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Illustration by Gustave Doré

Illustration by Gustave Doré. ADVICE TO READERS

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Illustration by Gustave Doré

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  1. Illustration by Gustave Doré

  2. ADVICE TO READERS Good friends who come to read this book,Strip yourselves first of affectation;Do not assume a pained, shocked look,For it contains no foul infection,Yet teaches you no great perfection,But lessons in the mirthful art,The only subject for my heart.When I see grief consume and rot You, mirth’s my theme and tears are not,For laughter is man’s proper lot. (36)

  3. Menippean satire: satire characterized by its loose mixture of genres, styles, and voices

  4. Grandgousier and Gargamelle and the drunkards

  5. Menippean satire: satire characterized by its loose mixture of genres, styles, and voices

  6. Menippean satire: satire characterized by its loose mixture of genres, styles, and voices • indirect satire through narrative  voyage in an upside-down world •  multiple targets •  characters are ridiculous mouthpieces for • various ideological or political positions

  7. the grotesque: in literature, the grotesque is a mode of representing the body and its functions, which is characterized by exaggeration and distortion; grotesque representations induce disgust but also pleasure in the reader

  8. sketches by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1490

  9. Illustration by Gustave Doré

  10. Chapter 57. How the Thelemites were governed, and of their manner of living. All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good; they ate, drank, laboured, and slept, when they had a mind to it and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none constrained them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. There was only one rule to be observed, DO WHAT THOU WILT because men […] have naturally an instinct and spur that prompts them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint, are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.

  11. Illustration by Gustave Doré

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