Rosario continues to compare Carnival to James DeMonaco’s The Purge (2013) which discusses an annual 12-hour period in which all crime is lawful across the world, including murder. The Purge should “purge” humanity from its most basic instincts while reducing crime and strengthening the economy of the country for the remainder of the year. This would establish the same ‘cathartic’ quality as the Carnival festivities and follows Aristotle’s purging technique discussed in Poetics.

What we see in the film universe is mass violence and fear, the use of the Purge by the rich and powerful people to prey on vulnerable communities – reinstating Bristol’s initial description of Carnival, where the oppressed attack the oppressed, and where no real progress has ever been made. This would thus support the notion that the status quo is reinstated by Carnival and its anarchistic, ‘ purge’-like qualities.
The anarchistic characters who prey on the weak, pure and ‘good’ in Mankind, Twelfth Night and The Purge act in groups. There is a redistribution of accountability that arises in large groups, in which aggression is viewed as the actions of the collective rather than the action of the individual. Individuals (especially human individuals such as Sir Toby, Feste and Maria) may not feel responsible for actions that are performed within a community. Whereas New Guise, Nowadays, Nought and Titivillus are pure evil.

Other factors, such as anonymity allowed through concealment of identification, by the use of mask and costume often lead to actions that we would usually prevent outside a carnivalesque setting – such as Viola’s actions while disguised as Cesario (a woman working a mans place in court). We see this in Twelfth Night and The Purge. This is supported by Ulrich von Hutten’s Letters of Obscure Men, which Bristol quotes in Carnival and Theatre stating; There should be a difference between Jews and doctors; it is a distortion of sacred theology … There’s no reason that a Jew who’s a traitor and an enemy of God should walk like a doctor of holy theology.

To Conclude, it would be highly plausible through my research and an