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The primary act of carnival is the mock crowning and subsequent de-crowning of a carnival king. It is a "dualistic ambivalent ritual" that typifies the inside-out world of carnival and the "joyful relativity of all structure and order". [3] The act sanctifies ambivalence toward that which is normally considered absolute, single, or monolithic.
The rough draft of it appeared in August 1854. The play's second version, a three-act drama now called Live Not As You Would Like To was set in the 18th century Moscow, in the days of the traditional Russian Maslenitsa pancake carnival. [1] In November 1854 the play was completed and on December 3 premiered at the Maly Theatre.
Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance.
Both characters wear a headdress which makes it clear that they are allegorical characters. Carnival wears a poultry pie with the legs of a crow sticking out. Lent wears a beehive, a common symbol for the church at the time. [3] Carnival is a fat butcher, with his pouch of knives, straddling a beer barrel on a blue sled.
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The carnival atmosphere holds the lower strata of life most important, as opposed to higher functions (thought, speech, soul) which were usually held dear in the signifying order. At carnival time, the unique sense of time and space causes individuals to feel they are a part of the collectivity, at which point they cease to be themselves.