Carnivalesque

Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of carnivalesque is quite interesting and can be seen many times throughout Chapter 10 of "One hundred years of Solitude". One of the main ideas presented by Bakhtin was that carnival, although usually associated with a crowd, humor, and equalness through all social classes, Bakhitin says this celebration is more like a "Feast of Fools". However, in the novel what is being celebrated is the coronation of Remedios the Beauty, so there is in fact a difference in levels of importance. This is a moment in which like Bakhtin explains, the world has turned around and the occurring events are completely unexpected. On page 200, "Aureliano Segundo had satisfied at last his dream of dressing up like a tiger and was walking along the wild throng". In other words this carnival is just like a feast of fools in the aspect of what Aureliano Segundo had dressed up as. Chapter 10 is not the only place in this novel where the idea of carnivalesque is brought up.