um that was being studied in France at this time, something witch Rabelais was satirizing. The next chapter, chapter 15, starts off by telling of Gargantua’s father not happy with the education that his son was getting. His father feels that his son, being perfect in everything, needed other teachers in which he could bloom in the area of humanity. After some brief stints with other teachers they finally agree on the great powerbrain to lead the giants education. They would travel to the great city of Paris where everything was going on. Paris at this time was the only place for high standing people to be, if you weren’t in Paris you were nothing but a peasant to the arrogant people of France. The story than continues with the education of the giant. It tells the tail of what an upper class individual does while learning the way of becoming a humanist. While this process is taking place it tells us of the diet of exuberant upper class. Gargantua eats constantly the rich foods Paris has to offer, and indulges so heavy and frequent we can see that the author is showing how people of this status didn’t care about the lower class suffering. The great giant surely lives like a king in this story drinking wine, playing games and sitting around talking about how smart and great he is. Obviously this an attempt to further insult the upper class’s way of life. The church finally enters the story with Gargantua trying to repay a monk who helped him and his father in the war against the Picrochole. The giant offers him prestigious positions in a couple of different towns, the monk only answers by saying if I wanted those positions I could have them anytime I wanted. Rabelais is showing the corrupt power of the church and how it can attain anything it really wanted. It goes on to tell us of how big and luxurious this place is that the church has made for itself. The Abbey of desire was filled with ev...
