book Don Quixote (in 1605) to show readers the absurdity of government in society. The social concerns of their time were religion and politics, which remain hot topics in today’s world. Rabelais’s books Gargantua and Pantagruel criticize the Catholic Church because it had obtained

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