Laughter: The Gateway to the Future

Rabelais presents laughter through its historical progression and its everlasting affect on the people living in the Middle Ages. Laughter, which once represented evil and the devil, now was transformed into a means of fighting evil and the devil. Even more importantly, after its universal acceptance, laughter provided a bridge between the social gaps of society. During the debauched and decadent feasts and carnivals, parodies that linked religious saints with sexual connotations, became beacons of …

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