The Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin was the first scholar who introduced the term “carnival” and conceptualized it into literary field. In his acclaimed work, Rabelais and His World, Bakhtin discusses in great detail the sixteenth century French writer Rabelais’ works, Gargantua and Pantagruel. In Rabelais’ works, the two main characters Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, are characterized through exaggeration of their behavior and grotesque body images, among other things. For example, the giant Gargantua was born from his mother’s left ear. “As soon as he was born, he cried out not as other babes use to do, miez, miez, miez, but with a high, sturdy, and big voice shouted about, Some drink, some drink, some drink, as inviting all the world to drink with him” (Rabelais 9). And because of his huge body, “his shoes were taken up four hundred and six ells of blue crimson velvet…his coat were taken up eighteen hundred ells of blue gillyflowers…his girdle was made of three hundred ells and a half of silken serge, half white and half blue…his purse was made of the cod of an elephant” (Rabelais 11). In the world of carnival, everything is possible and reasonable. Exaggeration and excessiveness were only a small part of the carnival.